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This Is Why

Funding the BBC – if not the licence fee then what?

This Is Why

Sky News

News Commentary, Daily News, News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The government has announced that in 2024 the BBC licence fee will rise by £10.50. The fee, which had been frozen at £159 two years ago, was expected to rise in line with inflation but Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has said the predicted increase of £15 would "absolutely" be too much. The government is also launching a review of the BBC's funding model.

The governing body of the BBC has said the below-inflation rise will “have a significant impact on the wider creative sector across the UK”.

So what would a new funding model look like, and what does this mean for the future of the BBC?

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to Roger Mosey, former head of BBC Television News, and Alice Enders, director of research at Enders Analysis about what could come next.

Producer: Alex Edden
Interviews Producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:09.0

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0:15.0

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0:18.0

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0:24.5

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0:29.7

Sorry to interrupt your day, but I've just been diagnosed with dementia, and I'm going to need your help.

0:37.2

I'll need help when I can no longer button a shirt or recognise my own family.

0:42.7

My daughter will need help too.

0:45.0

I worry this could ruin her life.

0:47.8

And we will all need help to find a cure to end the devastation of dementia.

0:53.1

I can't do this alone. It will take a society to beat

0:57.6

dementia, Alzheimer's Society. Who'd be a broadcaster these days? Competition from streaming services

1:04.8

means traditional, linear. Let's all gather around the telly together moments are increasingly rare.

1:12.5

And of course, audiences are on the wane. Yet on the rise is the BBC licence fee. Frozen at 159 pounds two years ago,

1:19.5

the government have now announced that in 2014 the fee will rise by £10.50, the £15 rise originally

1:26.8

proposed, just a little rich for the

1:29.3

Culture Secretary's liking. In fact, Lucy Fraser took the opportunity to announce a review of

1:34.8

the BBC's funding model, which means a review of the licence fee itself. I'm Neil Patterson,

1:40.0

and on this edition of the Sky News Daily, we'll be asking where the BBC goes next.

1:46.3

I'm joined by Alice Enders, Director of Research at Enders Analysis,

1:51.0

and Roger Mosey, formerly head of BBC Television News, now master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

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