Johnson’s BBC plans spark controversy – (Ekot) News

Prime Minister Boris Johnson He has long said he wants to see a change in the company’s licensing funding, but according to the Sunday Times, there are plans for a bigger change.

Voluntary subscription rather than compulsory license funding as now, sale of the majority of the BBC’s 61 radio channels and downsizing of the BBC’s comprehensive online news site

These are some changes Which is what the British government plans, according to The Times, to carry out the activities of the BBC.
The newspaper wrote that the government’s plans were presented to the BBC this weekend and quotes a so-called “senior source” in the government office.

It has long been known that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his closest adviser, Dominic Cummings, want to change the BBC’s funding forms, especially decriminalizing non-payment of a license, but according to the newspaper, they now want to go further.

So, anyone who wants BBC Content can simply subscribe, just like other purported streaming services like Netflix.

– We’re not cheating about the license fee, we’re going to scrap it, “we’re going to hit it,” says the source in government offices for The Times Sunday.

The only member of the government who has so far commented publicly on the information is Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in an interview with Sky News. Then he sounded more cautious, describing the BBC as a national tax and said it was just initial discussion areas about the company.

“But in a changing world, the BBC must change,” said Grant Shapps.

Something obviously the BBC He realized himself too. Just a few weeks ago, it was announced that more than 400 jobs would be removed from the newsroom, among other things on the grounds that people’s news habits had changed.

BBC critics praised the information in the Times about a major change, and the newspaper’s editorial page, for example, wrote that real change for the BBC was necessary. But the proposals were also criticized by several MPs in Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party.

– This vendetta against the BBC will not end well, for example, Boris Johnson’s party comrade Hugh Merriman.

if they grow up The structural changes made by the BBC, can only take effect in 2027 when the company’s current broadcasting license expires.

Daniel Alling, London
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