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Which comprised the resources and staff of the former, but with the shareholders paid off, and now becoming a chartered 'not for profit' organisation. It had a monopoly, not because others could not finance competing. Capital requirements prior to television, were not great for radio broadcasting. The mele of broadcasters emerging in USA is something that did not occur here because the GPO would not licence them to transmit. They had over 100 applications for such licences in the first few years of broadcasting. Initially, they imposed a complete ban, citing interference with military comms. They relented but asked the six big operators to be partners in a single operation, and that was what became the British Broadcasting Company.