Digger on the Ropes

Now for a sensible answer to thorny problem

As just 5% of viewers back the Digger’s takeover of BSkyB and the consequent further erosion of the televiewing available FREE TO AIR, a new solution is called for.

What baffles me most of all though, is the way people cough up £30+/month subscriptions on top of the TV licensing fee  to watch puerile advertising slogans. It’s bad enough having to suffer it on Freeview, as the big switchover takes off.

So I’ve conceived a cunning plan. We bring the TV licensing fee now going to the BBC into line for all renewals from 1st Jan 2012 then turn the Beeb into a subscription channel using the TV licensing fee to give the viewer a choice of which service they wish to view.

It needs a strict ceiling on what a subscription channel can charge, so we finish up with a level playing field and a wide variety of services to choose from.

It makes no sense to pay a licence fee and a further subscription on top to watch Commercial Satellite Subscription channels and this would be an appropriate answer to those fearful of too much TV broadcasting being concentrated in the hands of one big spender.

The programming studios can then be floated off as purely commercial, film, news, entertainment and sporting venue production companies (IPOs -If you see Syd tell him) and all transmission accomplished via satellite.

Job Done and remember where you read it first?

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.