EU Referendum Results

Re:EU Referendum Results by xufi on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:37PM (#11965110)

Agreed and based on what I've read the funding package that the UK government gives them plus the TV tax (that each UK citizen has to pay with the purchase of a TV) sure helps them stay afloat

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Re:EU Referendum Results by jdietrich on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:39PM (#11965117)

We pay a TV license annually, not a one-off tax. The BBC receives no government funding, which helps ensure its impartiality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...

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Re:EU Referendum Results by areyousure on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:17AM (#11970397)

I don't understand your second sentence.

The Wikipedia article you link to states "The money received is first paid into the Government's Consolidated Fund. It is subsequently included in the 'vote' for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in that year's Appropriation Act, and passed back to the BBC for the running of the BBC's own services (free from commercial advertisements)."

How do you see this as "no government funding"?

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Re:EU Referendum Results by capote on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:47PM (#11965158)

I think many other countries have a TV 'tax' as well. I had to pay one living in Germany just for owning a computer.

Makes for great public media in many cases.

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Re:EU Referendum Results by xufi on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:21PM (#11965314)

Do you think taxes like this will go away at some point? or will it always be there in some form?

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Re:EU Referendum Results by d_j_b on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:34PM (#11965380)

Some right-wingers in the UK (e.g. the ones advocating withdrawing from the EU) would like to see it abolished (and the BBC diminished)

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Re:EU Referendum Results by matthewmacleod on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:42PM (#11965413)

The BBC is consistently attacked by both right- and left-wing activists in the UK, which gives me at least a little confidence that they are trying to be balanced :)

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Re:EU Referendum Results by capote on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:36PM (#11965385)

What a bummer considering the BBC is one of the greatest.

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Re:EU Referendum Results by xufi on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:37PM (#11965390)

Yep, their world news coverage is pretty good but I especialy love their documentaries. They just blow me away

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Re:EU Referendum Results by eru on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:03AM (#11966251)

Yeah, but they are spending a lot on soap operas as well...

Those could very well be provided by the private market.

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Re:EU Referendum Results by xufi on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:21PM (#11965310)

Oh I see, perhaps I was wrong on that. A freind of mine in the UK said this. Must've got that wrong.

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Re:EU Referendum Results by DanBC on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:45PM (#11965150)

> the funding package that the UK government

What funding package is that? Did you mean EU grants?

> that each UK citizen has to pay with the purchase of a TV)

The licence fee is payable if you are in the UK and watch live TV as it's broadcast. "live", "TV", and "broadcast" are defined in statute and statutory instruments.

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