About the BBC and TV Licences

1. By Eloise Barrett

2. People registered as blind
get a 50% reduction off their
TV licence .
People over the age of
75 are entitled to a
free TV licence
To watch or record live TV
programmes on any
channel, download or
watch any BBC
programmes on
iPlayer(live, catch up or on
demand), you need to be
covered by a TV licence to
do so.
Monthly spend in 2015/16-£12.13 per
household Television:£7.02
BBC World Service:£0.83
Online:£0.76
Radio:£2.06
Other services and
production costs:£0.79
Licence fee collection and
other costs:£0.67

3. British Broadcasting Corporation is a public service broadcaster and was
founded on 18th October 1922. It provides nine national TV channels,
regional TV programmes, an internet TV service - BBC Three - 10 national
radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website.
People want to get rid of the BBC because they say it’s right wing and
others say it is left wing. Left wing is people who want to change things,
often extremists and right wing is people who want to keep things the way
they are.
The BBC has five public purposes. These are reviewed every 10 years and
renewed in an agreement between the BBC and the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport
.

4. The licence fee is currently £150.00
You need to be covered by a TV licence to:
• Watch or record live TV programmes on any channel
• Download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer-live, catch up or on demand
What does your licence fee pay for?
The fee provides a wide range of TV, radio and online content, as well as developing
new ways to deliver it to you. In addition to funding BBC programmes and services, a
proportion of the licence fee contributes to the costs of rolling out broadband to the
UK population and funding Welsh Language TV channel S4C and local TV channels.

5. The bulk of the BBC’s £5bn funding comes from the licence fee. It also raises
around £1.3bn from selling its programmes for broadcast overseas.