16 Sep 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - There is significant backing for plans to use a small proportion of the TV licence fee...0 0 In its survey, 65% of respondents said a small part of the licence fee should be used ...
% who said the licence fee should be used only for the BBC. In addition, most respondents, 71%, said ...
Lyons in a letter to licence fee- payers sent last week (9 September), when Lyons said he was concerned ...
12 May 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
partnership deal with BBC Worldwide, or hand it part of the TV licence fee to help address the broadcaster...such a venture would exploit some of their respective TV, online and print offerings. "Discussions have ...
30 Jun 2009
| by Arif Durrani
"really coherent Government statement" and has called suggestions to top-slice the TV licence fee to part...and the Government for some form of funding, "either directly or indirectly" from investment through the television licence fee, as a solution to secure regional news plurality. "If Parliament does want an alternative ...
, determined to "drive a wedge" into the principle of BBC licence fee funding. Grade added that ITV stood ...
23 Jun 2009
| by Tess Alps
the government task and cash for digital switchover. This is still a linear TV licence fee, yet it funds all BBC ...
't if you only watch catch-up TV via iPlayer. I doubt the average licence fee-payer understands that ...
the licence fee to facilitate digital switchover by 2012, and therefore theoretically "available" from ...
16 Jun 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Commercial media players could gain direct access to £130m plus of the licence fee...However, the cash appears destined to come from licence fee money already set aside ...
?" Consequently, the Government plans to consult on the formation of a new fund, derived from the licence fee ...
.5% of the licence fee - currently some 130m - could be used to create a new "contestable" fund. The fund would ...
19 May 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
looking to top-slice the licence fee to help embattled commercial players....the licence fee to help the elderly and disadvantage pay for the switch to digital TV - to fund the universal ...
to any more general use of the licence fee to pay for things that don't fall within the BBC's public ...
regulators' and ultimately not the BBC's. It's the public's money. It's licence fee payers' money. People ...
16 Dec 2011
| by Mark Banham
The BBC is to pitch its £5m media planning and buying account for its Licence Fee and Marketing...Peter Kirk, head of sales and marketing for BBC TV Licensing, said: "The type of media bought by the BBC has changed over the last few years, with a steady rise in digital space and outdoor media.
"More than half of the media bought by BBC Marketing Audiences last year was digital, giving us ...
09 Sep 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
to licence fee-payers, outlining his "concern" at moves to share the fee with commercial rivals....digital switchover is concluded, about 3.5% of the licence fee could be used to help fund commercial media players. But today (9 September), Lyons said he was concerned about "any attempt to use the licence fee ...
accountability to licence fee- payers and could, in time, lead to a bigger licence fee, because it could merge ...
26 Nov 2008
| by Arif Durrani
with £14m from the BBC licence fee, admitting the debate had "moved on significantly"....unfair competition. The decision to shelve plans to top slice the licence fee follows Channel 4 warning ...
20 Jan 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
Ofcom has slashed the cost of Global Radio's and UTV's licences for Classic FM and TalkSport after...licences to be renewed without a competitive auction in return for support for the DAB platform from radio companies.
The licences for Classic FM and TalkSport will now be set at 10,000 a year for the next seven ...
for an extension of its AM licence.
In October 2010 Ofcom said it was considering the value of the licences to a ...