Letters

Get rid of the BBC’s ‘outdated’ licence fee

I fully understand why Ofcom wants the BBC to get more of its content online (Issue 635, page 7), but the much bigger issue is the outdated licence fee. I haven’t paid the licence fee for two years, having finally realised during the first lockdown how much rubbish was on the main channels (not just the BBC, but ITV and Channels 4 and 5, too).

For drama and films, I now subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime. For news and information, I watch YouTube. Not having terrestrial TV felt odd at first, but now it never even occurs to me to wonder what’s on the BBC or ITV.

By the way, I don’t fall into the typical category of people abandoning the BBC. I’m in my seventies, not my twenties. For every one of me, there must be a dozen who are much younger and are baffled that we still have a TV licence.