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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Laws can be changed, Chris. The Conservatives have not disguised their preference to force the BBC into a subscription based model.
Putting commercials onto the BBC will not be popular with the public but converting the licence fee into a subscription would address the complaints made by those who say they are forced to pay this fee even though they don't watch or listen to the BBC.
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I think you'll find individual conservative MPs, speaking their own opinions, may have floated the idea. There is a vast difference between the opinions of individual MPs and party policy.
As usual, OB, you're having difficulty processing facts. The facts are:
1. Public service broadcasting, funded by commercials, is a long established precedent in the UK.
2. The most successful subscription-funded entertainment channel broadcaster in the UK (Sky) also has to run adverts to make ends meet. You can't use subscription as an alternative to advertising. You have to use both together.
Locking the BBC behind subscription would destroy it almost overnight because its entire operation is based on mass appeal and audience levels you simply can't get if you're behind a paywall. For that reason, it will never be the policy of any mainstream UK party, and even if it were, the legal challenges would go on for so long as to make it impossible to deliver.
You are of course free to speculate to your heart's content, but there is a qualitative difference between predicting future events based on past and current trends, and predicting the future as an exercise in wish fulfilment.