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What does your licence fee pay for?

TV Licensing is committed to making it quick and easy for you to pay for your TV Licence in the way that suits you. The fee you pay provides a wide range of TV, radio and online content, as well as developing new ways to deliver it to you. Click on the devices below to find out more.

All of this content – and the television channels, radio stations and online spaces where audiences can find it – is paid for by the licence fee, allowing BBC's UK services to remain free of advertisements and independent of shareholder and political interest.

We aim to collect the fee efficiently and fairly in order to deliver value for money for licence fee payers. In 1991 collection costs came to 6.2% of the total fee collected. By 2009/10 we had reduced this to 3.5%, allowing more money to go towards new content and services.

The Government has now frozen the fee at £145.50 until the end of the current BBC Charter period in 2016.

Television

  • BBC One
  • BBC Two
  • BBC Three
  • BBC Four
  • BBC HD
  • BBC News
  • BBC Sport
  • CBBC
  • Cbeebies
  • BBC Parliament
  • BBC Alba
  • BBC World News
  • BBC iPlayer
  • BBC Red Button

Radio

  • BBC Radio 1
  • BBC Radio 1Xtra
  • BBC Radio 2
  • BBC Radio 3
  • BBC Radio 4
  • BBC Radio 4 extra
  • BBC Radio 5 Live
  • BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
  • BBC Radio 6 Music
  • BBC Asian Network
  • BBC Radio Scotland
  • BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
  • BBC Radio Ulster
  • BBC Radio Foyle
  • BBC Radio Wales
  • BBC Radio Cymru
  • BBC Local Radio
  • BBC World Service

Online & New Technology

  • BBC iPlayer
  • Digital Switchover
  • BBC Online Mobile Red Button

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