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[The average age of a BBC One viewer is
now in their 60s – meaning a large proportion
of people who consume many of the
corporation’s flagship services are not paying for it.]


This about
BBC says channels may close without over-75s licence fee

[The BBC has said it will have to close channels
and make enormous cuts to
its services unless over-75s are
made to pay for the licence fee,
as it prepares to cover the loss
of government funding that
currently allows older people to
consume its content for free.]



[Free TV licences for over-75s were
introduced by the then chancellor,
Gordon Brown, in his 1999
budget to try to reduce pension poverty.
He agreed that the cost of providing
the universal benefit should be
paid by the Department of
Work and Pensions to the BBC
to ensure the broadcaster’s budget was not hit.]



https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...5s-licence-fee

The BBC are in a mess over this.