A subscription-based BBC could be what the “future looks like”, the former UK culture secretary has said. John Whittingdale, minister for media and data, told a conference that public service broadcasters must “adapt” to the changing TV landscape. “One of the issues for debate, in the longer term, not the next year, is the funding,” he said. “We have a model where the BBC is maintained by the licence fee. “We’ve already begun to see evidence that people are questioning whether they need to pay the licence fee… “That means there is going to be a debate about the licence fee but that will be for the end of this decade,” he told Ofcom’s Small Screen: Big Debate virtual conference.
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