{"id":130769,"date":"2020-02-05T02:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/05\/bbc-licence-fee-proposals-to-deciminalise-non-payment\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T02:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:29:03","slug":"bbc-licence-fee-proposals-to-deciminalise-non-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=130769","title":{"rendered":"BBC licence fee: proposals to deciminalise non-payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporation faces cut in income if plan goes ahead following public consultationThe BBC is facing deep funding cuts under proposals to stop prosecuting people for non-payment of the licence fee as the government launches a consultation on the issue.Ministers acknowledged that any change would inevitably result in a reduction in income for the national broadcaster \u2013 requiring further cuts to its output \u2013 but suggested that it was unfair to pursue individuals through the criminal courts if they watch live television without subsidising the BBC. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/feb\/05\/bbc-facing-funding-cut-as-licence-fee-consultation-launched\" target=\"_blank\">BBC licence fee: proposals to deciminalise non-payment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporation faces cut in income if plan goes ahead following public consultationThe BBC is facing deep funding cuts under proposals to stop prosecuting people for non-payment of the licence fee as the government launches a consultation on the issue.Ministers acknowledged that any change would inevitably result in a reduction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}