[CMA TV] BBC licence fee to top £130 this year

[Michelle McGuire]

BBC licence fee to top £130 this year

Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Monday January 23, 2006

The annual BBC licence fee will top £130 for the first time from  
April 1, when the final increase of the current five-year funding  
deal is introduced.

 From the beginning of April, the licence fee will go up from £126.50  
to £131.50, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%.
The government and the BBC are currently locked in negotiations over  
a new licence fee settlement, which will come into force from April 1  
next year.

In October the BBC made its pitch for the licence fee to be set at  
RPI plus 2.3% for seven years from April 2007 - a bid which is  
expected to be opposed by the Treasury. If the BBC gets this deal,  
the licence could rise to almost £180 by 2013.

Source: Media Guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1693211,00.html


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