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Originally Posted by Chris
The BBC is a major international broadcaster and employs more people than any other broadcaster anywhere in the world. That's 20,000 full time staff, in a business with revenue of more than £5 billion (more than £1bn of which comes from worldwide commercial operations, not the licence fee).
The one thing you can be absolutely certain of, is that nobody is going to get 'rid' of it, and no Government of any colour would get away with forcing a funding model onto it that would be guaranteed to destroy its audience.
I think you're allowing your dislike of the licence fee to cloud your judgment just a little.
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I didn't say I disliked the licence fee, its probably the most efficient way to fund the BBC. I just said its not illegal for the BBC to go down a subscription model, should the Government decide to do so. And no, I don't think that is a reality any time soon.
But your argument about them being a world broadcaster, with huge revenues and employing masses of staff could also be used as an argument for privatising them.
If they're so good, let them stand on their own two feet and seek out other means of funding. I'm not saying this is necessarily my view, but I wouldn't rule it out.
I note you call them a business....
of course they're not, but perhaps they should be??