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The BBC may flip its again on a flat charge and means-test TV licences, with richer households paying extra.

However would you welcome a reform to the prevailing TV licence? And will these with extra disposable revenue foot a bigger invoice to buy one?

The licence charge has been frozen for 2 years at £159. And in 2023 the federal government introduced it will use a decrease price of inflation to set the annual family cost to £169.50 from April 2024.

It has left BBC director normal Tim Davie underneath strain to stability the books. Final week, Mr Davie stated he’s open to a “extra progressive” method of funding the company, as he revealed the “biggest-ever session course of” on its future.

A brand new method will contemplate “its scope, the way it may very well be extra progressive and ensuring its enforcement is honest and proportionate,” he stated in a speech.

Nevertheless, Mr Davie confirmed he believes a licence charge ought to nonetheless be in place in some capability as he feels it will be important that everybody has a “stake” in it.

He added: “That doesn’t essentially suggest means-testing, there may very well be a lot of methods you can make it progressive. I simply suppose the thought we’re simply sitting the place we’re at is the incorrect one.”

How do you suppose the BBC’s licence charge mannequin needs to be revamped? Ought to richer households pay extra? Or ought to the platform discover different avenues for income and introduce adverts, for instance?

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