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Arjan Bains

08/03/17

Why does the BBC traditionally defend its license fee from an
information gap/merit good perspective?
The BBC hosts many of the UK’s most popular documentaries and programmes alongside their
news coverage
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This includes TV on computers, mobile phones, DVD/video recorders
and other devices, which allow access to media on demand via BBC iPlayer
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The BBC being the first TV channel ever broadcasted on TV there were no
advertisements at the time, as a result their air time needed to be funded somehow
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The TV license allows users to access BBC content on multiple platforms without the
nuisance of advertisements from third parties
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On the other hand other channels such as
ITV adopt a different approach whereby they have advertisements from other organisations air
between their shows, which generates enough money to pay for their programme costs and also
for their media access on different platforms for example ITV player
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As there are no other third parties involved in advertising the BBC
represent an unbiased view to the public which the government believe is a necessity for all
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All in all this
leaves the BBC and the government to defend the license fee due to the unbiased coverage they
claim to put out to their viewers
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The government being a legal figure applying the license fee
also means if the viewers were to not pay the fee they would be guilty of tax evasion
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