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"BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned Parliament against weakening the corporation by top-slicing the licence fee and using it to fund public service broadcasting on other broadcasters. While giving evidence to the House of Lords Communications Committee, Thompson said: &amp;quot;I would need much convincing that top-slicing the licence fee is the right way forward. I believe there are very, very strong arguments against top-slicing the licence fee.&amp;quot; Top-slicing the licence fee would result in the BBC handing over some of the revenue raised to fund, for example, children&amp;#039;s programming and regional news on ITV. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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