Dear Auntie...

The question of the TV licence fee is in the news again. I am old enough to remember when the only telly available was the BBC (and you only got it between about 7.30 and 10.30 in the evening at that!). Back then it was quite logical to have to pay for this service - as indeed you had to pay for wireless (radio) before that. But today? Why should the BBC be subsidised by the licence fee, when there are so many competitors who have to find their own money by advertisement or whatever? I think the BBC do a marvelous job, but I can't see any reason why they should not have to fight their own corner, like everybody else has to do.