The license fee has been the funding for the BBC for the last 50 years. The BBC has a good reputation for broadcasting quality output in many fields and genres.
The BBC earns a huge amount for this country selling its series, films and documentaries.
Should it be put at risk by changes to this funding when it has been so successful in the past?
February 2022 Announcement:
Nadine Dorries, UK culture secretary said today that the license fee will be frozen for 2 years, operate under a new funding mechanism after 2027. Although it was also stated that this was not yet policy only a discussion, it sent shockwaves through the broadcasting community, is the end of our major brand – the BBC – in sight? Are we now doomed to see Ads on all our channels?
Elsewhere there are warnings that our yearly fee is to be hiked up in its last few years. Well who knows?
December 2019
Many European countries like Belgium, Holland and Norway have scrapped their own license for TV , as the election looms tomorrow, will the conservatives change it, modify it or even scrap it altogether.
As reported by broadbandtvnews.com
The Conservative leader has warned the BBC that its present funding model cannot be guaranteed.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “certainly looking at” how the BBC receives its income, currently derived from the £154.50 payable by any adult under the age of 75 with a television.
Answering a question from a member of the public while campaigning in the North East on Monday he said: “Well, I don’t think at this late stage in the campaign I’m going to make an unfunded spending commitment like that.
“But what I certainly think is that the BBC should cough up and pay for the licences for the over-75s as they promised to do.
“But at this stage we are not planning to get rid of all TV licence fees, though I am certainly looking at it.”
In October, a group of MPs called on the Government to restore free TV licences to those over the age of 75 who are not in receipt of pension credit.
In its report the committee said it “was possible that the BBC never intended to fully fund the over 75s licences beyond 2020”, but this had not been included in the minutes amid tense negotiations.
Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Malta, Belgium, The Netherlands, Finland, Norway, and Iceland have all abolished their licence fees.
There is no licence fee in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
