[Keith]

So if the BBC is in such a dire financial situation, then what the heck is it doing with £3.5+Billion it gets from the TVL, plus the additional £1.5billion from commercial activities?

I'd suggest you take a look at their most recent annual report, notably www.bbc.co.uk  (which is actually page 53) which shows a breakdown of how it's spent by department. There's probably other pages within this report which give other breakdowns of expenditure, such as people (and severance pay) on page 59.

I don't want the BBC to no longer exist, but the TV Licence fee needs to go away and the BBC needs to find a different method of funding before the Charter renewal in 2027.

A universal household levy linked to council tax bills was being suggested in a House of Lords report back in July 2022, ref committees.parliament.uk . This is probably the most practical alternative to the licence fee to implement. It would then be fairly straightforward to offer discounts for single occupancy and those with SMI.

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  Source: committees.parliament.uk

[F4C]

The BBC’s issue is that it is trying too hard to do too many things.

People expect it to produce ground-breaking content, a world-class news service, the best online services, a World Service and local and national radio, and umpteen channels whilst having its funding reduced year-on-year annually.

The BBC needs to make popular shows for its own existence, but there needs to be a serious debate about what role the BBC will play in the future. It will inevitably do less, so there will need to be a conversation about what the BBC should and shouldn’t do.

It’s trying to serve people who want Strictly and MOTD whilst serving people who want The Archers and the Proms. Something is going to have to give.

[Kim Wexler’s Ponytail]

The BBC’s issue is that it is trying too hard to do too many things.

People expect it to produce ground-breaking content, a world-class news service, the best online services, a World Service and local and national radio, and umpteen channels whilst having its funding reduced year-on-year annually.

The BBC needs to make popular shows for its own existence, but there needs to be a serious debate about what role the BBC will play in the future. It will inevitably do less, so there will need to be a conversation about what the BBC should and shouldn’t do.

It’s trying to serve people who want Strictly and MOTD whilst serving people who want The Archers and the Proms. Something is going to have to give.

Neither an all populist or all worthy BBC would be value for money if most people liked what they had when it was both. People complain Radio 1 is too popular and 6Music is too niche. Nobody will ''win'' going one way or the other.

[Neil Jones]

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all the time.

[Milkshake]

Part of the problem is for the last 30 years the BBC has been ignoring Teenagers, Its been said many times around here, the BBC expects kids to stay with them until 12 go away then come back in there 20's that Cleary that isn't happening.

[F4C]

Neither an all populist or all worthy BBC would be value for money if most people liked what they had when it was both. People complain Radio 1 is too popular and 6Music is too niche. Nobody will ''win'' going one way or the other.

I think it depends what funding model the BBC takes. The licence fee is on borrowed time and it’s a matter of when, not if, it get dumped. 

Advertising- won’t happen, ITV/Sky/Channel 4 will go berserk at the idea of the BBC jumping into an already crowded and declining advertising market. BBC will have to go populist to claw as much revenue as possible. 

Subscription- will be extremely difficult. Big portion of BBC’s audience are over-60 and getting them to buy equipment and pay subscription will be a challenge. 

And shutting the BBC down will be near-suicidal for all involved….

[Blubatt]

The BBC could still cut loads of things:
-Reduce BBC News regions to North, South, East, and West
- Bring back closedowns for all BBC Channels after 00:00
- have all programmes hosted by the same host
- Just get rid of local radio and launch BBC Radio 8
- Just go back to Black and White

[ACTV]

Part of the problem is for the last 30 years the BBC has been ignoring Teenagers, Its been said many times around here, the BBC expects kids to stay with them until 12 go away then come back in there 20's that Cleary that isn't happening.

They did try catering to teenagers with BBC Switch but that didn't take off. The launch of BBC Switch also led to the narrowing of CBBC's target age range leading to the demises of both Byker Grove and Grange Hill.

BBC Three seems to be making some concerted efforts to cater to teens nowadays, but mostly limited to shoving kids content into the 7pm slot. Crazy Fun Park (which aired on ABC ME in it's home country of Australia, their CBBC equivalent) ran on there in October with the new Gremlins cartoon a week or two later. They also shown The Next Step last year. I appreciate their effort but it does come across as slightly half hearted and nothing more than an extra hour of CBBC.

[Technologist]

This is what teenagers ARE viewing …
www.ofcom.org.uk 

[cable]

in the last 30 years there has been an explosion in multichannel, the BBC needs to play to its strengths on things that the commercial sector does not touch.

Now is the beginning of the end for traditional linear, the days of being all things to all people are over. personalisation has been a key of many streaming services.