Letter: Mark Tully: the BBC will regret the loss of its 'old dinosaur'

Saturday 16 July 1994 23:02 BST

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THE GOVERNMENT's decision to continue with the licence fee as the BBC's source of funding for its two British terrestrial channels thankfully ensures the preservation of the highest quality public service broadcasting for which the country can be proud.

What a pity the Government did not show the same reluctance to change independent television when it introduced the 1990 Broadcasting Act.

Lee Adam Dobson

Coal Aston, Derbyshire

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