Brilliant news yesterday, with the BBC's latest Annual Report confirming that half a million households abandoned the TV licence fee last year.
Under current legislation a TV licence is needed for those properties where equipment is installed or used to receive TV programmes, at their time of broadcast, on any TV channel. A licence is also needed to watch or download BBC on-demand programmes via the iPlayer.
TV licence revenue is used almost exclusively to fund the BBC. In a glaring conflict of interests, the BBC is also responsible for administering and enforcing the fee that its very existence depends on. It does this under the guise of TV Licensing..
According to the report the BBC raked in around £3.66 billion in TV licence revenue in the financial year 2023/24, with around half a million fewer households stumping up the £169.50 annual fee.
The BBC also published the salaries of its highest paid "talent":
- Gary Lineker, £1.35m
- Zoe Ball, £950k
- Hugh Edwards, £475k
- Greg James, £415k
- Stephen Nolan, £405k
- Fiona Bruce, £405k
- Lauren Laverne, £395k
- Alan Shearer, £380k
- Nick Robinson, £345k
- Naga Munchetty, £345k
- Mishal Husain, £340k
- Laura Kuenssberg, £325k
- Sophie Raworth, £325k
- Vernon Kay, £320k
- Justin Webb, £320k
- Scott Mills, £315k
- Sara Cox, £315k
- Clive Myrie, £310k
- Amol Rajan, £310k
These figures represent payments made directly by the BBC. They do not include any payments made via a third party like BBC Studios, which encompasses "talent" like Claudia Winkleman, Bradley Walsh, Michael McIntyre, Paddy McGuinness and Alexander Armstrong.
Hugh Edwards seems to have done particularly well, given that he disappeared from the airwaves in July 2023 after news emerged that he'd paid a vulnerable young man for intimate photographs of himself. It is, however, likely that the BBC had to honour contractual arrangements with Edwards, despite his seedy behaviour.
The newly installed Labour Government has already taken the knee for the BBC, by signalling its continued support for the TV licence fee.
We remind readers of the many legal alternatives to paying the £169.50 fee.
We would urge everyone to ditch the TV licence and starve a BBC deviant.
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Further anti-BBC reading:
- Is The True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?, by David Sedgwick (aff. link)
- The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills (aff. link)
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