Mark Lawson
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194 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The first one is advertising.
Yeah.
Yeah, everyone's struggling with advertising.
So to introduce a big beast to the advertising jungle would lead to extinction.
Therefore, that's not going to happen.
So then there is the digital license fee.
Now, this is something that the BBC itself has been pushing quite heavily.
Their argument is that the digital license fee should extend to include Netflix, Amazon, all the rest of them, possibly even YouTube.
That's why it's another BF, as they say there, busted flush.
That wouldn't happen.
We're getting to the two that are...
broadly plausible.
Again, huge moment recently.
Dr. Samir Shah, the chairman of the BBC, he came out in the most recent edition of the Sunday Times saying, we want the Burnham government to look at the household levy.
The household levy is that every household would pay for the BBC.
And there are various ways it would be done.
It could be added to your electricity bill, as an argument is used, that...
So it's added to your electricity bill.
Another popular argument from within the BBC is that it's added to your council tax.
They're working backwards.
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