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**Chris** · 19-12-2018, 07:27

As per usual, this topic is getting stuck on the “the BBC should go subscription because that’s a bit like the licence fee innit” nonsense.

As has been said many times before, public service broadcasting in the U.K., with the single exception of the BBC, operates on a free-to-view, advertising-supported model. This is the model that is proven to work for a broadcaster that requires universal, or near-universal availability in British homes. In the event that the licence fee is ended at the next charter review, that is the model the BBC will adopt.

(But the licence won’t be terminated at the next review - that wouldn’t give them time to prepare. If things were going to change, they terms of the next royal charter would likely specify that they would occur at some point within the next charter period, so that would be the second half of the 2020s at the earliest. *If* Parliament decided to end the TV licence. Which I still don’t think it will.)

19-12-2018, 07:27	#79
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,118	Re: Funding of the BBC As per usual, this topic is getting stuck on the “the BBC should go subscription because that’s a bit like the licence fee innit” nonsense. As has been said many times before, public service broadcasting in the U.K., with the single exception of the BBC, operates on a free-to-view, advertising-supported model. This is the model that is proven to work for a broadcaster that requires universal, or near-universal availability in British homes. In the event that the licence fee is ended at the next charter review, that is the model the BBC will adopt. (But the licence won’t be terminated at the next review - that wouldn’t give them time to prepare. If things were going to change, they terms of the next royal charter would likely specify that they would occur at some point within the next charter period, so that would be the second half of the 2020s at the earliest. If Parliament decided to end the TV licence. Which I still don’t think it will.)