Increased Pressure On BBC Promotions

Radio and television companies are uniting to form an attack on the BBC’s commercial activities which they see as an unfair use of licence fee money. The ITV Association, representing all ITV companies, and the Commercial Radio Companies Association are to meet sometime next month to discuss a possible public lobbying of the Corporation’s pay television ventures which are funded through the licence fee.

This development follows a number of criticisms last week of the BBC’s promotion of radio services on its TV channels (subscribers see Radio Industry Denounces BBC’s Self-Promotion).

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