2010-08-28
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quote 10:22:32
“ Over 90% of UK households already have digital television today, more than 70% already have broadband. In other words, they’re already living in a digital Britain yet their support for the licence fee is higher than it was in analogue households twenty-five years ago. The purists have spent a generation making the free-market case for abolishing the licence fee and the British public agrees with them less now than they did when they started. ”
More from BBC D-G Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart lecture (transcript at The Guardian)
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quote 10:15:00
“ Sky’s marketing budget is larger than the entire programme budget of ITV1. ”
Mark Thompson, BBC Director-General, during the MacTaggart lecture (transcript at The Guardian)
