But he added that “nobody” else on the committee agreed with Mr Ibbotson that public service programmes, such as arts shows, would be funded by a subscription mechanism.”People should not be forced to do things,” he said referring to making subscribers pay for public service television. But he said that subscription allowed the public to demonstrate its preferences. “I want a not-for-profit subscription model, so that subscription is not just a stepping stone to privatisation,” he said.The corporation’s £2.5bn-a-year funding from the licence fee will come under government scrutiny ahead of the renewal of its charter in 2006.Mr Elstein said that Mr Ibbotson was not disagreeing with the report as such, as the document does not yet exist. The news led to speculation that the team writing the report, led by David Elstein, the former chief executive of Channel 5, is set to recommend a radically pro-market way to fund the BBC.It is thought that the study will recommend that the corporation be funded by subscription. It was asking all the right questions.”The question is, what form of BBC you end up with. There’s a necessity for something whose motives are not pure market delivery.”Mr Ibbotson said there were different forms of subscription funding, including ones that were not based on “profit maximisation”.

It used its nine cameras to take at least 3,900 pictures of its surroundings. Mission scientists used those images, including sweeping panoramas, to chart the rover’s planned movements.The $820m (£450m) project also includes a second, identical rover named Opportunity. Spirit’s twin should land on the opposite side of the Red Planet on 24 January. Sojourner, the much smaller rover that Nasa landed on Mars in 1997, spent one day on top of the Pathfinder lander before moving off to roam.. On its way, it will prospect for geological evidence that the now dry planet was once wetter and hospitable to life. Spirit landed in the middle of Gusev Crater, a 95-mile-wide depression scientists believe was once a lake.Even while parked, the vehicle was busy. Spirit had to turn 115 degrees to line up with one of the exit ramps that ring the lander.Originally, Spirit was to roll straight off the lander on its ninth day on Mars.

But the now-deflated air bags that cushioned the rover’s landing blocked that way, forcing Spirit to perform a slow pirouette, turning clockwise in three separate moves.Mission plans called for Spirit to spend several days parked beside its lander after rolling off, giving it time to find its bearings and perform a preliminary analysis of the soil and rocks around it.Nasa then planned for Spirit to begin a meandering trip in the direction of an impact crater about 825 feet away Spirit was designed to travel dozens of yards a day. Engineers said the move was likely to be the riskiest of Spirit’s three-month mission. Engineers delayed the move for three days to give Spirit time to reposition itself on top of its lander, where it had sat since arriving. Spirit has landed,” said Rob Manning, manager of the entry, descent and landing portion of the mission. “Our wheels are finally dirty.”Jennifer Trosper, the mission manager for surface operations, opened a bottle of champagne in celebration at a news conference. “Now we are the mission that we all envisioned three and a half years ago,” she said.Mr Elachi made reference to President George Bush’s call on Wednesday for moon missions and long-term robotic and human journeys to Mars “We at Nasa, we move awfully fast,” he joked. “In less than 15 hours, we are doing our first step.”Spirit was to have taken less than two minutes to travel the three metres from the unfolded petals of its lander on to Mars.