The BBC fights suggestions that it convert to a subscription model: “The principle of universality is absolutely the debate here”

The BBC fights suggestions that it convert to a subscription model: “The principle of universality is absolutely the debate here”

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The U.K. culture secretary tweeted over the weekend that the license fee model the BBC relies on would end when the current deal expires in 2027. (“It was an interesting way of announcing it,” the BBC’s director-general noted.) “This licence fee announcement will be the last,” culture secretary Nadine Dorries wrote on Twitter. “Time now...

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