BBC viewers have urged for the broadcaster to be ‘protected’ after praising coverage of the Queen’s funeral today.
Earlier this year, then-Culture Secretaryfor an overhaul after stating the next announcement about the fee would ‘be the last’.
The BBC licence fee is an annual payment which is currently set at £159. It normally changes on April 1 each year but it is expected to freeze for two years until April 2024, at which point it’s speculated the fee will be axed.supports HTML5 video Several celebrities have slammed the licence fee freeze, with Channel 5 presenter Dan Walker sharing an image on Twitter of the different TV and radio channels aired on the channel, alongside the caption: ‘43p per day.’
In a later tweet, Walker, 44 clarified: ‘I am well aware that the BBC makes mistakes and needs to change, but the media landscape would be much poorer without it.Former BBC star Dan Walker has defended the licence fee Former England football star Gary Lineker, who also presents the Beeb’s Match of the Day, retweeted an image from the BBC press office that shows the content viewers get when they pay the licence fee.
The 61-year-old later wrote sarcastically: ‘Yes the BBC brings you the best in news, in sport, in drama, in music, in children’s, in science, in history, in entertainment, in current affairs and Sir David bloody Attenborough….but apart from that what has the BBC ever done for us?’
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