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Originally Posted by Maru

Why is there a license fee for OTA?

The BBC channels are funded by a fee and don't have commercials or (supposedly) product placement.

Tbqfh that maybe justified it back when we only had 4 or 5 over the air channels so the BBC was half of our TV. These days there are dozens of free to air channels and the BBC makes up like 4 of them, so it's a ridiculous price to ask.