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The increased spending is planned despite a fall in the BBC&#8217;s share of viewers from 40 per cent in 1998 to just over 30 per cent now.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times headlined its editorial comment &amp;#8220;Auntie&#8217;s got a nerve&amp;#8221; and demanded that the government move towards abolition of the licence system. &amp;#8220;Aunty&amp;#8221; is a term, apparently affectionate in origin, used to describe the media giant, which more recently has been called &amp;#8220;imperial&amp;#8221; by a Labour Party MP.<\/p>\n<p>No one in Britain is allowed to receive TV broadcasts without permission from the BBC. This applies to commercial TV broadcasts and to satellite and cable TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC state broadcaster is asking the government to increase the licence fee by 2.3 per cent above inflation each year from 2007 to 2013. This would increase the price of the licence from the current \u00a3121 to \u00a3180. 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