Overview
- The Green Paper invites views on limited advertising and subscription or top‑up models, potentially paywalling popular entertainment while keeping news, factual and children’s content universally available.
- Officials are exploring updated concessions and sliding‑scale or means‑tested arrangements to ease costs for lower‑income households, with the £174.50 fee under pressure from declining payers.
- Proposals include strengthening independence, elevating accuracy alongside impartiality, clearer explanations of editorial decisions, and new board duties on workplace misconduct and appointments.
- Funding for the World Service and minority‑language broadcasting, including S4C, is under review, along with ideas to boost regional economic growth, skills and commissioning outside London.
- The consultation will inform a White Paper in 2026 and a new charter before the current one expires in December 2027, as the BBC welcomes the process and faces heightened scrutiny including a lawsuit from President Donald Trump.