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The BBC do definitely make and take profits from their productions.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/top-gear-bbc-j...

The key is, I think, that a UK resident should not have to pay anything (other than the license fee) or be subject to advertising to enjoy BBC content.

So something produced for a UK audience can be sold outside the UK and the profits used by the BBC to make more content.



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