They spent £90 million to build a new set for Eastenders. Which of these programmes better fulfills the public broadcasting remit?
The licence fee is an outdated concept that’s not fit for the 21st century. The BBC should go fully commercial and if people want their brand of output it will survive.
I know there is a lot of nostalgia for the BBC but the same could be said about steam trains and burning coal, ideal for when they were invented/ discovered but now not fit for the time we live in.
You see the argument that not everyone has an internet connection but you don’t need it as there are many subscription services on the digital over air that the BBC use (they turned the analogue off years ago).
Probably is time we have a conversation about the future of the BBC and what we want from it and how we fund it. As it is terrestrial TV probably only has another 15-20 years to go anyway.
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They spent £90 million to build a new set for Eastenders. Which of these programmes better fulfills the public broadcasting remit?
The licence fee is an outdated concept that’s not fit for the 21st century. The BBC should go fully commercial and if people want their brand of output it will survive.
I know there is a lot of nostalgia for the BBC but the same could be said about steam trains and burning coal, ideal for when they were invented/ discovered but now not fit for the time we live in.
You see the argument that not everyone has an internet connection but you don’t need it as there are many subscription services on the digital over air that the BBC use (they turned the analogue off years ago).
Probably is time we have a conversation about the future of the BBC and what we want from it and how we fund it. As it is terrestrial TV probably only has another 15-20 years to go anyway.