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The Ukip leader says the corporation should be 'cut back to the bone' and that it should become a 'purely public service broadcaster'

The BBC should be “cut back to the bone” and stop producing popular entertainment programming, Nigel Farage has said.

The Ukip leader said he wanted to see the BBC dramatically shrunk and only produce "public service" output - defined by regulator Ofcom as programmes broadcast "for the public benefit".

The move could see the end of more frivolous entertainment programmes like Doctor Who, Strict Come Dancing, and Top Gear.

“Do I think the BBC needs to involve itself and engage itself in many other fields of entertainment and sport, given the whole world has changed with cable television and satellite television? No,” he told a public meeting in Rochester.

“I would like to see the BBC cut back to the bone to be purely a public service broadcaster with an international reach, and I would have thought you could do that with a licence fee that was about a third of what it currently is.”

Examples of public service broadcasting given by Ofcom include "local news coverage, arts programmes and religious broadcasts".

Mr Farage said he did not want to see the corporation entirely privatised but that the licence fee should be cut to about £50 a year, a two-thirds reduction in income.

source: the independent

I'm guessing he means the voice as well

Public involvement shows make money for the broadcaster but judging by what he's saying I don't think money is the main problem.

Just another excuse for him to be a ****