The BBC External Services are paid for by a Grant-in-Aid from the Foreign 
Office. The money does NOT come from the television licence fee, but from 
general taxation.

John F5VLF

On 31 Jan 2011, at 14:43CET, mal hamilton wrote:

> Confucius he say IF IT IS NOT PAYING CLOSE IT DOWN
> 1200 staff employed to keep it running !!!!
> £140 per licence to BBC and a criminal offence if it is not paid if you have
> a TV
> G3KEV