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Where dear old Auntie should be using the license fee is to take more chances, they can't be overly "silly" but they should be able to make/commission new programming from "unproven" sources. Where they are going seems to be more of the same old safe stuff that everyone else makes or has been around long enough to establish a following. Commercial channels have less opportunity for that and with advertising spread thinly programme makers have to be more popular minded too.

Then, as with politics, you have to look at a long picture. What if in the future there is only pay to view and (government) propaganda? Who will take chances making a programme that may not "sell"? How does "minority" programming get produced and broadcast? Who pays?