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BBC licence fee

November 2024

  • Archie Bland

    The era of the BBC mega-salary may end with Gary Lineker. But is that necessarily a good thing?

    Archie Bland
    This may be a rational move – but it should not be used as an argument to hack away at the corporation until it has little left to offer, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

October 2024

  • 'It's unsustainable': James Cleverly says he favours dropping BBC licence fee – video

    The shadow home secretary says the corporation should move to a subscription model

September 2024

  • Jane Martinson

    Why the BBC making one journalist redundant matters – for our media and democracy

    Jane Martinson
    Kate Lamble’s reporting on Grenfell was public service journalism at its best. But sweeping cuts will make it far harder to replicate, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

July 2024

  • BBC Broadcasting House

    Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

  • BBC HQ, logo in view, in central London

    Keir Starmer commits to keeping BBC licence fee after years of Tory hostility

June 2024

  • Dorothy Byrne

    The BBC and Channel 4 may soon be safe from Tory attacks – but they still need reform

    Dorothy Byrne
    Public service broadcasting has been threatened by a hostile government for years. A Labour win offers the chance for a reset, says Dorothy Byrne, a former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4

March 2024

  • Council tax discounts<br>File photo dated 27/03/19 of a council tax bill. People suffering with severe mental impairments face missing out on financial help with council tax because of their postcode, according to the Alzheimer's Society. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday April 10, 2019. The Welsh Government has become the first to standardise information it gives about council tax discounts and rebates for people who are Severely Mentally Impaired and to offer a single application form across Wales. See PA story MONEY Alzheimers. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

    Council tax, broadband, and dental charges: how to weather the April price rises

    There’s been some good news about inflation falling, but be warned: there are still big price hikes around the corner
  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’: BBC 5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

    On 5 Live’s 30th birthday, Heidi Dawson says more of the BBC should be based outside London to reflect the national conversation

    • BBC boss hits out at ‘shortsighted’ Tory budget cuts

    • BBC looks for commercial deals as it faces potential end of licence fee

    • BBC licence fee no longer feels justifiable

February 2024

  • ‘I didn’t understand why we couldn’t solve it’ … Josiane in Basildon.

    The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised?

    Each year, tens of thousands of UK citizens are charged with non-payment of their TV licence fee – from the man who missed payments while in hospital, to a woman with a brain injury who forgot to pay

December 2023

  • American teenage singer Brenda Lee rehearses for ITV's show Oh Boy in the streets of Islington, London, in 1959, accompanied by Benny Green on saxophone and watched by local children.

    Brief letters
    Growing up with background Brenda

  • Samir Shah, who is to replace Richard Sharp as the next chair of the BBC, in London on 13 December 2023.

    The panel
    Troublesome talent and meddling ministers. As BBC chair, Samir Shah, here’s what you’ve got to do

    Armando Iannucci, Jane Martinson, Pat Younge, Marcus Ryder, Sophie Chalk, Patrick Barwise, Peter York and Joe Lycett
  • BBC Local radio workers strike over proposed cuts in Liverpool<br>epa10524224 People walk past the BBC Radio Merseyside building in Liverpool, Britain, 15 March 2023. BBC Local workers in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have timed their strike to affect coverage of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget in a row over reductions of local radio services and plans for stations to share programming on weekdays. EPA/ADAM VAUGHAN

    The Guardian view on the BBC licence fee deal: a vendetta masquerading as sympathy

  • Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak defends Rwanda asylum policy as Tory split deepens – as it happened

  • BBC condemns low licence fee rise warning of impact on creative sector

  • BBC likely to receive below-inflation rise in licence fee

  • Rishi Sunak says BBC cuts are ‘welcome’ amid reports of licence fee curbs

November 2023

  • BBC Radio Cornwall office

    BBC faces broad backlash over cuts to local radio output

    Exclusive: Fallout includes anger from listeners, potential legal action and concerns from Ofcom
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