BBC licence fee

The BBC is panicking as threats are made to remove the licence fee and tunr the BeeB into a supcription service .  Personally there are some merits in this.  I certainly don't want it to be turned into a commercial enterprise with adverts or we end up with TV at the lowest common denominator - game shows and reality tv.  Cheap to produce and appealing to the tabloid reader. There is a need to reduce the number of channels the BBC runs.  Lets keep BBC 1 and BBC2  and I Player.  Keep Radio 4 although the "Today" Programme can do with a rethink.  Keep Radio 3 as well although I don't listen to it. The rest the commercial sector can do the rest well enough.  The World Service is also a great station. I listen through the night and they have some great programmes - news coverage is much better.  At a later date I'll talk in more detail about news coverage - no time now.
So BBC start getting your act together and spend the money making great programmes on fewer channels - that should help the budget