The Culture Secretary has provided an update on the funding of the BBC, setting out how the government will review alternate funding options to secure the broadcaster’s long-term sustainability, while providing it with funding certainty for the remainder of the current Charter period.
  • Ministers to review the BBC’s Charter to examine the BBC’s future funding
  • Licence fee to rise in line with annual CPI inflation in 2025 to provide the BBC with stable financial footing
  • Thousands more households to be offered support to pay TV licence fee
  • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    Do you need to pay a TV license if you get your smart fridge to run a browser, and internet access to watch YouTube via your cousin’s mobile hotspot? Or are you only required to pay if you click on someone’s live stream?

    • Zip2@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      22 days ago

      No, you only need to get one if you’ve already passed the theory and practical sections of your TV test.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukMEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        I failed my TV test last year.

        Accidentally held the channel change button for too long, ended up on babestation.

        Instant end of the test.

        • Zip2@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          22 days ago

          I didn’t even get that far. I failed to read teletext from 20 metres away.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      There are only two actions that require a TV license:

      • Using BBC iPlayer for any reason
      • Watching live broadcast TV from any source

      YouTube does not have a broadcasting licence (granted by Ofcom) so YouTube live streams do not count as broadcast TV.

      At least I’m pretty sure that’s how that works