[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

Something that is regularly reviewed and updated to take account of current circumstances before being allowed to continue is by definition not old fashioned. Much the same way as a suit bought last week from Marks and Spencer’s Spring 2019 collection isn’t old fashioned, just because they’ve been selling suits for over a century.

From the rest of your post I deduce that you cannot cite any research that backs up your assertion that switching the BBC to a subscription funding model would result in only a slightly smaller number of subscribers compared to licence fee payers.

OB has got it totally wrong. A subscription model would be compared with the offerings of Netflix and be cast aside. The BBC is TV of last resort and do a reasonable job - save for the leftie news team.