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As a specialist adviser during their inquiry into the wider public service broadcasting landscape. and, of course, they did havejohn whittingdale in front of them at that time answering questions. and i think that... i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn't the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don't they ask people to pay for it? and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee. but what i learned — as you've heard from helen and from phil — is that we don't have the infrastructure th...

When a lot of people who use bbc services — particularly older people — don't have reliable broadband. yeah, i mean, i'd like to bring in phil riley here, chief executive of boom radio. you know, you've built up radio stations, you know commercial radio really well. let's take nadine dorries at face value. you know, if this is the last licence fee to be announced, as she's suggesting, how could the bbc be funded? helen was touching on a couple of options, but what are the options, do you think? i think helen hit the nail on the head, really. i don't think there is really anotherfunding mod...

Yeah, i mean, i'd like to bring in phil riley here, chief executive of boom radio. you know, you've built up radio stations, you know, commercial radio really well. let's take nadine dorries at face value. you know, if this is the last licence fee to be announced as she's suggesting, how could the bbc be funded? helen was touching on a couple of options, but what are the options, do you think? i think helen hit the nail on the head, really. i don't think there is really another funding model that works for anything like the scale of bbc that we have today. subscription is an interesting idea, ...

Got its huge problems. . lots of parents, for example, really love being able - to put their kids in. front of programming that doesn't have any advertising in it. - and any kind - of subscription model is very hard to do when a lot- of people who use bbc services, particularly older people, - don't have reliable broadband. yeah. i mean, i'd like to bring in phil riley here, chief executive of boom radio. you know, you've built up radio stations, you know commercial radio really well. let's take nadine dorries at face value. you know, if this is the last licence fee to be announced, as she's s...

Of them at that time answering questions and i think that i mean, i went into that inquiry thinking, yes, why doesn't the bbc have the courage of its convictions around some of its great content? why don't they ask people to pay for it and they could end up maybe making more money out of that than they do from the licence fee? but what i learned, as you've heard from helen and from phil, is that we don't have the infrastructure that would allow that to happen. a key tenet of the bbc has to be universality. and if ultimately you went down a subscription route, you would end up disenfranchising ...