BBC Director General Floats Concerning Vision Of Future Where “People Don’t Care” About Nation’s Oldest Public Broadcaster

BBC boss backs licence fee ‘reform’ to secure funding for the broadcaster

The broadcasting chief also said he wanted an investigation into ‘grinding cuts’ over the past decade

BBC Director General Floats Concerning Vision Of Future Where “People Don’t Care” About Nation’s Oldest Public Broadcaster

The BBC makes the UK front pages almost every day but Director General Tim Davie isn’t so worried about that. Instead, he floated a more worrying vision of the future this morning where “people don’t care” about the nation’s public broadcaster. “We should not take people caring for granted,” he said. “Institutions are in big trouble if they assume engagement and there is any degree of talk [around them not caring]. We are absolutely the clas…

BBC boss supports ‘reform’ to funding of broadcaster

BBC Broadcasting House in London, James Manning/PA Wire BBC director-general Tim Davie has said he supports “reform” in the way the corporation is funded. The Government is reviewing the BBC’s Charter, looking at how it should be funded, after committing to increasing the licence fee in line with inflation each year until 2027. In April, there was a rise from £169.50 to £174.50 in the household charge, after years in which the licence fee was fi…