Even the most ardent fan of the BBC has to face facts. The days of the licence fee are over.
Last year, 539,000 households stopped paying the £174.50 fee, a much faster drop than expected and an increase of more than 75 per cent on the previous year’s 300,000 slump.
To lose funding at that rate is clearly unsustainable. Little wonder that the incoming Director-General, Matt Brittin, who took the helm in May 18, says the Corporation is facing a ‘moment of real jeopardy’ and that the licence fee funding model ‘ties us to the past’.
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