Social media users today called Tim Davie’s bluff and told him to ‘drop the licence fee and offer an annual subscription’ after the BBC director-general […]
BARONESS KATE HOEY has led demands from peers for the Government to decriminalise the BBC TV licence fee. Last week Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden scrapped […]
THE BBC’s presenter Gary Lineker could see his job come under threat if Kelvin MacKenzie is successful in his bid to become Chairman of the […]
BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 offer little that cannot be provided by commercial radio and should not be funded by the licence fee in […]
Boris Johnson disagrees with Dominic Cummings over plans to scrap the BBC licence fee, it was claimed last night. Boris Johnson wants ‘reform rather than […]
Ministers start process of shaking up broadcaster’s funding Boris Johnson’s government will launch its first strike on BBC funding next week, opening a formal process […]
The BBC could switch away from the licence fee to a Netflix-style voluntary subscription model, the director-general acknowledged yesterday. The compulsory licence fee system is […]
The BBC announced on Monday that it will abolish free TV licences for the over-75s, a right that the elderly have enjoyed for years. The […]
BBC bosses are planning to toughen enforcement of the licence fee after a spike in the number of people evading the charge. The ‘evasion rate’ […]
The BBC is preparing the ground for a new licence fee settlement after the director-general warned that current services could not be sustained without an […]
JEREMY Paxman has called on the BBC to scrap the licence fee and charge viewers like Netflix. Mr Paxman, 67, the host of Newsnight for […]
MORE than 100,000 people have signed a petition to abolish the BBC’s controversial licence fee – initiating a debate in Parliament later this year. On […]
BT is in talks towards a deal worth tens of millions of pounds for full ownership of YouView, its set-top box technology joint venture with […]
FURIOUS viewers have demanded licence fee refunds from the BBC after the Are You Being Served? remake fell flat with fans. Many devotees lashed out […]
Television viewers caught dodging the BBC licence fee should face greater fines if they have been watching Sky or other subscription channels, magistrates were told […]
BBC bosses accused of “propaganda” after boasting about how it converted licence fee sceptics after depriving them of radio, television and internet news for nine […]
THE BBC has sparked outrage for using licence fee cash to film its flagship religious show Songs of Praise from a notorious migrant camp in […]
Of course celebrities want the licence fee – they’ve done rather well out of it. But for millions of taxpayers it is an onerous and […]
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