the current charter goes to the end of 2027. could the bbc, for instance, be run like netflix on a subscription? the question there is, well, what about all of the millions who watch on free to air tv and free to air radio. you would have to have big changes. subscription bbc would be very different. and of course, borisjohnson, the prime minister was asked about this in question time only last week. he certainly did not suggest that he was in favour at the moment of getting rid of the licence fee and described the bbc as a great national institution at the time. now it s time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening. it s a quiet weather story at the moment. we ll have clear skies over the next few hours across england, wales, and eastern scotland that will allow those temperatures to fall away. but a bit more of a westerly feed driving in some cloud off the atlantic, bringing more moisture to the northwest of the great glen,
there have been many questions about how long it will last. the current charter goes to the end of 2027. could the bbc, for instance, be run like netflix on a subscription? the question there is, well, what about all of the millions who watch on free to air tv and free to air radio. you would have to have big changes. subscription bbc would be very different. and of course, borisjohnson, the prime minister was asked about this in question time only last week. he certainly did not suggest that he was in favour at the moment of getting rid of the licence fee and described the bbc as a great national institution at the time. now it s time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening. it s a quiet weather story at the moment. we ll have clear skies over the next few hours across england, wales, and eastern scotland that will allow those temperatures to fall away. but a bit more of a westerly feed driving in some cloud off the atlantic, bringing more moisture to the northwest
the present charter which runs until 2027 could be the last. our media correspondent, david sillito, explained what happened this morning on social media. a tweet this morning, the words, this licence fee announcement will be the last. the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. essentially, two bits of information in this. the first one, this licence fee announcement, essentially endorsing a story in today the mail on sunday suggesting the bbc licence fees are going to be frozen for the next two years and then small increases after that, which will mean further hefty cuts to their bbc s funding. but of course, the wider issue about the licence fee itself. there have been many questions about how long it will last. the current charter goes to the end of 2027. could the bbc, for instance, be run like netflix on a subscription? the question there is, well, what about all of the millions who watch on free to air tv and free t
the culture secretary nadine dorries has suggested that the days of the bbc licence fee are numbered in a tweet suggesting the present charter which runs until 2027 could be the last. our media correspondent david sillito explained what happened this morning on social media. a tweet this morning, the words, this licence fee announcement will be the last. the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. essentially, two bits of information in this. the first one, this licence fee announcement, essentially endorsing a story in today the mail on sunday suggesting the bbc licence fees are going to be frozen for the next two years and then small increases after that, which will mean further hefty cuts to their bbc s funding. but of course, the wider issue about the licence fee itself. there have been many questions about how long it will last. the current charter goes to the end of 2027. could the bbc, for instance, be run like netf
is subscription free there s no subscription for radio, it s a free to air service and no subscription company is going to throw £500 million, £600 million a year into the pot of funding free to air radio. then you get into whether or not you have to make the radio services ad funded. that then has a knock on effect for the commercial sector, as well as having, i should say, a huge effect on bbc radio, were it to be ad funded you can. sorry to interrupt, but basically, you know, we could talk about we probably will end up talking about this licence fee over and over on the media show. we ll look at telly but, you know, in terms of radio, which you know about, are you suggesting that actually it might affect the whole of radio in the uk, notjust the bbc? yeah, my rough back of a cigarette packet calculation suggests that if you were to divest bbc radio in its totality from television as a result of tv going subscription only you would have to, first of all, close down, i m afr