TY - JOUR
T1 - The end of the television licence fee? Applying the German household levy model to the United Kingdom
AU - Ramsey, Phil
AU - Herzog , Christian
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - While the United Kingdom (UK) government has renewed the BBC Royal Charter until 2027 and confirmed that the television licence fee will last for this period, a medium-term shift from the television licence fee to a household levy is still a policy option. Drawing on the German experience, we discuss the probable difficulties, possible benefits and the overall implications of such a shift in the UK. The article employs a comparative media policy analysis. After a brief history of public service broadcasting funding in the UK, we provide an outline of the recent German public service media funding reform. We point out the difficulties from the German model to predict the future total revenues and elaborate on the suitability of it in the UK context, contrasting the possibilities of policy transfer and policy failure.
AB - While the United Kingdom (UK) government has renewed the BBC Royal Charter until 2027 and confirmed that the television licence fee will last for this period, a medium-term shift from the television licence fee to a household levy is still a policy option. Drawing on the German experience, we discuss the probable difficulties, possible benefits and the overall implications of such a shift in the UK. The article employs a comparative media policy analysis. After a brief history of public service broadcasting funding in the UK, we provide an outline of the recent German public service media funding reform. We point out the difficulties from the German model to predict the future total revenues and elaborate on the suitability of it in the UK context, contrasting the possibilities of policy transfer and policy failure.
KW - BBC
KW - Licence Fee
KW - Policy transfer
KW - Public Service Broadcasting
KW - Public service media funding
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/the-end-of-the-television-licence-fee-applying-the-german-househo
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0267323118775300
U2 - 10.1177/0267323118775300
DO - 10.1177/0267323118775300
M3 - Article
VL - 33
SP - 430
EP - 444
JO - European Journal of Communication
JF - European Journal of Communication
SN - 0267-3231
IS - 4
ER -