Boris Johnson’s Tories in the UK are signalling a “mission attack” on the BBC, centred on a switch from households paying compulsory licence fees to voluntary Netflix-style subscriptions. Why? And could it work? Veteran UK media analyst Claire Enders has run the numbers.
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February round-up: subscription BBC, the BBC and the creative economy, Disney, telecoms results
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Chart of the month: Spend on first-run, UK-originated programming, 2018
A diminished BBC would result in diminished spend on local content, a diminished shop window and brand that independent producers can leverage to sell to the world, and a diminished television ecosystem, with fewer reasons to enter the medium and sample any of the broadcasters’ offerings. Rising local content expenditure from foreign streaming services may fill a gap at a base level but none have Terms of Trade with producers. |
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Claire Enders forcefully counters the claims the Netflix is a model for funding the the BBC.
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