Not quite "in competition". If I understand the way TV licenses work (or perhaps worked, in the past) in the UK, you didn't have a choice of paying for the BBC if you had a TV at all.
If that has changed, it might lead to the BBC having to face competition now, when it didn't in the past. That might have an effect on the content, which might be (at least part of) what the article is observing...
If that has changed, it might lead to the BBC having to face competition now, when it didn't in the past. That might have an effect on the content, which might be (at least part of) what the article is observing...