{"id":680436,"date":"2026-07-08T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680436\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:31:09","slug":"bbc-held-back-by-licence-fee-says-director-general-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680436\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC \u2018held back\u2019 by licence fee, says director-general &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiowFBVV95cUxPQWI1ajRjT3RtNGNwcThoTnZmTXBIalBVZUc5MU5sYXNpalZtOER0WkFiV2lvNk91Um0tT2ZoR3FSVjFrWS1BeTVPRTZzaXE4VS1fTVNpWDQzWHpzZXFkczB0c1JER19BNnhZaU9JY3VSTjkyRTNOdFJvVERqY1ZWT193Yk5Yd0p6NVZoUlJNSGktejBSMVZjUk8xR0FreGw4TWlJ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC \u2018held back\u2019 by licence fee, says director-general<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE1NTUljNmpidmxHaDBBaWRLYldMWW9PQkRKOG9uOERiVHg1Y2txbC1zdzNzNkZDYW5QalRVdWlHeTdtTUNDeFZYLWVtVkxWRXlva3JMb2l1QXFKMXVY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Licence fee is &#8216;yesterday&#8217;s model&#8217;, says new BBC director general Matt Brittin<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxOekJJN29JZ00xM1Jab2paZ3RuVGdRci14Y3NybjY2SUN1a1ZFNHhoYzZ2ajk1ejlINTMxbE1kMVB0cXltYUVJVjlZM0dMUEFvRTRMNmw2SFdpMWRiWEZ1S1Uwb1B0V0hCNks5WEdndWNkdGYzbjFKREJPQ2pKckgtcUhvbVk5bDVxc2dB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">I worked for the BBC \u2013 here\u2019s why I sued over \u2018frightening\u2019 licence fee letters<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The i Paper<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiTkFVX3lxTE0tUk5BVElCT0VnV2EyQ2hoQnRzTjUzZzZoY0F1blpSTEpoYkpIMHI4Y3l2clprY1c4a0h3ckI0Mkc4cjRDMlBFTWJQTmVaUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bye bye, Beeb?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Critic<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxNd0E3VnNQZUpYY2d2aHVVOTZyZ2dhVkZXcE9zUGFkb2taclZhV0xZX21uUjFDdXUtTlI4dS13UnFDNmVnSHpwQUJEQTQ0QlFEZGNCT1NJTS0yWEpYNS1hRWYzLTA3NG4tNVRjTmdwREhTbmJEODUwUFpZeEhUNlB3Z1BKQm9kcUtSR0J0dU5sZUhZV1YxX0tTVGVVNE9OaGM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE: New BBC Director General Questioned by MPs on Licence Fee<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Guido Fawkes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC \u2018held back\u2019 by licence fee, says director-general&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardLicence fee is &#8216;yesterday&#8217;s model&#8217;, says new BBC director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,96,844,175194,2657,25977,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-google","tag-matt-brittin","tag-mps","tag-tim-davie","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}