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Yeah, i mean, i d like to bring in phil riley here, chief executive of boom radio. you know, you ve built up radio stations, you know, commercial radio really well. let s take nadine dorries at face value. you know, if this is the last licence fee to be announced as she s suggesting, how could the bbc be funded? helen was touching on a couple of options, but what are the options, do you think? i think helen hit the nail on the head, really. i don t think there is really another funding 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 ....
Let s stop talking about these ridiculous stories and let s, you know, let me get on with thejob. but it s clearly been quite a rushed process of getting out these massive headline grabbing announcements. the bbc funding one, for example the ft reported this morning that there were cabinet ministers yesterday who were concerned they d been bounced into supporting this, it was all very rushed. the same goes for the policy announcement that came a couple of days ago so the government said they would send the military and the navy to help deal with the small boats crisis and a lot of sort of royal navy chiefs and mps themselves on the tory side criticising that. it all feels very rushed, a little bit desperate to try and distract us all. and we will come back to the bbc licence fee later. butjoeyjones, you know, as someone who was theresa may s spokesman when she was home secretary, do you believe what s happened this week is a deliberate distraction technique, and did you ever resort ....
Needs to make sure that then the bbc adheres to the highest standards in terms of the content contract they have with ofcom. i think ofcom have been actually less forceful than the old bbc governors were and i think that s a mistake and we should and we do try and press ofcom harder on that. but radio one and radio two that people worry about as being too commercial and, you know, getting back into getting into territory that they shouldn t be in? to a degree, although i think you have to, you have to acknowledge if you re going to allow the bbc to be in the radio business, it s going to have to be in most bits of the radio business and therefore it will be in the popular music end. but we are we expect if they re being funded the way they are, that that they do more than just play the hits, that they have a breadth of music and a breadth of subject matter, which you know, should be in a contract that they have with the population, if you like, through their ofcom contract and that nee ....
I mean, a pointless attempt at distraction, if you like. i mean, either borisjohnson is being badly advised or he s being very well advised and he s ignoring the advice. but, whichever it is, he s ending up trying to, as i say, sort of tick box populist policies to allow some of his potential critics on the backbenches to feel that their hobbyhorse issue is being advanced. at the same time as the british public and the activists the tory activists can see that he looks a broken man, and those optics, i think, have a much more profound impact than any policy that he might try to put forward in a sort of kneejerk reaction. and helen lewis from the atlantic. i mean, in the sunday papers, various newspapers, the telegraph and sunday times, they were reporting it as a blizzard of crowd pleasing policies. you know, laura s touched on it but, you know, one of them was the announcement about the bbc licence fee. within a few hours, lo and behold, the culture ....
Now on bbc news. it s time for the media show. hello. can a savvy media strategy save borisjohnson? headline grabbing policies are being rolled out this week in what s been dubbed operation red meat. but is there really such an operation? we re also looking at the apparently cosy relationship between those in government who set policy and the media, which is supposed to hold them to account. and we re asking what the new bbc licence fee deal means for the industry at large. let me introduce you to my guests. first, joeyjones was spokesman for theresa may when she was home secretary. before that, he was a deputy political editor at sky news. helen lewis writes for the atlantic. laura hughes is political correspondent for the financial times. and phil riley is the chief executive of boom radio and has had a long career in commercial radio, including running chrysalis and overseeing its sale to global. and, phil, we ll be talking a lot in the ....