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BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general

  Tim Davie outlines vision for a world of `infinite choice' where
  broadcast TV and radio are being switched off
  The BBC director general, Tim Davie
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  The BBC director general, Tim Davie. Photograph: Christopher
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  [99]Jim Waterson Media editor
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  The BBC is preparing to shut down its traditional television and radio
  broadcasts as it becomes an online-only service over the next decade,
  according to the director general, [101]Tim Davie.

  "Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio
  are being switched off and choice is infinite," he said. "A switch-off
  of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active
  in planning for it."

  Davie said the [102]BBC was committed to live broadcasting but Britons
  should prepare for the closure of many standalone channels and radio
  stations by the 2030s: "Over time this will mean fewer linear broadcast
  services and a more tailored joined-up online offer."

  The future will involve "bringing the BBC together in a single offer",
  possibly in the form of one app combining everything from television
  programmes to local news coverage and educational material. This could
  ultimately see the end of distinct brands such as [103]BBC One or BBC
  Radio 4, although the programmes they currently air could continue
  online.

  The director general accepted there was a risk that the BBC becomes
  just another online content provider in a crowded marketplace by
  abandoning its traditional broadcast slots on services such as Freeview
  or DAB radio: "Moving to digital is not the challenge in and of itself,
  moving to digital while not losing most of your audience and burning
  millions of pounds unnecessarily is the challenge."

  Although the BBC's television and radio channels continue to reach tens
  of millions of Britons a month, almost all of its outlets are seeing
  long-term declines in their live audiences. Davie has already announced
  plans to [104]shift CBBC and BBC Four to online-only, with other
  channels expected to follow suit in the coming years. Traditional
  television audience numbers remain high among older people but the
  average BBC One viewer is in their 60s and younger viewers are drifting
  off completely.

  He said a challenge is how to reach the millions of Britons - often
  older, poorer, or in rural areas - who do not have a strong internet
  connection and could be cut off from an online-only BBC.

  Davie's speech to the Royal Television Society included pleas to
  politicians and regulators to provide the corporation with more money
  and fewer restrictions on what it could do. The BBC is also starting to
  look ahead to the possibility of a Labour government giving it a more
  generous funding settlement after 12 years of Conservative-led
  administrations imposing real-terms cuts on the national broadcaster.

  In another sign that the days of the licence fee are numbered, Davie
  said he was "open-minded" about finding a new model for funding the
  BBC. The government is already considering alternatives for when the
  current deal expires at the end of 2027. Many other countries have
  abolished their licence fees and replaced them with new funding models
  for public broadcasters, [105]with options including direct taxation or
  levies on household broadband connections.

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