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Sky, BT have more revenue per year now than the BBC licence fee revenue + commercial income. So bigger budgets than bbc. £145.50 per year is about £3 a week. Less than an albion programme. Lower than any sky subscription and pays for 8 TV channels, 12 national radio stations, iplayer, the...

The BBC has just renewed the MOTD contract , and still has 6 nations, Wimbledon, Olympics, World Cup, fa cup, euros etc so not just Wolf Hall and the like but agreed sports rights are expensive and sky/by/Al jazeera (ie:Bein) /ITV all competing means they are increasing exponentially...

The BBC agrees which is why it's saving £1.1bn a year via pay restraint, staff cuts, fewer buildings and better contracts http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-savings But the market for sports rights is very competitive and Sky no longer have to fund champions league + Europa...

Do you support an increase in the licence fee ? It's been flat for 5 years and now includes the entire budget of the world service and even pays for projects such as (commercial) local TV and rolling out broadband. Sports rights are more expensive than ever.