Jeremy Vine caller brands TV licence fee 'outdated'

A major change to the way people access the BBC is being proposed. And thousands of TV viewers are demanding that the existing BBC TV licence fee system is brought to an end.

More than 5,500 people have backed an online petition calling on the UK Government to scrap the BBC TV licence fee in favour of advertising or a paywall system before the annual price hike in April.

The current fee stands at £174.50 and must be paid by households watching or recording live television, with non-compliance risking potential fines.

This charge typically increases alongside September's Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate, which reached 3.8 per cent. Such an adjustment would push the licence fee up by £6.65 to £181.15 for the 2026/27 finan

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