02 Aug 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
The TV licence fee should be scrapped and the BBC should become a subscription-only service...that the licence fee forces the BBC to replicate a crude commercial model, based on mass-audience advertising, and that the internet and universal broadband make a licence to broadcast obsolete.
Licence fee payers generated 3 ...
. "Ministers accept the principle of the licence fee and some of the reasons why the UK has some of the best ...
16 Jul 1999
| by KAREN YATES
TBWA GGT Simons Palmer continues its humorous campaign against TV
licence fee evasion with a 30...TBWA GGT Simons Palmer continues its humorous campaign against TV
licence fee evasion with a 30-second spot aimed at younger TV
owners.
Called snot my fault , the commercial features four young lads who
share a house. Each blames the others for missing three reminders to pay
the licence ...
24 Jan 2006
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON - The BBC is to be given an above-inflation rise in the TV licence fee, increasing it by 4...the corporation's request for the licence-fee rise.
Murdoch said: "I can't believe what the BBC is doing with a ...
for a licence fee hike of £3.14 a year excluding inflation. This could take the current fee of £126 ...
why the licence fee-payer should foot the bill because they already face covering the costs ...
14 Feb 2003
The culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, has approved a £4 increase in the TV licence fee, ensuring
31 Mar 2009
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The BBC Trust has called on the BBC management to ensure the tone of licence fee....7% to 5.1%. Normal 0 The BBC collects the licence fee through TV Licensing, the trading name ...
Normal 0 The Trust has just published its review of how the licence fee is collected ...
that the tone of reminder letters is "too harsh". Only 33% felt that licence fee communications matched ...
20 Mar 2009
David Cameron, the Tory leader, has said his party would freeze the BBC licence fee for one year...The price of the licence fee, which currently stands at £139.50,
is linked to the rate of inflation until 2012. The BBC Trust responded
by saying that cuts could put services at risk and would not be in the
interests of licence-fee payers. ...
16 May 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
The BBC is running a new campaign by AMV BBDO that promotes the TV Licensing website...with busy lives.
A second TV ad, highlighting how the fee can be paid for in instalments, will appear in June and radio trails will start on 28 May.
Peter Kirk, head of sales and marketing for TV Licensing ...
Featuring the strapline 'Whatever's easiest for you', the campaign started this weekend with a TV ...
15 Apr 2003
| by Claire Billings,
licence fee by calling for the government to consider opening it up to other broadcasters....of digital television?" he said.
Gardam believes that the government should open up the licence fee ...
. Speaking at the Royal Television Society dinner in February, Allen called for 10% of the £2.5bn licence fee ...
to explore our remit with the freedom we would wish."
The BBC's licence fee has long been a subject ...
23 Jan 2007
| by Ian Quinn
Advertisers have rubbished claims by the BBC that last week's below-inflation TV licence fee...Tessa Jowell, under which the licence fee
will rise from £131.50 to £151.50 by 2012, would enable ...
-term view, giving it considerable competitive
advantage." The BBC can also expect licence fee income to rise ...
for licence-fee payers, but we need to get
away from this myth that an organisation that is guaranteed £3.5bn ...
02 Mar 2000
| by EMMA REYNOLDS
on the
consequences of not paying your TV licence fee....on the
consequences of not paying your TV licence fee.
As the ad starts, it has all the appearances of a ...
.
Last week, it was announced that the TV licence fee will be increased by
pounds 3 in April. We ...
The ad for TV licence information has grabbed viewers attention,
reaching number seven ...