Okay mr lets tax everyone regardless.. because reasons?!!?
If everyone is happy in paying the tax er.. sorry 'licence' every year, then everyone should be happy paying a subscription right?
If the BBC is producing content that you like then you should be happy to paid the same amount of money as a subscription rather than a tax.
All the supposedly good shows the BBC produces would also be commercially viable right?
So not only would they get the income from the subscription they could sell the shows as they already do.
So why do we have this archaic tax system? It really makes no sense!
And all the counter arguments I've seen on here to continue the tax are either bias or simply wrong.
Its frankly not a million miles away from the Film and Music industry refusing to move with the times, where they punish people who dont want to used their old models for product. And they come off looking like complete bullies.
Turn the BBC subscription based, near complete digital format and sell it world wide, then you wouldnt need to tax the people of one tiny island nation who have less and less money each year.
Kodi streams appear to be in all the news at the second, but yet the providers STILL refusing to see the potential markets.. it frankly boggles the mind.
The growth of Netflix and Amazon Prime show that the model does work and yes they do provide some really good content, more REAL competition would be a good thing and even though I dont watch the BBC all that much I do believe it would be a good standard with which the market would have to compete against.
But to get to that stage we first really have to stop living in 1977.