by RAY FLEMING
BBC programmes and services cost each TV set owner in the UK 33p a day. If there is better value for entertainment, information and enrichment anywhere in the world I would like to know about it. Those who criticise the BBC (I am among them) cannot point to a single country where higher quality and more responsible TV and radio are provided day-in, day-out. This fact is implicitly recognised in the UK government's Green Paper on the renewal of the BBC Charter published yesterday. Broadly speaking it proposes continued funding of the BBC by licence fee for a further ten years from the end of next year but recognises that during that period the BBC's operations and the licence fee will have to be reviewed in the light of the growth of multi-channel digital TV and the switching-off of all the current analogue services in 2010 or as soon thereafter as proves technically practicable.
STILL BEST IN THE WORLD
03/03/2005 00:00
Also in Holiday
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
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