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In September 2008, the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, launched a review of TV Licensing's methods, [71] following complaints about "heavy-handed" and "intimidating" tactics [107] and during December 2008, it was reported by the press that the chairman of the all-party Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee had accused TV Licensing of ...
The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 led to the suspension of television broadcasts in the UK. The television licence was introduced in June 1946 to coincide with the post-war resumption of the BBC service the same month. Television licences always included a licence to receive radio broadcasts.
On 1 January 2019, the television licence (Swedish: TV-avgift, literally TV fee) in Sweden was scrapped and replaced by a "general public service fee" (Swedish: allmän public service-avgift), which is a flat income-based public broadcasting tax of 1 per cent, capped at 1,300 Swedish kronor (approximately US$145 or €126) per person per year ...
The UK government announced it would stop funding free TV licences for those over 75 in 2020, with a transition period ending in 2021.. The BBC then agreed to issue free licences to those over ...
The cost of the annual TV Licence fee will increase from £157.50 to £159 from April 1 2021, it has been announced. The fee is set by the Government, which announced in 2016 that it would rise in ...
The move will mean the 7,000 people who apply for a free licence each month will be able to do so more quickly online or over the phone. The BBC last year limited the free TV licences to over-75s ...
The licence was originally issued by the General Post Office (GPO), which was then the regulator of public communications within the UK. Since it was not possible to stop people without a licence from buying and operating a TV, it was necessary to find ways of enforcing the TV licence system.
It issued licences to new satellite broadcasters and awarded the Channel 5 licence in the mid-1990s. It also regulated cable TV. It also regulated cable TV. In the early 2000s, the British government, in a white paper , declared its intention to merge the ITC with the Radio Authority , Office of Telecommunications , and Radiocommunications Agency .