The BBC’s dismantling has officially begun, some five months since the UK government announced that TV license fees would be frozen for two years, before plans to abolish the BBC’s primary revenue stream entirely by 2027. Rather than reading the news as the beginning of the end, we prefer to think of it as a natural extension of the British public broadcaster’s trendsetting streaming pedigree – one spearheaded by a technology R&D department revered the world over. While the BBC will be a shell of its former glory ten years from now, other broadcasters experiencing similar financial setbacks are not in such positions of strength – with the BBC benefiting from global audiences and distribution channels ready and waiting for…