as a specialist adviser during their inquiry into the wider public service broadcasting landscape. and, of course, they did havejohn whittingdale in front of them at that time answering questions. and i think that. i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn t the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don t they ask people to pay for it? and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee. but what i learned as you ve heard from helen and from phil is that we don t have the infrastructure that would allow that to happen. a key tenet of the bbc has to be universality. and if, ultimately, you went down a subscription route, you would end up disenfranchising or cutting people off from bbc content at the most vulnerable fringes of our society so people who are geographically remote, or perhaps don t have the money or the inclination to get onto high speed broadband and that would be the la
whether it s launching new services on a whim without really checking whether they re filling a commercial need, or outbidding the commercial sector for massive amounts of sports content on radio. in television, they ve opted out of doing that, but in radio they re still doing that, and just spending money in a way that we can t compete with. joeyjones sorry to interrupt, phil, but, joey, if ijust bring you in, you know, you looked at bbc funding, i think, when you were in government is axing the licence fee by 2028 a realistic possibility, do you think? actually, the period i looked at it was when i was supporting the dcms select committee as a specialist adviser during their inquiry into the wider public service broadcasting landscape. and, of course, they did havejohn whittingdale in front of them at that time answering questions. and i think that. i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn t the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great con
of them at that time answering questions and i think that i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn t the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don t they ask people to pay for it and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee? but what i learned, as you ve heard from helen and from phil, is that we don t have the infrastructure that would allow that to happen. a key tenet of the bbc has to be universality. and if ultimately you went down a subscription route, you would end up disenfranchising or cutting people off from bbc content at the most, most vulnerable fringes of our society. so people who are geographically remote or perhaps don t have the money to or the inclination to get onto high speed broadband, and that would be the last thing that anybody wants. so on that basis, there is a big problem with the licence fee coming because ultimately young people aren t, they re not watchi
actually, the period i looked at it was when i was supporting the dcms select committee as a specialist adviser during their inquiry into the wider public service broadcasting landscape. and, of course, they did havejohn whittingdale in front of them at that time answering questions. and i think that. i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn t the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don t they ask people to pay for it? and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee. but what i learned as you ve heard from helen and from phil is that we don t have the infrastructure that would allow that to happen. a key tenet of the bbc has to be universality. and if, ultimately, you went down a subscription route, you would end up disenfranchising or cutting people off from bbc content at the most vulnerable fringes of our society so people who are geographically remote, or perhaps don t have
select committee as a specialist adviser, during their inquiry into the wider public service broadcasting landscape. and, of course, they did have john whittingdale in front of them at that time, answering questions. and i think that. i mean, iwent into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn t the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don t they ask people to pay for it? and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee? but what i learned, as you ve heard from from helen and from phil, is that we don t have the infrastructure that would allow that to happen. a key tenet of the bbc has to be universality. and if, ultimately, you went down a subscription route, you would end up disenfranchising or cutting people off from bbc content at the most vulnerable fringes of our society so, people who are geographically remote or perhaps don t have the money or the inclination to get onto high speed broadband