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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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Actually we don’t even need to wait 5 years. The current BBC charter expires at the end of 2027. We will know what the new one will look like months in advance, and we will know from parliamentary debate what the general shape of it will be perhaps a year before that.
If the new BBC charter defines public service broadcasting as encompassing the use of linear schedules, then we know the BBC will be broadcasting until 2037 at least. And if it does, then the other PSBs will too. As will smaller commercial operators who will benefit from the stable ecosystem that is one of the benefits of a publicly funded BBC.
I don’t for a moment expect you will ever admit you were wrong, under any circumstances. You’ll simply shift the goalposts, or find some other reason for us to keep on waiting for your vision of utopia to materialise. But for most of us, we can be pretty confident that in no more than about 4 years from now, we will know for sure that we were right to criticise your predictions.