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There’s been a CAS on UK DTT before, in the days of ONdigital and Top-Up TV, that’s not insurmountable.

But a subscription BBC won’t look anything like a FTA BBC. It would probably look more like Sky, bidding for the kind of content that attracts premium subscribers - premium sports rights, Hollywood movies and shows. It would probably still make major British dramas and other scripted output, and reality TV. However do not expect that the type of content that populates BBC Two and Four would be made any more, at least to the extent that it is now.

In fact in the battle for subs it would probably be Sky’s biggest competitor. I’d expect a subscription BBC to bet the house on winning an FAPL live rights package very early on. It’s the biggest driver of pay tv subs in the UK market and an essential purchase for a player the size of the BBC, if it wants to (or rather is forced to) play in the subscription tv market

But a public service broadcaster, it won’t be. Maybe Channel 4 and ITV would occupy that space.