I would take news and current affairs and charge a subscription for that. And everything else, just make it completely commercial. I think the BBC's problem really is the license fee is anachronistic. My son's not going to pay license fee. Why shouldn't it be? I mean, they all express opinions all day long. I did Gary Denicke, a football presenter who can't express an opinion. The current rules are so vague about non-newspeople. There's Laura Coonsburg or Hugh Edwards, the main newspeople at BBC. Of course, they can't express news opinions. But as for Gary's years, a friend of mine, called Declaration

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