Sentence examples for expected licence from inspiring English sources

Then came the lower than expected licence fee settlement, round after round of debilitating job cuts and a seemingly never-ending string of scandals, from Jerry Springer: The Opera to "Crowngate" and a string of fake phone-in winners that shook trust in the corporation to the very core and means its activities are now under permanent examination.

Despite their continued achievements, the BBC and Channel 4 are both suffering from crises of confidence: the former partly because of the less than expected licence fee settlement, and the latter because of falling profits and a series of controversies that have put its future as a public service broadcaster in doubt.

Included in the spending figures is a small increase in expected licence fee receipts of about £100m a year, following a sharp downward revision made by the OBR in March.

He added that he expected that licence fee evasion was likely to increase because of the recession.

Lyons also defended the BBC's public funding system, saying that corporation executives understood that money is tight for people in the recession and expected that licence fee evasion would increase.

Indeed, in saying it expected the licence fee to survive until the end of the next charter period in 2026 the report effectively put the abolition of the licence fee off the agenda for short term, a fact lost in the subsequent right wing shrieking.

However, Whittingdale said he expected the licence fee to survive until the end of the next charter period in 2026, but suggested that it could eventually be stripped back to allow people an "element of choice" in what they pay and what services they receive.

A further surge is expected after licences for 3G-enabled mobile phones have finally been issued to China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom as from last week.

Burns said he did not expect the licence fee to disappear within the next 10 years because of the problems of adapting existing set-top boxes to take conditional access.

But Whittingdale has also said he expects the licence fee, currently £145.50, to survive until the end of the BBC's next charter period in 2026, when the broadcasting landscape is likely to be radically different to today.

The industry had expected a digital licence fee of £35.