A Vast Website That Also Does Some Broadcasting We will develop and distribute guidance material to raise awareness and deliver clarity on the legal implications of cancelling your TV licence now, so that you can do so without worry. Viewers who elect not to pay to fund the bbc are legally prevented from viewing any and all television channels. As such, the TV Licence operates as a TAX. The BBC have made the licence fee rules deliberately unclear, in order to keep people coughing up. by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament.

Together, we must demand the Government takes back responsibility for funding free TV licences.”. Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said it had been “inundated” with phone calls and emails in support of the petition. Find out more about cookies.

The only name The BBC is primarily funded by the licence fee, supplemented by income from our commercial subsidiaries.

It's time to end the licence fee  completely and the BBC move out the dark ages and start self funding as all other channels do. A petition opposing the BBC’s decision to axe free TV licences for the over-75s has reached half a million signatures. The BBC have made the licence fee rules deliberately unclear, in order to keep people coughing up. The petition on the Age UK website, entitled Switched Off: Save free TV for older people, reached the 500,000 mark on Saturday afternoon.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards. The law on televisual transmission should be changed to allow non-bbc transmissions to be viewed free of any licence fee. Age UK amassed the signatures amid fury over the BBC…

The corporation has said free licences will be means-tested under a new scheme that intends to protect programming while dealing with the extra funding burden. “Nor would it be the place that all could turn to celebrate live important moments we enjoy as a nation: Royal weddings or jubilees, or Olympic successes.”. The petition on the Age … The B.B.C is a bias organization that has been allowed to go its own way for far too long. Yet again, we will play no part, but will inevitably have to pick up the tab. However, senior members of the ruling Conservative party have now come out to speak against these suggestions.

10 briefings. Enough is enough, and if politicians are unable, unwilling (or even scared) to act, then licence-fee payers must act on their own behalf. We will develop and distribute guidance material to raise awareness and deliver clarity on the legal implications of cancelling your TV licence now, so that you can do so without worry. This data is available for all petitions on the site.

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In December 2019, it emerged that the U.K. government was considering decriminalizing non-payment of the license fee. Despite this, those same licence-fee payers have absolutely no control over the BBC – so can only speculate about the huge sums spent by the BBC on waging the ratings war (regardless of cost), unenviable salaries and “award-winning” pensions paid to massive egos, and the interminable overseas “jollies” enjoyed by most of them at every opportunity.

‘Vote Tory and close Radio 2.’ Really?”.

The Sunday Times reported over the weekend that Downing Street, the seat of the U.K. government, was planning to replace the annual BBC license fee with a subscription service; sell most of the corporation’s 61 radio channels with the exception of Radio 3 and Radio 4; reduce the number of television channels from the existing 10; and scale back the BBC website. The law on televisual transmission should be changed to allow non-bbc transmissions to be viewed free of any licence fee. But Who’s Buying?

In December 2019, it emerged that the U.K. government was considering decriminalizing non-payment of the license fee. The cost of the annual television licence fee will increase by £3, from £154.50 to £157.50, from 1 April 2020.

There can be no doubt that, left uncontrolled, they will annihilate all opposition and achieve their ambition of becoming the “one-stop-shop for everything”. Had the BBC been a banking organisation, it would have been subjected to crippling penalties by now, but – alas – it is the “untouchable” BBC. The BBC Is Too Big, Unwieldy And Unmanageable Many have criticised the move, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who said that providing over-75s with free TV licences “is not too much to ask”, and senior Conservative Andrea Leadsom, who called for the new ruling to be scrapped. Read Next: Snap Stock Soars Over 30% After Huge Q3 Revenue Beat, Snapchat Gain of 11 Million Daily Users, BritBox Promotes Emily Powers to North America Head, Michael Sheen, David Tennant’s ‘Staged’ Renewed at BBC – Global Bulletin, Richard Sharp, Former Boss of U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Emerges as BBC Chair Candidate, Matthew McConaughey Reveals He Was Sexually Abused as a Teen in New Memoir, Rudy Giuliani’s Compromising Appearance in New ‘Borat’ Film Raises Questions Ahead of Election, How ‘Scream 5’ Directors Convinced Neve Campbell to Return to the Franchise Without Wes Craven, Ariana Grande’s New Album: Everything We Know So Far, HBO Max Hits 28.7 Million Subscribers in Q3, Warner Bros. Revenue Down 28%, ’60 Minutes’ Will Run Trump Interview Sunday, Despite President’s Release of Footage, 'Never Have I Ever' Season 2 to Start Production in November (EXCLUSIVE), Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom Buy $14.2 Million Montecito Compound, Twitter Disputes Claim That Donald Trump’s Account Hacked by Researcher Who Guessed His ‘maga2020!’ Password, Stephen Colbert Mocks Rudy Giuliani for Controversial ‘Borat 2’ Scene, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie Lands Simon Kinberg as Writer, Producer, ‘Addams Family’ TV Reboot in the Works From Tim Burton, Horror Icons Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell Compare Notes on Their Reigns as Scream Queens, Tyler Perry on Producing During the Pandemic and Why He’s Weighing in on Politics, Netflix to Campaign Chadwick Boseman as Lead Actor for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, Bridget Fonda, Danny Elfman List Back-to-Back Historic Mansions, Trump Continuously Bitches About Tough Questions During Full Video He Released of 60 Minutes Interview. The BBC Charter Review consultation in 2015-16 received over 192,000 responses and found the majority of the public do not want to see a change in the way that the BBC is funded: 60% thought the current licence fee model did not need to … Funding through the TV licence. NHL Postpones Winter Classic, All-Star Weekend Until 2022, The Best Flat-Screen TVs That Don’t Cost a Small Fortune. The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition