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Policy Exchange, described by The New Statesman as David Cameron's 'favourite think tank', has produced a report, ‘Changing the Channel’, on public service broadcasting which it says needs to be radically overhauled if it is to survive in the new digital age.
It calls for the BBC to place quality before ratings, and stop spending huge resources on big-name presenters, imported US television shows, sports rights, programmes for 16 to 35 year olds and popular entertainment which other channels would deliver anyway.
The report certainly makes one think. The BBC gets £3.5 billion (£3.5 billion!) a year from licence fees, a huge amount of money when you consider some of the tripe that is broadcast, let alone the high fees paid to some big-name presenters most of whom simply do not warrant them.
The television license fee is surely fast becoming an anachronism. Television programmes can now be picked up by so many pocket devices as well as computers, that television sets are in danger of becoming an endangered species.
So I would suggest that the licence fee be scrapped altogether. If the BBC were obliged to go ‘commercial’ then we would all be saved a lot of money, especially as we’d also get rid of the BBC Trust, another recommendation of the Policy Exchange.
Better still, we might actually get better programmes!
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Policy Exchange, described by The New Statesman as David Cameron's 'favourite think tank', has produced a report, ‘Changing the Channel’, on public service broadcasting which it says needs to be radically overhauled if it is to survive in the new digital age.
It calls for the BBC to place quality before ratings, and stop spending huge resources on big-name presenters, imported US television shows, sports rights, programmes for 16 to 35 year olds and popular entertainment which other channels would deliver anyway.
The report certainly makes one think. The BBC gets £3.5 billion (£3.5 billion!) a year from licence fees, a huge amount of money when you consider some of the tripe that is broadcast, let alone the high fees paid to some big-name presenters most of whom simply do not warrant them.
The television license fee is surely fast becoming an anachronism. Television programmes can now be picked up by so many pocket devices as well as computers, that television sets are in danger of becoming an endangered species.
So I would suggest that the licence fee be scrapped altogether. If the BBC were obliged to go ‘commercial’ then we would all be saved a lot of money, especially as we’d also get rid of the BBC Trust, another recommendation of the Policy Exchange.
Better still, we might actually get better programmes!
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