Ministers have also pledged to continue current level of funding until after government has reviewed BBC’s charterThe Welsh language broadcaster S4C has been saved from BBC budget cuts after the BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead agreed to protect its licence fee funding until 2018.
In a letter to the channel’s boss, Fairhead said she was pledging to continue providing the £74.5m per year from the BBC for the 2017-18 financial year in order to supply stability while the government reviews the broadcaster’s wider future.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com