{"id":115539,"date":"2025-11-03T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:58:11","slug":"blow-for-millions-of-families-as-bbc-licence-fee-is-set-to-be-hiked-to-more-than-180-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115539\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for millions of families as BBC licence fee is set to be hiked to more than \u00a3180 a YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER <\/p>\n

Published: 19:15 EDT, 2 November 2025 | Updated: 04:46 EDT, 3 November 2025 <\/p>\n

The\u00a0BBC<\/a> licence fee is to be hiked above \u00a3180 next year in a further blow for millions of households struggling with rising costs.<\/p>\n

TV viewers already pay an annual rate of \u00a3174.50, which is on course to increase by almost \u00a37 in the spring.<\/p>\n

Next year’s licence fee is due to be based on the annual inflation<\/a> reading for this September, which stood at 3.8 per cent. As a result, the current fee will increase to more than \u00a3181.<\/p>\n

The hike, which is likely to be confirmed later this month, will see the \u00a3175 mark passed two years earlier than expected.<\/p>\n

It will be linked to inflation until at least 2027 after the BBC and the Tories<\/a> struck a deal in 2022.<\/p>\n

When the agreement was reached, the licence fee cost \u00a3159 and was projected to cost less than \u00a3175 by its final year.<\/p>\n

However, high inflation has driven up the amount TV viewers are charged. In November last year, the Government announced it would rise from \u00a3169.50 to \u00a3174.50 from April.<\/p>\n

The corporation raked in almost \u00a34billion from the levy last year. But the future of the licence fee has come under scrutiny amid a sharp decline in the number of people watching traditional TV channels as viewers continue to turn to streaming services such as Netflix and Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The BBC licence fee is to be hiked above \u00a3180 next year in a further blow for millions of households struggling with rising costs (stock)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The number of licences bought decreased from 24.1 million to 23.8 million last year, with the drop hitting the BBC’s income in real terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted she will uphold the current agreement but wants to change how the BBC is funded in the future. She called for a ‘mixed-funding model’ which would combine the licence fee with other streams of revenue.<\/p>\n

It comes as the broadcaster has faced criticism for splurging more than \u00a3200,000 of taxpayers’ money on transportation, hotels bookings that were never used and also for private healthcare.<\/p>\n

A BBC spokesman said: ‘As a 24 hour global media organisation, a significant amount of travel is inevitable and the nature of our work means plans can often change at short notice.<\/p>\n

‘We are always mindful of costs, we have strict policies in place to help keep expenses to a minimum, and wherever possible, we will recover the costs.’<\/p>\n

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