BBC WIll Have To Share Licence Fee With Rival Broadcaster

Bringing the BBC's 87-year old monopoly over the licence fee to an end, the UK government in its much-hyped Digital Britain report spelled out that it will take portion of the licence fee to help fund local and regional news on ITV. The culture secretary Ben Bradshaw told MPs that the government intends to take some amount of money left over from a fund established to propel the introduction digital TV services, and use it to back commercial rivals to the corporation's...