Apparently he also wants to scrap the free license for over 75s. I predicted this a while ago. Young people are not watching the BBC so their target audience is getting older and of course no longer paying. I have not seen any statistics on this but I suspect someone will have done this and at some point the non paying viewers will be in the majority.

Of course his solution is he wants more money from us. My solution is the BBC needs to respond to the major challenges in broadcasting that face all of the current TV companies not just the BBC.

Some suggestions he might want to consider:

1. Stop over paying your staff in front of and behind the camera. The exodus from the BBC when their salaries became public has not happened because the other TV companies cannot match their salaries. The average person at the BBC normally earns more than their equivalent at one of the other channels. Much noise at the ginger one leaving Radio 2 but one swallow does not make a summer.

2. Stop over staffing. I have spoken to lots of people who work in TV they all say that if it is an OB the BBC turns up with more trucks, equipment and staff than any other company, why?

OB seems to be a particular problem I recently heard a live football match both Radio 5 Live and BBC London had their own commentary teams, why? One couldn't take the feed from the other?

As for the staff who go to the Olympics / world cup enough said.

3. Stop trying to compete with ITV for ratings using celebrity driven shows. I would rather a smaller BBC that focused on high quality documentaries and arts.

I could go on ad nauseum.

PS
Picking up on Rudi's post I am advocating quality over quantity.

Edited by Badger11 (19 Sep 2018 9.23am)

Not so. They have a liberal bias, but detest Corbyn and have a clear agenda against him. They seem to be mainly Lib Dem and Blairite types. So liberal, but not particularly left wing.

I am always inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to people that know what they are doing and that are tasked with managing an organisation. They must know they have a limited budget. Could it be that they are just higher quality? From a watcher's or listener's perspective that is indeed the case.

The BBC is the training ground for most of the top TV stations, so they must be doing something right.

As usual a load of people post who have no idea but a strong political agenda

The BBC is extraordinary. There is nothing like it anywhere else. It is also the best in the world at what it does. And its streaming and other innovations absolutely lead the market.

It attempts to be unbiased and is mandated to be so. Try living on a diet of Fox for a while.

People like to knock every damn thing, especially a certain generation. Be careful what you wish for.

And talking of that generation, why on earth should retired people get free anything (including TV licenses) unless they are in poverty. Especially as many current pensioners are benefiting from a pension structure never seen before and never likely to be repeated. Pensions are income, same as any other. If you are on a low income fine, let's means test. Not just give away the future of younger people to older people.