BBC Resists a Move to Give Part of Its License Fee to Other Broadcasters (Published 2009)

BBC Resists a Move to Give Part of Its License Fee to Other Broadcasters The BBC and the Labour government in Britain are disagreeing over a government plan to share some of the broadcaster’s £3.6 billion in public financing with its commercial television rivals. The government proposed last month that 3.5 percent, or about £130 million ($212 million), be reallocated from the BBC to other broadcas