While not without its flaws, the BBC has been an international icon for online video services. Faultline’s pages have waxed lyrical for over a decade about how BBC iPlayer set a precedent far and wide for live and on-demand streaming portals, while the BBC’s international business – BBC Studios – has exceeded expectations to become a bastion of content production, licensing, and distribution overseas. Soon, however, the great British Broadcasting Corporation’s native presence will be reduced to BBC iPlayer, and BBC iPlayer alone – in some guise or another. These are the plans revealed this week by BBC director general Tim Davie, announcing that TV and radio broadcast will be gradually switched off over the next decade as the BBC…