Employees of the Group also participate in defined benefit schemes operated by the Group's ultimate parent, the British Broadcasting Corporation. The defined benefit schemes provide benefits based on pensionable pay. The assets of the BBC's main pension scheme, the BBC Pension Scheme, to which ...
The BBC's main responsibility under its charter is to provide "public service broadcasting" within the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Outside the United Kingdom the BBC broadcasts commercially funded channels such as BBC America, BBC Canada, and BBC World News. It also has...
Like the UK Civil Service, the BBC has in recent decades moved towards a more managerial model. This has changed the nature of its leadership strata: more managers, not first and foremost producers in the traditional creative sense. If this is developed further, it would have two consequences....
I'm also afraid that people use the language of anger as ... a thinly-veiled threat of violence When you hear a politician saying that if a decision doesn't go their way then they fear there could be civil unrest and public anger. I take it that what they're really saying is if ...
Better-off households should pay more for the BBC, a former chairman has suggested, as he branded the current licence fee "regressive". Under the existing system,Richard Sharpsaid he was concerned those on lower incomes paid the same as richer people for the public service ...
In a democracy, the mediaeducates, informs and entertains– including through news, opinion, analysis, satire and drama. It is a key route through which the public hears about politics, and it plays an important role in shaping the public agenda and forming public opinion. ...
Officer Haidar:Of course. I see it all the time. They’re just catching up to the Joneses, but the problem is, they don’t know that the Joneses are also having a problem. It’s very sad story. They want to pay that million regardless of what expense. ...
BBC Licence Fee (Civil Penalty) Bill Public Service Broadcasters (Privatisation) Bill British Broadcasting Corporation (Oversight) Bill These are, at the moment, Private Members Bills – from Peter Bone and Christopher Chope – so not likely to become law unless the government takes them u...
Decriminalising non-payment of the BBC licence fee should become a non-issue by the scrapping of the licence. Why should someone who doesn’t use a service be forced to pay for it? The current system is akin to being forced to take out a subscription to The Guardian because you want to...
The Corporation did not pay excessive salaries. Reith expected staff to be motivated by public service, not high pay. In comparison with barristers, doctors, dentists and civil servants, most senior BBC male employees earned modestly. 22.