[Jon]

I think anything other than rubber stamping the continuation of the licences is going to be way down the list of priorities of the next government, if it’s not taking any public subsidies. Particularly as any licence extension will presumably take them to the time terrestrial broadcasts are turned off all together.

And if you closed them down on the basis they’re not fulfilling their original remit, you’d also close down ITV and pretty much every commercial radio station in the country.