The BBC is Britain’s largest public Service broadcaster; they are funded by the TV Licence as they can’t advertise. The TV licence is basically a yearly fee for the privilege of owning a TV. As of April 1st 2011 the licence Fee costs £145.50 (or £45 for black and white TV’S) which is the equivalent of about 40p per day. The BBC operate 10 Channels; BBC 1,2,3,4, CBBC, Cbeebies, BBC news, BBC Parliament, BBC HD and BBC red button. The Government Decide The cost of the licence fee and It has risen £10.50 since 2007. The licence Fee is divided up and spent individually on all BBC Services, some for TV, some for radio, and a little bit for online. £7.96 per month per household goes to Television, £2.11 per month per household goes to radio and £0.66p per month per household goes towards maintaining online services and £1.40 per month per household goes towards stuff such as running costs and investments in new technology. They are owned by the Government and Run by a board of Directors and Chief executive officer. It was founded in 1927 by Jon Reith and George Villiers. Each channel BBC1 etc are all aimed at a specific audience so that they’re not biased to one group of people to another, if you’re going to pay for a TV License there should be something for you to watch that appeals to you otherwise what would be the point in paying?
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