Sentence examples for guaranteed licence from inspiring English sources

However, critics would point out that, unlike its commercial competitors, the BBC is unaffected by the economic downturn because of its guaranteed licence fee.

It would be the first significant privatisation for years and comes amid pressure on the BBC from both sides of parliament to share the benefits of its guaranteed licence fee.

Deputy Paul Luxon, chairman of Guernsey's external transport group said they had no mechanism in the island to provide a guaranteed licence like Jersey.

While the BBC has a guaranteed annual licence fee income and has not suffered as much as its commercial rivals from the steep decline in advertising revenue in recent months, the corporation's finances have been hit by the downturn.

Curb the BBC Its income is guaranteed through the licence system, while the profitability of Sky television and the Murdoch newspapers depend on the state of the market.

But this still doesn't guarantee that licence-payers will get the best possible programmes because there still isn't a level playing field in the programme supply market.

Your raw material is the entire back catalogue of every popular music artiste of the past 50 years, uninterrupted by commercials, and while money might not be flowing quite as freely as in the Douglas years, you still have a guaranteed income from the licence fee.

Last year he shared first place with his chairman, but in 2006 Michael Grade has dropped to seventh in the annual barometer of media influence after taking a back seat role during a charter review from which the BBC emerged with the licence fee guaranteed and clutching a largely favourable government white paper.

The World Tour licence guarantees its holder direct participation in the top races, including the Tour de France, the Paris-Roubaix classic and the Giro d'Italia.

The World Tour licence guarantees its holder direct participation in the biggest races of the year.

But having guaranteed the future of the licence fee in the government's white paper in March, the process under Jowell is almost complete.