Surely this would actually save loads of public sector jobs and especially cuts for the poor by councils.

Value ?

BBC 1 - £5 bn
BBC 2 - £3 bn
BBC 3+4 - £2 bn
NEWS - £2 bn
Radio 1 - £1 bn
Radio 2 - £1 bn
Website - £1 bn
Sites - £1 bn

I think around £20bn would be a conservative estimate.

This would help massively the debt crisis and be very popular with everyone.

Surely this is a better bet than the Post Office for making cash ?

I'm very pro-BBC but I wouldn't mind seeing BBC3 and 4 go. BBC3 is a shocking mess - it doesn't even know what it is for! BBC4 has some excellent output, but that output should be on BBC2. The stronger BBC4 gets, the weaker BBC2 gets. BBC4 is a self-consciously elitist channel, and the BBC shouldn't be trying to serve an elite. The BBC is about bringing the best to the many. Sky Arts shows that the market can sustain a commercial channel that perpetuates such a cultural niche. The BBC has never been primarily about giving people what they already know they want - but that's what BBC4 does. It's the reversal of what BBC2 was set up to do.

BR wrote:
Surely this would actually save loads of public sector jobs and especially cuts for the poor by councils.

Value ?

BBC 1 - £5 bn
BBC 2 - £3 bn
BBC 3+4 - £2 bn
NEWS - £2 bn
Radio 1 - £1 bn
Radio 2 - £1 bn
Website - £1 bn
Sites - £1 bn

I think around £20bn would be a conservative estimate.

This would help massively the debt crisis and be very popular with everyone.

Surely this is a better bet than the Post Office for making cash ?

I vehemently disagree BR.

There are eager buyers for the BBC..James Murdoch and other destroyers.

You want advert riddled TV of the lowest kind...sell the BBC.
You want US crap and permanent cheaply made reality shows...sell the BBC.

I can tell you now-it will not happen. For one thing..if Murdoch doesn't get it he won't let anyone else.
Why ?...just as the dimwits in Oz wanted to sell the government station The ABC, big Kerry Packer kicked up such a stink because he realised his own TV network would loose millions in advettsing to a privatised ABC until they were driven down to his low rent entertainment level.

Besides..I paid taxes and TV Licence in GB for 40 years and I part own the BBC and I don't want more of our state owned assets sold.
There is only buyer eager to sell the BBC...Murdoch. You should worry.