A Quote by Ant McPartlin

Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.

Ant McPartlin

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Ant McPartlin
English - Celebrity
Born: November 18, 1975

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

Gavyn Davies

We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

Gary Lineker

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

Tessa Jowell

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.

Hugo Weaving

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

Julian Cope

So many older people are on a very small budget and just wouldn't be able to afford a TV licence.

Vera Lynn

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Gavyn Davies

I don't have a TV licence. I don't watch except on catch-up.

Noel Edmonds

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.