It came from a radio4 show (probably the Media Show),so I cant link itSomething about a grant to channel 4 of @ £5.6 million last year.
I agree about BBCW but the licence fee belongs to the 1960's when there was no real independent TV and the BBC had built the transmitter network. In these days of the internet (which the BBC has contributed nothing to, it only steals the bandwidth payed for by others), the only fair way to fund the BBC is by subscribers to a worldwide encrypted service...the BBC would earn more money that way but they are too frightened to let go of the easy money of its licence fee
(I agree about BBCW but the licence fee belongs to the 1960's when there was no real independent TV and the BBC had built the transmitter network. In these days of the internet (which the BBC has contributed nothing to, it only steals the bandwidth payed for by others), the only fair way to fund the BBC is by subscribers to a worldwide encrypted service...the BBC would earn more money that way but they are too frightened to let go of the easy money of its licence fee
CanonCaliber A big bore,
Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:24,
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