Business
National Audit Office: BBC can’t compete with Netflix due to funding cuts
UK's public spending watchdog says the BBC's products have been developed at a slower pace, and are less technologically sophisticated due to funding cuts
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Government, BBC show ‘lack of urgency’ on plans for broadcaster’s future
Cross-party Lords Communications and Digital Committee says there is a "disappointing lack of urgency" in preparing for the future of the BBC
Business
French MPs vote to end licence fee
Gabriel Attal, minister of public accounts, said the decision to axe the licence fee would “not jeopardise the funding or the independence of public...
Business
Lords: BBC faces “stagnation and decline” if it fails to respond to urgent challenges
A report by a cross-party committee suggests a universal household levy linked to council tax bills is one alternative to the BBC's licence fee
Media Delivery
BBC to axe CBBC, BBC Four; wants to reach 75 per cent of audience via iPlayer every week
Director general Tim Davie said: “This is our moment to build a digital-first BBC. Something genuinely new, a Reithian organisation for the digital age,...
Media Consumption
BBC: You’d miss us if we were gone
“Deprivation study”, conducted by MTM, involved 80 homes who had their BBC services withdrawn for nine days
Business
House of Lords opens inquiry into the future of the BBC’s funding
Among the questions the inquiry will ask is 'how will new technologies and consumer habits change the future broadcasting landscape?'
Business
Moving BBC to a subscription service ‘would undermine tenets of Public Service Broadcasting’
A new report from Enders Analysis looks at what impact a move to a subscription-based model could have on the BBC and TV viewing...
Business
Davie: ‘I’m excited about re-engineering the BBC’
BBC director general refuses to rule out linear channel closures
Business
What next for the BBC?
Following the news that the UK government is freezing the licence fee ahead of a possible move to a subscription-based model, TVBEurope looks at...
Business
Whittingdale: Let viewers “switch off” BBC
“The BBC will need to think about whether it needs to make so much content"
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Whittingdale: BBC licence fee will remain until everyone has access to high-speed broadband
Culture minister again raised the idea of turning the BBC into a subscription service
Business
John Whittingdale: Scrapping licence fee is “politically impossible”
Prime Minister reportedly favours "reform rather than revolution"
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Making the BBC a subscription service would be “hugely positive” for UK media industry
Government said to be planning to push the BBC to a subscription model
Business
BBC chairman: “A degree of reality” needed in licence fee conversation
Broadcaster "would not be the BBC that the nation knows and values" with a subscription model
Business
DCMS launches consultation over licence fee evasion
Culture Secretary warns of BBC "ending up like Blockbuster"
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BBC chairman dismisses Netflix-style subscription model
Sir David Clementi criticises "linear regulation in a digital age"
TVBEverywhere
House of Lords calls for PSB support
"If we fail to support our PSBs, audiences would miss them when they're gone."
Business
Ireland drops TV licence for new ‘broadcasting charge’
Charge will apply to all households who use tablets, laptops and other devices to watch content
Business
European licence fees ‘have never been better value’
EBU releases annual Licence Fee report
Business
All S4C funding to come from licence fee by 2022
Independent review looked at sustainability of Welsh-language channel
Business
“New beginning” as Swiss vote to retain licence fee
Overwhelming 71 per cent of public choose to continue paying annual charge
Business
Government ups TV licence fee
The annual TV licence fee will increase to £147 from £145.50 on 1 April this year. The increase marks the first rise in the...
Data Centre
UK public backs licence fee
The UK public back the annual licence fee to fund pubcaster the BBC, although many think the price is too high, according to the...
Business
BBC Studios to cut 300 jobs
BBC Studios is set to cut 300 jobs in order to ensure it is ‘in the right shape for the future’ according to the...
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BBC salary reveals ‘not in the interests’ of licence fee payers
Revealing the salaries of its highest-paid stars would not be in the interest of licence fee payers, according to BBC content and sport director...
News
TVBEverywhere
Non-licence payers to lose 4,000 hours of BBC content
Households not holding a TV licence will lose out on 4,000 hour of BBC iPlayer content when payment for the service becomes mandatory on...
News
Data Centre
TV licence desertion could cost BBC £1.4 billion
Research by broadband and TV comparison site Broadband Genie has found more than nine million Brits could drop their TV licence in favour of...
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Business
BBC to fund provision of free television licences for over-75s
The UK government has reached an agreement with the BBC that it will take on the cost of providing free television licences for over-75s.
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BBC to start charging for iPlayer?
Viewers could soon be charged for watching content on BBC iPlayer, as chancellor George Osborne announced cuts in government funding.
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BBC licence fee “has no long-term future”
A committee of MPs has decided to support the retention of the BBC licence fee for the next decade, however, has stated the license...