What do you think should happen to the BBC's terrestrial commercial rivals? The status quo is basically a death sentence for most of them.
Maybe you're okay with that, Channel 5 has never done anything useful in its whole existence, and ITV hasn't done anything worthwhile for many years. It would seem a shame to lose Channel 4 - they were the only terrestrial channel to show Babylon 5 or Stargate.
On reflection a solution where we drag the BBC down to the level of Channel 5 for the sake of fairness does seem like the worst possible answer.
Still, I reckon any organisation that hasn't faced cuts for many years can take 5% out of its budget by just stopping doing stupid things - we've taken at least that much out of Transformer's budget by finding better ways of doing things - so I wouldn't object to Jeremy Hunt taking a sum like that off the licence fee.
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Maybe you're okay with that, Channel 5 has never done anything useful in its whole existence, and ITV hasn't done anything worthwhile for many years. It would seem a shame to lose Channel 4 - they were the only terrestrial channel to show Babylon 5 or Stargate.
On reflection a solution where we drag the BBC down to the level of Channel 5 for the sake of fairness does seem like the worst possible answer.
Still, I reckon any organisation that hasn't faced cuts for many years can take 5% out of its budget by just stopping doing stupid things - we've taken at least that much out of Transformer's budget by finding better ways of doing things - so I wouldn't object to Jeremy Hunt taking a sum like that off the licence fee.
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