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GCSE Media Studies · key term
A payment collected from television licence holders which provides public funding for the BBC.
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Paper 2
Revise: Doctor Who: industries, audiences and contextsThe BBC’s main public funding comes from the television licence fee, rather than advertising during its programmes. This helps explain why Doctor Who could be conceived as both an entertaining drama and an educational programme.
Component 1, Component 2
A public funding mechanism that provides most of the BBC’s income; it is not a subscription to an individual BBC radio programme.
Revise: Desert Island Discs: the radio industryThe BBC is funded predominantly through public funding from the licence fee. This supports its public service work, including Radio 4. The fee is not a payment to hear an individual episode of Desert Island Discs.
The payment that provides the BBC’s principal public funding, rather than commercial advertising funding for its UK public services.
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