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Davie has reportedly been urged to create a viable financing model to replace the fee when he takes up his new role on Tuesday. It is understood that the new CEO will not speak about the disputes over license fees during his first speech later this week.
Davie will have to think of a workable model for the BBC or risk difficulties when the Corporation’s charter is renewed in 2027.
A conservative minister said there is “real optimism” at the BBC that it can survive without paying the license.
They told the Telegraph: “There is real optimism that the BBC will present an acceptable alternative to the license fee.
“Tim Davie seems open to the idea of a subscription model.”
The news comes amid reports that ministers will announce the decriminalization of the license fee.
Starting in 2022, people who have failed to pay their license fee will face civil penalties rather than criminal prosecution.
The BBC’s licensing rights bill will have its second reading in parliament in November.
A BBC spokesperson said: “The license fee is a way of financing the BBC until at least 2027 and our aim is to provide the best possible value to the public that pays for us.”
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Earlier this month, the BBC warned BBC Breakfast’s Naga Munchetty that he risked a “conflict of interest” after he presented a public relations video for Aston Martin.
Munchetty earns £ 190,000 a year on the BBC.
But he charges up to £ 10,000 a time to organize or moderate events, according to the Speakers Associates agency.
Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, came under fire from health activists after he delivered a speech to executives at the tobacco giant Philip Morris’s conference last year.
He has also spoken at JP Morgan bank events.
Sopel’s BBC salary is £ 240,000.
The BBC has faced a number of controversies over its decision last week to perform the songs Land of Hope And Glory and Rule Britannia without their patriotic lyrics on Last Night Of The Proms.
On Friday, Davie’s predecessor Lord Tony Hall said the BBC was not a “corporation awake.”
He insisted that the removal of the lyrics in Last Night Of The Proms was done because it would not have been possible to do the songs justice without an audience at the Royal Albert Hall.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused the Corporation of “shameful shame about our history.”
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