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Originally Posted by passingbat
When are you going to provide evidence that the general public as a whole are dissatisfied with the value they get from the license fee? The government, no matter how Rupert centric they are, won't drastically alter BBC funding against public will.
It reminds me of your claims that Atlantic was coming to VM; despite many requests to supply evidence, you declined to do so.
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I don't have to provide evidence. The Government is currently looking at whether or not to continue the existing TV licence fee system, you must have seen these reports, surely. It really doesn't matter whether the public are satisfied, what matters is the ideological view taken by the Government of the day.
I've explained on a number of occasions that it was my view that Sky Atlantic would be coming, based on media and other reports. Why did you think that I had some sort of insider knowledge? I don't work for VM or Sky!
If I was a bit overenthusiastic about that prospect, OK, I'll hold my hand up to that. But there were a number of things that were coming together and it was a reasonable expectation that maybe we were going to get a breakthough. Sadly, that didn't happen.