Which they sold at an £80m loss. How many license fees is that?

If anybody is still wondering why BBC Worldwide would block its contents from viewers in the UK, it seems reactions like these are what they're trying to prevent.

Yes, they block the websites from the UK because people being outraged at a ("commercial" arm of a) state broadcaster losing £80m is a complete overreaction.

BBC Worldwide is a separate commercial organisation. It does not get to spend any of your license-fee.

None. BBC Worldwide is a separate entity that neither takes money from license fees nor produces anything specifically for license fee payers.

Whiskers - it seems I can't reply to you, but according to the top-rated comment on this page:

The majority of the operation is a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster with a remit to produce high quality programming for free; but there's a unit called BBC Worldwide whose job it is to battle it out in the red-in-tooth-and-claw world of commercial TV programming, selling BBC programmes overseas and minting money that can then be used to subsidize the public broadcasting component.

That would imply that BBC Worldwide profits do impact the license fee (assuming the BBC don't just spend the profits, but use it to drive down license fee costs).