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# but people don't realise that
the licence fee is also distributed to itv, c4 and five so don't care. plus they do make more on commercial revenue than BBC worldwide
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:46, archived)
# It doesn't, you know.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:48, archived)
# marginally
but apparently they get a very small cut of the money, think it's for news programmes and the like officially.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:50, archived)
# breakdown of the monthly fee: From Oct. 2007
* £7.54 goes on eight national TV channels, including BBC1, BBC2 and regional programmes.
* £1.17 goes on the 10 national radio stations, which cover music, news and sport.
* £1.01 is the cost of broadcasting all TV and radio output, and the cost of collecting the licence fee from 25 million homes.
* 75p covers the 40 local radio stations.
* 49p is spent on the 240 bbc.co.uk websites.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:19, archived)
#
they seem to have left out the wages for the people who work for tv licencing, and the court fees for taking people to court for not paying (since the £1000 fine goes into the court systems if they do prosecute)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:41, archived)
# errr, nope:
cost of collecting the licence fee from 25 million homes, which would include methods of obtaining it - wages, fees, courts etc
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:34, archived)