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Licence fee under review
Liverpool Echo
|December 18, 2025
THE Government will look at reforming the licence fee and consider more commercial revenue options for the BBC in plans outlined in its royal charter review.
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It comes amid disruption at the BBC following resignations from top executives and a lawsuit from US president Donald Trump, who is seeking up to 10 billion US dollars (£7.5bn) in damages in response to the editing of a speech he made before the 2021 attack on the Capitol that was featured in a Panorama episode.
The charter sets out the BBC’s public purpose and is the constitutional basis for the corporation, which is predominately funded through the licence fee, paid by UK TV-watching households.
This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of Liverpool Echo.
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