article_snippet: The director-general’s speech at Broadcasting House in London comes just a week after a report by the MPs on the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee said the £145.50-a-year TV licence fee system was outdated and should be replaced.
article_snippet: We’ve always said that the licence fee should be updated to reflect changing times.
article_snippet: I welcome the committee’s endorsement of We proposal to make people pay the licence fee even if people only watch catch-up television.
article_snippet: ‘the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has suggested another route to modernising the licence fee – a universal household levy.
article_snippet: Both proposals have the same goal in mind: adapting the licence fee for the internet age.
article_snippet: the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee Sport Committee said the £145.50-a-year TV licence fee system was outdated and should be replaced .
article_snippet: I believe we need and we will need what the licence fee – in whatever form – makes happen more than ever.
highlights_snippet: Comes after licence fee was branded outdated in a report by MPs last week .