Why The BBC Licence Fee Is Now Impossible To Justify

Описание: The BBC announced 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts on April 15th. The licence fee went up to £180 in the same month. And the new Director General is a former Google executive.

And I think that last detail tells you everything about where this is all heading.

The BBC is cutting staff while simultaneously launching more than fifty YouTube channels — making content specifically and exclusively for a free platform, owned by the company its new boss used to run.

At the same time, it's asking you to pay a compulsory household tax to fund it.I called the BBC a cultural dinosaur a few weeks ago. I didn't think they'd prove me quite so quickly.In this video I argue that the BBC's move to YouTube doesn't save the licence fee — it destroys the argument for it.

Because if you're competing on a free platform on exactly the same terms as everyone else, the case for a mandatory £180 a year stops making any sense at all.

Chapters
0:00 It's not looking good for Aunty Beeb
0:40 The facts — jobs, money, Matt Brittin
2:00 The cultural dinosaur
3:00 The YouTube paradox
5:00 Why the licence fee argument collapses
7:10 Where does this leave us

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