Monday, December 23, 2013

TV licence should be abolished, major inquiry into future of BBC to hear




‘The TV licence fee should be abolished because the BBC has “lost touch” with the value of money, a top broadcaster will tell an inquiry into the future of the corporation.

David Elstein, a former chief executive of Channel 5, thinks subscriptions should replace the fee so people can choose which services to take.

He will make the comments when he appears before the Commons’ culture, media and sport committee, which begins a “fundamental examination” of the future of the BBC next month.’

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