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Remove TV Licence, BBC is now a Commercial Broadcaster

Submitted on Friday 15th December 2023

Rejected on Friday 19th January 2024

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Remove TV Licence, BBC is now a Commercial Broadcaster

Petition Details

The BBC has a commercial streaming service (BritBox) a collaboration with another Commercial Broadcaster (ITV).

Furthermore BBC has moved a huge amount of their back catalogue to this new streaming service, so programmes that were made with public funds, I now have to pay to watch

Additional Information

The TV Licence was introduced by Government and was to fund a Public Broadcasting Service, which is now a commercial organisation and should be treated as such.

Which other Broadcaster is not only receiving public funds, but is also allowed to set the pricing level, for these funds. This is unacceptable and should be removed, by Parliament immediately, all other commercial broadcasters are a at a commercial disadvantage and it is time to correct this disgrace!


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

Abolish the TV licence and make the BBC a subscription channel: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/649092

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