Media & ArtsStonewall's influence on BBC and Ofcom revealed

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[–]Movellon[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For our non-UK members.

The BBC is funded by a licence fee levied on every household that owns a TV (£159) a year, the BBC is set up to be independent of Government and has a Royal Charter that is supposed to guarantee its editorial independence and impartiality.

OFCOM is the UK independent regulator of TV services, telecommunications and radio and among other things is supposed to make sure that public service broadcasters like the BBC maintain impartiality and that the BBC specifically adheres to the requirements of its Royal Charter - it answers to Parliament.

Stonewall successfully infiltrated the BBC, its regulator OFCOM, Parliament who is the regulator of OFCOM, the political parties who are elected to parliament and the UK Civil Service who are the body that carries out the policy implementations under the direction of HM Government.

[–]turtleduck23 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

im not in the UK and i don't mean to sound stupid, but do you have to pay the fee if you don't watch the bbc? like, in the usa, bbc is just a channel we get depending on our provider, does the bbc represent the entire tv broadcasting (for instance, we can choose from comcast or direct tv ect...) or is it just a channel that's apart of a bigger package?

[–]Movellon[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone with a TV who watched broadcast TV has to have a TV licence. The flip side is the BBC doesn’t have adverts and can produce shows that commercial broadcasters wouldn’t.