sort of european tradition, stephanie will say this is an alien conceptin stephanie will say this is an alien concept in the us, but they do fund their state broadcasting either through a household tax or a licence fee. when you look at the different models it is difficult to know the alternative. subscription is the obvious alternative because we are now used to paying for things like netflix but there are lots of bbc services that do not lend themselves to subscription. and many mps who attacked the bbc in the uk are only too keen to appear on their bbc radio local stations. michael grade in your clip was right, one of the commercial media in the uk resents the bbc because it has a fixed income and it competes with them, at the end of the day, what will be