BBC could ditch licence fee and change to Netflix-style subscription fee, says Nicky Morgan
THE BBC could one day ditch the TV licence and change to a Netflix-style subscription fee, the Culture Secretary has suggested. Nicky Morgan said she was “open minded” about the change if it would raise enough cash for the corporation. Giving evidence to the digital, culture, media and sport select committee she was asked by […]
THE BBC could one day ditch the TV licence and change to a Netflix-style subscription fee, the Culture Secretary has suggested.
Nicky Morgan said she was “open minded” about the change if it would raise enough cash for the corporation.
Giving evidence to the digital, culture, media and sport select committee she was asked by Tory MP Julian Knight: “The BBC moving to a subscription service is being floated as a potential policy for the next Conservative manifesto. What’s your view?”
She replied: “I would need to understand what that would do to their income. I think the BBC is a very important institution, it’s an enormous part of our soft power around the world, but undoubtedly the sector is changing.
“We all know from streaming services and the way the younger generation consume services, it is going to change.”
Everyone who watches live television must pay the licence fee even if they don’t watch the BBC.
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Under a subscription service, you pay to watch.
The licence fee raised £3.7billion for the Beeb last year.
But the committee has warned a rise of streaming among under-34s has endangered that revenue.
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