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There is talk of a plan to freeze the BBC license fee for public broadcasting in the UK for two years and then abolish it in 2028.
British Culture Minister Nadine Doris shared on Twitter on the 16th (local time) that she had decided to freeze the BBC license fee at £159 until April 2024.
Doris also said he wanted the license fee to be abolished by 2028, British media reported.
“This is the last announcement regarding license fees,” Doris tweeted.
He said, “It’s the end of the old men being threatened with imprisonment because they can’t pay the license fee.”
The BBC license fee system will remain as it is until the end of 2027 according to the Royal Charter, which is the basis for its legal existence.
The British government has agreed to raise the license fee in line with the inflation rate for five years from 2017, and has been negotiating with the BBC on the license fee policy since last year.
A BBC spokesperson said, “Following unconfirmed media reports about the two-year freeze, Secretary Doris’s (Twitter) remarks came out.”
The BBC’s current license fee revenue is £3.2 billion a year.
A freeze is a real budget cut amid the recent surge in UK prices. The BBC is already under cost pressure and is voluntary voluntary retirement, according to The Guardian and others.
The Daily Mail reported that Doris’s source highly praised the success of Netflix and YouTube, saying, “The BBC as they know it is over. The era of state TV is over.”
The Conservative government has recently been dissatisfied with the direction of the BBC’s reporting, the Daily Mail reported. In particular, high-ranking government officials were outraged by reports of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s apology related to a drinking party during the lockdown.
The Times said that loyalist Secretary Doris should throw ‘meat’ to appease councilors angry over a party incident during lockdown, and the repeal after the BBC’s license fee freeze was ‘meat’.
Following the BBC license fee policy, the British government is expected to take measures such as a ban on drinking in the Prime Minister’s office, resolving the waiting for patients in hospitals, solving the refugee problem in the English-French Strait, lifting the Corona 19 quarantine restrictions, and publishing a balanced development white paper to change the public mind, The Times reported.
“There are many reasons to invest in the BBC for the British public and the creative industry,” the BBC said.
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