<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt">Marilyn<br><br>Unfortunately competition destroys the small people. Supermarkets have beaten local shops. Cheap foreign goods destroyed British industry. <br><br>The BBC is badly-run, expensive and inefficient but there will be no innovation or dynamism if commerce gets its hands on the cash.<br><br>Let's make a small start - allow community media to merge with BBC local radio - and test the water first, before allowing Collete Bowes' ideas to emerge.<br><br>That's just the view of an economist (LSE) challenging an economist from Queen Mary College. I'd be happy to debate that contention - in support of the little people.<br><br>I explored this a little in a recent blog: <a href="http://www.trevorlockwood.com/myth-competition/">http://www.trevorlockwood.com/myth-competition/</a> It is a fallacy that should be
challenged<br><br>Trevor <br><div><span><br></span></div><br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marilyn Hyndman <marilyn@northernvisions.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CMA-L <cma-l@commedia.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 16 February 2014, 11:24<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [cma-l] The Guardian 14/02/14 - Ofcom boss: 'BBC licence fee should be shared with other broadcasters'<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv659606355"><div>Press statement from the sector?<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 14 Feb 2014, at 18:38, CMA-L
wrote:</div><br class="yiv659606355Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div id="yiv659606355article-body-blocks">The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc" title="More from the Guardian on BBC">BBC</a>
licence fee should be shared with other broadcasters to promote
"competition, dynamism and innovation", according to the outgoing chair
of media regulator <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/ofcom" title="More from the Guardian on Ofcom">Ofcom</a>.<div>Colette Bowe said she thought some <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc-licence-fee" title="More from the Guardian on BBC licence fee">BBC licence fee</a> funding should be "contestable", with other media companies allowed to bid to make public service broadcasting programming.</div><div>"I
am an economist. There is a lot to be said for contestable funding on
competition grounds ... The counter argument is that once you start
stripping away great chunks of funding you weaken the stability [of the
BBC]," Bowe said on Thursday night, at a Royal Television Society all
party parliamentary group dinner <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/17/colette-bowe-confirmed-as-ofcom-chair" title="">marking her departure from Ofcom after five years as chair</a>.</div><div>"I
have got sympathy with the idea that some more of the funding currently
available for public service broadcasting should be contestable.
Because on the whole I am on the side of the people in the sector who
believe that what we need is even more competition and dynamism and
innovation than we have got."</div><div>Bowe added that examples such as the
Labour government's abandoned plan to use licence fee money to fund
local news showed that it was "very, very difficult to see a way to make
[contestable] work" in practice, but this "doesn't mean there is not a
good reason to do it".</div><div>"I think the challenge for the BBC, leaving
aside political will to continue with a hypothecated tax, the challenge
is going to be enforcing the payment for the licence fee," she said, in
the face of technological changes.</div><div>Bowe served as an Ofcom board member for several years before taking over as the media regulator's chair in 2009.</div><div>She is stepping down on 31 March, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/04/dame-patricia-hodgson-favourite-chair-ofcom-bbc" title="">to be replaced by Dame Patricia Hodgson</a>, the former BBC policy director and trustee who is Ofcom deputy chair.</div>
</div><b>Maggie Brown, Friday 14 February 2014 17.50 GMT<br><br></b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/ofcom-bbc-licence-fee-shared-other-broadcasters">http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/ofcom-bbc-licence-fee-shared-other-broadcasters</a><br>
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