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Alas, if anything RTE is likely to have to become more commercial, any hopes of a license fee raise (or “reform”) are now dashed and the amount the license fee is worth to them will continue to dwindle year on year. There have been calls for Sound and Vision, the Media Commission’s license fee sharing scheme, to get a much bigger share of the license fee.

I fear their future isn’t the BBC, but becoming something more like TVNZ, a State-owned but otherwise fully commercial broadcaster, forced to bid for what share of the license fee it does ultimately end up with.