when a lot of people who use bbc services particularly older people don t have reliable broadband. 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 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 o
got its huge problems. . lots of parents, for example, really love being able - to put their kids in. front of programming that doesn t have any advertising in it. - and any kind - of subscription model is very hard to do when a lot- of people who use bbc services, particularly older people, - don t have reliable broadband. 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 th
and any kind of subscription model is very hard to do when a lot of people who use bbc services particularly older people don t have reliable broadband. 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 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
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,