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  • Are you going to switch off the analogue radio signal?
  • How are our broadcasting rules affected by Europe?
  • How can I get digital television?
  • What is community radio?
  • What is digital radio?
  • When will digital switchover happen?
  • Who controls how much money is spent by the BBC on programmes and salaries?
  • Who is responsible for governing the BBC and what is broadcast on its channels?
  • Why are we switching to digital television?
  • Why do students living in university halls of residence have to pay for individual television licenses?
  • Why does the Government not give free TV licences to all pensioners?
  • Why has the license fee kept increasing?
  • Why has the television license fee not been abolished and the BBC made to raise its own revenue?
  • Why is there more and more sport on subscription television and less and less on terrestial? Is this fair to license fee payers?
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