Funding public service broadcasting

Business Daily

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The British Government says the BBC license fee, paid by millions of households, to finance its global broadcasting service, will be frozen for two years and wants a debate about future funding. So what are the options for the Corporation? Rob Young explores the way public service broadcasters are funded around the world and talks to Ismo Silvo, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Finnish public broadcaster YLE and Chris Turpin, NPR's Chief of Staff. We get some analysis of the advantages and limitations of each model and discuss the impact on other broadcasters with Steve Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster and Gill Hind from Enders Analysis. (Image: BBC Studio, Credit: BBC)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Rob Young. The funding model that pays for the radio station you're listening to is under threat.
0:11.5	It's time to begin asking those really serious questions about the long-term funding model of the BBC and whether a mandatory licence fee with criminal penalties for individual households is still
0:27.1	appropriate.
0:28.6	In today's programme, we'll be looking at the options that could replace the licence fee
0:33.1	levied on all television set owners in the UK, and we'll find out what the impact might be on other
0:39.3	broadcasters and for the types of programmes being made.
0:42.7	It is fair to say that Wiley is now more able to concentrate on products that the commercial
0:50.7	companies do not do any more. That means more news and current affairs
0:55.5	and also more factual programming. That's all in Business Daily from the BBC.
1:06.3	Hello, Marconi House, Zundonan, Two-Alo, Marconi House, London, Corley.
1:12.6	It's a century since the BBC's first radio programme was broadcast.
1:17.7	The vision and sound are on.
1:20.4	The station goes on the air.
1:22.5	The organisation now has a portfolio of TV channels in the UK and globally,
1:27.7	10 national radio stations in the UK, as well as a portfolio of TV channels in the UK and globally, 10 national radio stations in the UK,
1:30.5	as well as a network of local ones, a website,
1:33.4	and of course the station you're listening to.
1:40.9	The BBC is mainly funded by a charge on British households that consume television services.
1:47.6	The broadcaster receives about $5 billion a year from the TV licence fee.
1:53.1	The UK government has said it will freeze the level of the licence fee for the next two years.
1:58.4	To it says, help households hit by the rising cost of living.
2:02.5	As a result, the BBC will have to cut costs, perhaps including programmes.
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