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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The coalition government is looking at plans to slash the TV licence fee as part of its ongoing...of stories where the way that licence-fee payers' funds are used is not appropriate." The announcement ... . In reaction, former Labour culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, has said that a reduction in the licence fee would ... Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Hunt said that the annual 145.50 fee could "absolutely" fall ...
LONDON - The government has agreed a below-inflation BBC TV licence fee increase, rising by 3...the next seven years from April 2007, which would have made the annual TV licence fee cost around £180 ... will be raised through the TV licence fee, to ensure the most vulnerable in society are assisted in the digital ... % licence fee rise be finalised, next year's TV licence fee will cost £135.45. If you have an opinion ...
LONDON - The House of Lords has called the increase in the TV licence fee 'excessive' and attacked...for failing to consult Parliament about the new licence fee and charter review and called for Parliament ... of an annual increase of RPI plus 2.3% is excessive and will result in a licence fee of £180 by 2014. It argues ... that it is concerned the government is loading extra costs onto the licence fee. In particular, ministers propose ...
LONDON – The TV licence fee is going up above the rate of inflation by £5.50 to £126.50 from April...In a written statement to the House, Jowell said: "The television licence fee settlement ... , as agreed in 2000. From 2006, when the new BBC 10-year Royal Charter comes into existence, a new licence fee funding formula will be agreed. The 2006 fee is likely to be less than than the existing one ...
LONDON - The BBC has hit back at suggestions that it is abusing the TV licence fee to subsidise...sector so severely that the only explanation was that licence fee money was picking up the bill ... on several occasions, and called for any new BBC licence-fee funded service to be regulated by Ofcom rather ... ensures that it could not be encroaching on licence fee money because BBC Worldwide is only allowed to put ...
of the TV licence fee....chairman, and Kevin Lygo, director of television and content, laid out the Next on 4 blueprint ... getting their first break on television every day -- anything from a script by a new writer, a first ... greater share of public funding, the often talked about grab for a slice of the BBC s dwindling licence ...
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