Thread: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Old 18-09-2018, 18:56   #1
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BBC wants to increase licence fee
The Director General of the BBC is trying to make a case for an increase to the licence fee. This, I think, is the wrong approach.

What the DG should be doing is making a case for the licence fee to be scrapped, with a subscription at the existing rate maintained for its existing TV and radio channels and the i-Player.

Then it should make a case to the Government to provide additional premium material at an additional cost, either with one or more premium channels broadcast by traditional linear means and/or by the establishment of a new streaming service.

That would be a much better solution than just putting up the outdated licence fee that poorer members of society would find difficult to pay.

https://www.rapidtvnews.com/20180918...#axzz5RTMUzQGs
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