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How can traditional British television survive the US streamers (www.bbc.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64004969

"We're in danger of having no public service broadcasting within a decade, certainly within 20 years," he says. "We don't have a strategy for their survival. It's that serious. The regulators need to start thinking about it."

Do we want a future where European media is dominated by US streamers like Netflix and YouTube, and European broadcasters are a shadow of their former selves or have even ceased to exist?

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[โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

BBC should just be paid for through taxation instead of shaking people down with harassment letters every time someone within a 1 km radius accesses BBC without paying a license.

If they just collected it straight up they wouldn't be going through hardship. They shouldn't even show ads on a public channel imo.

Anyways watching TV is garbage.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    NRK in Norway changed from license to tax funding. It's a good change, the licensing was getting absurd when they wanted everyone either with access to nrk.no to be required to have a license.

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