1 hour ago The BBC's caller manager wide has described the accepted TV licence exemplary arsenic "a busted flush" and "no longer acceptable for purpose".
In his archetypal large nationalist quality since taking implicit the BBC six weeks ago, erstwhile Google enforcement Matt Brittin told MPs that the licence interest is "yesterday's model".
The BBC receives astir of its backing from the £180-a-year TV licence, but the fig of households paying has declined successful caller years, and the broadcaster is discussing betterment of the strategy with the government.
Brittin said: "We tin and should beryllium doing arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable connected [enforcing] licence interest postulation nether the existent model, but it's yesterday's model, it's a busted flush, it's nary longer acceptable for purpose, and that's wherefore we request to marque the lawsuit for the BBC and a displacement of the licence interest model."
He did not specify what helium wants to regenerate it, but helium and BBC seat Samir Shah suggested the authorities should reconsider a compulsory household levy, which it antecedently ruled out.
Brittin told the House of Commons the Culture, Media and Sport committee connected Wednesday that specified a levy could beryllium collected done inferior bills specified arsenic broadband, mobile oregon electricity.
If 100% of homes paid done specified a scheme, the interest could beryllium reduced from its existent level, helium said.
"The situation is it's been ruled out, and I tin recognize the concerns astir outgo of surviving and truthful on, connected households, but I deliberation it's got merits and others person recovered it to person merits," Brittin said.
Shah said a levy "would lick a batch of problems for us, and we're surely unfastened to it", but admitted it "could beryllium seen as, and is efficaciously different tax".
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