Funding
The fact that the BBC's domestic services are funded by television licence fees is criticised by its competitors and others on a number of grounds.
The recent rise of multi-channel digital television has led to criticism that the licence fee is unjustifiable on the basis that minority interest programmes can now be transmitted on specialist commercial channels and that the licence fee is funding a number of digital-only channels which many licence holders cannot watch (for example BBC Three and BBC Four). After 24th of October 2012, with the completion of the digital switchover all licence payers can now access this content.
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