Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen the new coalition government gearing up for an attack on the BBC. First we had the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt calling for a cut in the licence fee. Currently the full cost of the BBC licence fee stands at £145.50. This works out at just under 40p per day.
So for the same price as a tabloid newspaper containing a substantial amount of advertising, celebrity gossip and a small amount of actual news (biased of course) you can get access to the wealth of content provided by the BBC. Read more…