The price of the BBC TV licence is to rise from 1st April 2021.
An annual colour TV licence will rise from £157.50 to 159.00.
An annual black & white (monochrome) TV licence will rise from £53.00 to £53.50.
The increase to the colour TV licence fee is broadly in line with inflation, running at around 3%.
A BBC press release, designed to sugar the pill, said the following: "The increase is equivalent to less than 3p a week with the overall cost of a licence equating to just 43p a day. For this, the BBC provides BBC iPlayer; the audio app BBC Sounds; one of the UK’s most popular websites; nine national TV channels plus regional programming; 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations as well as dedicated Nations radio services.
"Our programmes and services have been at heart of UK life for almost a century and never more so than in such an unprecedented year. Each week 91% of UK adults come to the BBC, with an average of 5 million people using our services every single minute of the day and night, across TV, radio, and online."
In proclaiming its exceptional value, the BBC omitted to mention anything about the tens of millions of TV licence payers' cash it has wasted on legal fees, redundancy payments, free tea and coffee for staff, abandoned initiatives and creative diversity. Funny that.
Giving his opinion on the latest price hike, John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Another hike in the hated TV tax is the last thing struggling households need.
"Brits are fed up with seeing the Beeb splash their cash on loaded luvvies, politicised programming and generous expenses for BBC bosses.
"It's time to scrap the licence fee and let the public decide what's worth paying for."
Anyone buying or renewing their TV licence prior to 1st April will pay the existing rate. Those paying by Direct Debit will continue to pay the current rate until their licence comes up for renewal, at which point payments will be adjusted to take into account the increased fee.
As we said on Twitter earlier, the cost of a TV licence will rise to the equivalent of £13 a month. With the standard cost of Netflix (try free for 30 days) and Amazon Prime Video (try free for 30 days) - both of which offer far superior value and quality to the BBC - standing at less than £10 a month, you really would be a fool not to ditch the overpriced TV licence.
You can read more about the correct way of cancelling your TV licence in our earlier article on the subject.
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