BBC Director-General Tim Davie on funding, impartiality and social exclusion
Session chair Amol Rajan: Is the licence fee the least bad option for funding the BBC?
Tim Davie: Yes…. If you believe in universal broadcasting… the licence fee, for all its problems, [has] enabled a few things: the BBC has been able to keep [to] its mission, it’s kept us independent [and] impartial; and it provides a certainty of funding in the medium term….