BBC boss back license fee to secure funding for ‘improvement’ broadcaster

BBC Director General Tim Davi has voiced its support to improve the funding model of the corporation as the government has prepared Review the BBC charter.

Speaking beyond the conference in media and telecom 2025 and London, BBC Boss Highlight the need to ensure the financial stability of the broadcaster.

He said: “I want to justify the value we have. I want it to be protected”, advocates the revaluation of the license fee structure, including its progressiveness and enforcement.

Review follows a government commitment Increase license fee According to inflation by 2027. In April, the domestic duty increased from £ 169.50 to £ 174.50.

Mr. Davi expressed his desire for a separate funding system in the future, emphasizing the importance of universal funding.

He said: “I want universal funding, and I want a proper investigation to grind what we have done in the last 10 years, which has not been helped yet.”

BBC Director General Tim Davi (Andrew Miligan/PA) ,Packet,

Mr. Davi also told Sarcroft, who called the incident in the field of St. Paul, that he is concerned about those who “do not care” about the BBC and “disintegrated” instead of people criticizing the corporation.

He said that he “wants to celebrate the fact that people take care of”, because the BBC is heavy on the “front page” in the UK.

Mr. Davi also indicated that he was positive about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), before the BBC is “very large ambition around the media supply chain”, including “the need for muscle partnership with Big American technology companies”.

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Later, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandi reported that he is “firm to find a way that works for creative industry and creators” and after technology companies, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney criticized the government’s AI schemes.

He said “there are no easy solutions, but this government is firm to find a solution with transparency and confidence”.

For Vigan, the MP said, “We are a labor government, and the principle that people should be paid for their work.”

“And you have our word that if it does not work for creative industries, it will not work for us. People are at the center of this industry.”

He also promised that the BBC Charter Review would “be launched to support a BBC later this year, which is strong to continue to provide an important public service funded in a permanent way”.

Freeze at BBC license fee is going to end in April (Lucy North/PA)

Freeze at BBC license fee is going to end in April (Lucy North/PA) ,Packet,

Ms. Nandi said: “Later this month, we will publish a Creative Industries Sector Plan to target the development of creative industries in the UK, which to support film and TV groups from Birmingham to Belfast, to tap in the huge potential of development present in our country.”

In another session at the same conference, Kevin Liago, managing director of ITV Media and Entertainment Division, spoke about the need for “prominence” for the UK national broadcasters amid his increased competition with streaming companies.

He said: “I think you have to go back to the principles first, because all this discussion is based on this program that it is worth watching. So I think it is important for major broadchers that it is important that they have never lost vision to make them.”

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Mr. Ligo also confirmed that the hit ITV drama Mr. Bates vs. Post Office, which was brightening a more spotlight on the horizon, which had begun to become a commercial success after several actors, including Toby Jones, he said that he cut a salary in the show.

Mr. Ligo said that it is “hard and difficult to find the budget”, and admitted that first, foreign buyers were difficult to “explain a series” about a computer bottleneck at the British Post Office “.

“The UK is in this amazing situation when a show actually works in the UK, everyone worldwide knows about it and wants a piece of it,” he said.

“So, yes, I am sure, I do not know exactly (benefits) by the production company, but I am sure they have got their investment back.”

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