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
can t have bbc radio any more because radio is subscription free. there s no subscription for radio, it s a free to air service, and no subscription company is going to throw £500 600 million a year into the pot of funding free to air radio. so 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. yes, because. 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? the whole of radio, 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
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
there s no subscription for radio, it s a free to air service and no subscription company is going to throw £5 6 million a year into the pot of funding free to air radio. 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 because. 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. you d have to close down, i m afraid, bbc local radio and all the nation s
do you think? i think helen hit the nail on the head, really. i don t think there is really anotherfunding model that works for anything like the scale of bbc that we have today. subscription is an interesting idea, but it falls very badly when you consider that 18 million households in the uk access their television via freeview. freeview it s impossible to put subscription on freeview, it hasn t got conditional access, so there s 18 million people if you take the bbc off them, the freeview model falls over. the bbc, if it were to go down the subscription route, simply can t have bbc radio any more, because radio 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,