[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

The BBC,in my opinion, is stuck in the past and the license fee is likewise. It must be scrapped and forced into a subscription service. People argue that it would cost too much and the quality of programs would suffer. I disagree. The money raised through subs plus advertising revenue would provide more than enough for them to make or buy good programs. Also,if they stopped paying the likes of Gary Lineker silly money for jobs that anyone could do they'd save a hell of a lot of money.

The BBC is indeed stuck in the past but if they were on a subscription model, they would die - unless they can compete with the likes of Amazon & Netflix which they can’t because they would also have to fund the PBS side of things like the News, QT, etc and would thus be uncompetitive.