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For any copyright, please send me a message. The BBC announced this week that the cost of the annual television licence fee will increase by £3, from £154.50 to £157.50, from April this year. The move has sparked anger among fee payers, who have already expressed anger at the broadcaster for a number of issues, including perceived bias and a plan to remove free licences for over-75s. Richard called into Mike Graham’s talkRADIO show to share his own plan for how to scrap the existing fee and implement a different system that will benefit those outside the “BBC bubble”. He told Mr Graham: “I would scrap the existing TV licence fee. “And as an interim until everything is sorted out in 2027, I would replace it with what I would call a ‘basic BBC broadcasting fee’. “This would only cover BBC One, BBC Two and all their radio channels. I would charge everyone £5 per month. “The easy way to do it, to do away with that whole infrastructure that they’ve set up to collect the existing fee, I would put it as a precept, as the police precept appears on the council tax bill and the fire and rescue appears.” Richard continued: “So they know they’re going to get that £60 per household per year. “Everything else that they do, I would say, has to go on subscription. “BBC Three is already an online-only service. “I would put BBC Four on the same, and I would put their news channel and iPlayer and all of that on the same.” The talkRADIO caller added: “They seem to be in a bubble that thinks of people like them, that only use Apple devices or whatever. “The fact is, we’re all currently having to pay this fee. “And if we don’t pay it, we can end up in prison.” Trending Mr Graham agreed with Richard, calling the current situation a “shocking state of affairs” and backing his “good idea”. Ministers have agreed the licence fee will stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends. Licence fee income was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in 2018-9. This accounts for approximately 75 percent of the broadcaster's revenues and funding TV, radio and online content. At the moment, failure to pay the BBC television licence is a criminal offence which results in a penalty of up to £1000, and can even land dodgers in jail. A BBC spokesperson said: “As we’ve said before, the licence fee ensures a universal BBC which serves everyone, is the most popular funding system among the public and is agreed as the method of funding the BBC for another 8 years.”
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