Saturday, June 13, 2009

License fee may end up funding ITV regional news

There is an interesting report in this morning's Telegraph which suggests that a proportion of the license fee could be used to fund ITV's regional news.

Ahead of the Carter report it is claimed that Lord Carter will

recommend that some of the BBC's annual revenue should be used to fund regional news services on ITV and broadband for all.


The money will come from the so called digital surplus

the £800 million built into the present six-year licence fee settlement, which began in 2007, to help older and disabled people complete the switch to digital television by supplying them with set top boxes. This is scheduled to be completed by 2012.


The surplus is reckoned to be around £250m

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