Radio Blog - Sir Michael Lyons on new licence fee settlement
|11:22 UK time, Monday, 25 October 2010
"In this week's edition of the BBC's in-house newspaper 'Ariel', the main feature is about the heavy workload the BBC's chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson, now has as a result of the recent cull of executive board members. One of her three main responsibilities, it said, was preparing for the renegotiation of the licence fee which was expected to start in 2011 and take a considerable amount of time.
Well hardly had the paper hit the Corporation's corridors than her load suddenly got considerably lighter. On Wednesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the licence fee would be frozen for six years. The negotiations were over before they had started."
Roger Bolton the presenter of Feedback blogged on Friday about the new licence fee settlement. You can read his blog in full, listen to his interview with Chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons and make comments on the Radio Blog.
Laura Murray is Editor of the About the BBC Blog
