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 BBC licence fee - PeterS
The headwind the BBC and the licence fee face is that very few under 30s consume BBC output, be it on TV or radio. They’re unlikely to shift to it as they age; streaming is just too convenient. Even I, at 50, consume very little BBC output as a proportion of total media consumed. So it has to change. You can’t have a model where you tax the equipment you watch live TV on and expect those that don’t consume live TV to still pay.

The BBC needs to stop competing with commercial TV, go back to proper public broadcasting and be funded through some form of grant from general taxation. Perhaps offset by income from BBC selling the back catalogue. Or, if Bruce Springsteen’s back catalogue went for $500 million, the BBCs back catalogue has to be worth, what, 100 times that? $50 billion is around £40 billion. Create a sovereign entertainment fund and use the couple of billion a year it generates to fund a slimmed down BBC :)
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