THE BBC shouldn't be considering scrapping free TV licences for the over-75s, indeed, they should be getting rid of the licence fee altogether.
The corporation should have been deregulated years ago and advertising brought in as their main source of revenue.
The ITV(and its regional areas) plus Channels 4 and 5 manage perfectly well without this £150.50 handout from each household every year.
OK,so none of them will ever be able to financially worry Netflix or Amazon Prime ,but viewers will always pay out extra for those channel's output,as they will for Sky and BT,but why, as the BBC continues to lose programmes and major sporting events to other channels,as well as hideously overpaying their directors and presenters,should we have to pay this outrageous levy for a terrestrial channel.
ERIC TRAVERS,
Gellatly Road,
Dunfermline,
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