Thread: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Old 18-09-2018, 22:55   #15
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Indeed, the BBC gets as many complaints about being biased to the left as they do to the right, which shows me that they have the right balance.

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This would mean that those who don't watch any type of TV at all would end up paying for the BBC through general taxation.

The reason why the TVL was set up in the way it is was to ensure that the BBC remained independent from the Government of the day.

Shifting the cost of paying for the free TV licences for the over 75's from the DWP to the BBC was a sly move as the BBC will get the blame for any cutbacks. It's the same principle as them cutting the Revenue Support Grants to local authorities, it's the councils who then get the blame when Council Tax Bills increase whilst services are reduced.

Having said that, I do think that the free TV licence schemes should be reformed. It's ridiculous that a millionaire pensioner doesn't pay whilst a younger person on benefits has to, or that a working family on decent wages can stick the TVL into an elderly persons name who lives with them so that they can all enjoy the benefit of a free TVL.
Not really. What I was saying was that the public service element would be funded by the Government. Other channels would also benefit from this as they do now.

We agree that reform is necessary. This should be done in a measured way, ensuring that the BBC was still able to raise the value of the licence fee by way of the basic subscription and had the flexibility to top it up as they saw fit with premium programming.
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