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buckeye · 17-02-2020, 15:19

The Royal Charter isn't going to end until 2027,
the world is going to be a very different place then and alternative thinking needs to be applied to funding the BBC.
By then pretty much every device we will be consuming media on will be a connected device.
My initial thoughts on BBC funding towards the end of this decade is to have a 2 step funding, a subscription and free model.
The free model would involve the BBC being able to monetise all data it collects on users of that tier a la Google, Facebook et all.
The subscription model would opt out of all data collection from them.
That way there would still be no need for the BBC to carry adverts and allow the status quo to continue for the other traditional broadcasters to sell advertising and not drive any of them into the wall because the BBC is stealing revenue from them.

I'm sure over the next 7 years other revenue streams will present themselves as technology progresses to provide funding for the BBC and think this is possibly the last decade we will have the license fee as we know it.

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buckeye cf.addict Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 225	Re: BBC licence fee to be reviewed by Conservatives The Royal Charter isn't going to end until 2027, the world is going to be a very different place then and alternative thinking needs to be applied to funding the BBC. By then pretty much every device we will be consuming media on will be a connected device. My initial thoughts on BBC funding towards the end of this decade is to have a 2 step funding, a subscription and free model. The free model would involve the BBC being able to monetise all data it collects on users of that tier a la Google, Facebook et all. The subscription model would opt out of all data collection from them. That way there would still be no need for the BBC to carry adverts and allow the status quo to continue for the other traditional broadcasters to sell advertising and not drive any of them into the wall because the BBC is stealing revenue from them. I'm sure over the next 7 years other revenue streams will present themselves as technology progresses to provide funding for the BBC and think this is possibly the last decade we will have the license fee as we know it.