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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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That would be a much better solution than just putting up the outdated licence fee that poorer members of society would find difficult to pay.
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Cobblers as usual OB !
The fee was frozen for years. Then the Govt. made the BBC pay for the rich Tory pensioners licences - instead it needs to be free/subsidised for those on Income Support.
Scrap the fee and it would just become another commercial channel producing little new or original. At £12 a month for mostly original content its a bargain, compared to VM/Sky subscriptions. I would gladly sell my kidneys to save the BBC (well maybe just the one
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