article_snippet: Last week, the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee said the £145.50-a-year charge was ‘anachronistic’ and should be scrapped within the next decade in favour of a flat-rate broadcast levy on all households.
article_snippet: Even if the licence fee is axed, BBC Director-general Lord Tony Hall said the licence fee should be replaced by an equivalent charge.
article_snippet: I think the committee’s report should really be commended because they have raised something which says, you know what, the licence fee isn’t dead,’ he said.
article_snippet: MPs said last week that a blanket levy on all households – not just those with televisions – should replace the licence fee which has funded the BBC the BBC for the past 69 years.
article_snippet: Yesterday, BBC Director-general Lord Tony Hall backed a blanket levy on all households – not just those with televisions – should replace the licence fee which has funded the BBC for the past 69 years, but said a blanket levy on all households – not just those with televisions – should replace the licence fee which has funded the BBC for the past 69 years was simply
article_snippet: ‘another way of the licence fee being modernised’.
highlights_snippet: Lord Hall believes the licence fee ‘has got at least ten years in Lord Hall’
  Lord Hall said even if the licence fee is axed, the licence fee should be replaced by a charge .
  
highlights_snippet: Follows critique from MPs that a charge is ‘anachronistic’ 