In a message dated 21/03/2005 15:18:23 GMT Standard Time, tim@powys.org writes: > I agree that this is little more than an urban legend. If there were > real difficulty in collecting the BBC's income from TV licences, then > the simplest answer would be to allow it to collect income from > sponsors. This would save all of us the licence fee each year, none of > which ends up as government revenue so the government would not lose out > either. Indeed and as well the red tape in our existences would > diminish marginally. Can't be bad. > On sponsorship, this is unlikely to come without strings. The licence fee might not be spent according to government decisions, but funding of the BBC by sponsorship or advertisements would affect us all. An even simpler answer would be funding of the BBC out of taxation. Like sponsorship, the cure would be worse than the disease. I don't see how red tape would be diminished. In conclusion, I can't help feeling this thread has become a tiny bit OT. Regards, Colin Mills