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The Times / Matthew Moore / Jul 18, 2019
“The compulsory licence fee system is guaranteed until 2027, after which the broadcaster will have to negotiate a new funding arrangement with the government…’You could decide the BBC is a subscription service,’ Lord Hall of Birkenhead told MPs. ‘It would be very, very different to the sort of BBC you have now, because you would be giving subscribers what they want, not the breadth of the population.’ He added: ‘I would argue that’s the wrong model for supporting the BBC.'”
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