Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 31-08-2020, 16:40   #1436
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
The BBC’s charter expires in 2027, so it’s going to be around, charging a licence fee and broadcasting linear TV, for 7 more years as a bare minimum.

Because negotiations for the new charter need to finish around 5-6 years from now, if there was any serious prospect of the BBC losing the right to charge a universal fee for its services, you would be hearing serious people starting to talk about it by now. That means we are going to have a publicly funded BBC until at least 2037, although the precise means of revenue gathering may well change in some way (a broadband tax is possible IMO).

However let us please not drift into yet another licence fee thread. This topic is about content delivery technology, not the way it’s paid for.
The abolition of the licence fee (Mod edit, Chris) ... is clearly not the topic of this thread, as I’ve already stated.
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