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Originally Posted by Chris
Your logic is faulty.
Sky is not a public service broadcaster. Nor is Nat Geo or BT. The BBC, ITV, C4 and C5, on the other hand ... these are PSBs, who have the right to occupy the top five EPG slots on all UK broadcast platforms in return for obeying certain requirements.
Amongst those requirements is that they accept the way they raise revenue is set down in law. For the BBC, by royal charter it is permitted to collect a licence fee from everyone who receives live TV broadcasts. For the others, they are permitted to run commercials (within certain limits). They are also forbidden to charge any kind of subscription.
The alternative funding model for the BBC, as a public service broadcaster, in the absence of a licence fee, is obvious: the other public service broadcasters, who are free to air and ad-supported, are the model, not special interest services like Sky etc.
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Not really unless your`e telling me the law can`t be changed? Isn`t the government not currently looking at how the BBC is funded? Could they not take them out of the `public broadcaster` thing?
In the not to distant future I think we`l get a situation not unlike the POLL TAX in the eighties were people will simply say I`m not paying anymore! Tell me what can the BBC,government or whoever do about it if say MILLIONS of people just stopped paying for the TV Licence? I think the government are realising this might happen and are desperately trying to seek a fairer way of funding the BBC.