Apparently James Purnell will tell the BBC that from 2013, a portion of the television license fee will be given to other broadcasters with a public service remit. More info here.
This is a good idea if it actually leads to an improvement in the public service content of other broadcasters. We're not going to pay for ITV to keep making Tonight with Trevor McDonald, because they are doing it already.
What this debate really needs to lead to is the abolition of the license fee. If this regressive tax made sense before (a big if), because it was money to pay for a specific service from a specific institution, then it will not make any sense in the future.
There is no Health license fee, nor an Education license fee. Let's start seeing the state's cultural interventions as a public service, not only in terms of its institutional home. This does not mean the institution will not exist (the NHS exists without that separate health tax), but actually strengthens its argument as a provider of a valuable service.
RB
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