There are too many channels being funded. BBC 3 is pointless, Six Music should have been allowed to die and Radio Three has next to no audience. 24 hour news is un-necessary as there simply isn't that much news, they just repeat the same thing at fifteen minute intervals. S4C in Wales pulls an audience that is often too small to measure and local radio is already well served by commercial stations.
I don't know how much has changed since the eighties, but M Thatcher used to ask why the BBC used three times as many studio personnel to present any interviews she took part in as ITV for the same output. I wouldn't mind if the quality was there, but wasting money on crap like East Enders and Strictly this or that shouldn't happen, the Beeb does not need to chase audiences and the lightweight froth should be left to the commercial channels.
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