We'd better get on with abolishing the BBC tax

The Chairman of the BBC tells us that if the licence fee tax is abolished and the institution moved over to a subscription fee arrangement then:

He argued that a move to a subscription model would mean a loss of earnings for the BBC that would lead to popular programmes being axed and that the introduction of Netflix-style payments could result in the loss of public service programming in a race to attract paying viewers.

We are being told two contradictory things. That the BBC would stop producing unpopular things in order to chase ratings and also, at the same time, that the BBC would stop producing popular things which bring in the ratings.

Looks like we’d better get on with the subscription model then. Who wants to leave several billion pounds a year of public money in the charge of someone so terminally confused?