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In advance of the broadcast, which the BBC had warned "contains language and content which won't be to some tastes", but mediawatch-uk's director, John Beyer, wrote to the director general to urge the BBC to drop the programme: "Licence fee payers do not expect the BBC to be pushing back boundaries of taste and decency in this way". The BBC ...
Government plans to replace the BBC licence fee are a “massive red herring” to attack the broadcaster, according to a production company boss. Jon Thoday, the joint founder and co-executive ...
The television licence fee is collected by the BBC and primarily used to fund the radio, television and online services of the BBC itself. Licence fee collection is the responsibility of the BBC's Finance and Business division. [5] The BBC also operates as the TV Licensing Authority in the UK, as one of its trade names.
The BBC received £3.7bn from the licence fee in the last financial year, about two-thirds of its total income. However, the corporation has said below-inflation rises in the cost of a TV licence ...
Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, criticised the practice, calling it an "outrageous waste of licence fee payers' money." Following his appointment as Director General, Lord Hall introduced a £150,000 cap on severance payments. [183]
A BBC spokesperson said: “The Government and BBC agreed a six-year licence fee settlement in January 2022, which froze the licence fee for two years with increases in line with inflation from 2024.
Currently the TV licence fee costs £169.50 per year (just over £14 per month). Under the previous government, it was agreed that the TV licence would increase in line with inflation each year ...
The government had expected the committee to report that the television licence fee used to fund the BBC should be scrapped. However, the Peacock Committee favoured retaining the licence fee as they believed it was the 'least worst' option. [2] The immediate recommendations of the report [3] were: BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 should be privatised.