Tony Hall the BBC's general diector wants the licence fee extended to include the estimated 500,000 UK homes where viewers do not have a TV set but watch programmes on-demand on the iPlayer.The move would enable the BBC to start charging the estimated 2% of household – 500,000 – in the UK which only consume on-demand TV content, rather than watching programmes live. He gave a speech at the Oxford Media convection on Wednesday to defence his view. He described the BBC as "one of the finest broadcasting organisations in the world" and "great value for money" reaching 96% of the population ever week. He said their should be a fee for every aspect in which the audience consume TV and Radio, so on the computers Ipad even a smartphone. Hall said the BBC's latest research showed that the public was prepared to spend an average of between £15 and £20 for its services, beyond the £12 a month (or £145.50 a year) households currently pay.
My view
In my opinion i think that the BBC will have a very big benefit from this because they will be just generating extra revenue, but on the other side they might have a risk of loosing their audience because i don't think that their audience will be happy about paying a license fee for BBC Iplayer. I don't think the customers will be willing to pay for Iplayer because they are paying for their internet and as it has been on the internet for free for a long time now, they cannot just come up with a new idea that there should be a license fee. The people that are just watching it on Iplyter without a TV in their household should just be charged or something. They cannot just apply a fee for everyone, even the people who have a TV in their household and are paying the license fee.
In my opinion i think that the BBC will have a very big benefit from this because they will be just generating extra revenue, but on the other side they might have a risk of loosing their audience because i don't think that their audience will be happy about paying a license fee for BBC Iplayer. I don't think the customers will be willing to pay for Iplayer because they are paying for their internet and as it has been on the internet for free for a long time now, they cannot just come up with a new idea that there should be a license fee. The people that are just watching it on Iplyter without a TV in their household should just be charged or something. They cannot just apply a fee for everyone, even the people who have a TV in their household and are paying the license fee.
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