LONDON: The BBC lost more than £1.1 billion in revenues in 2024-2025 as UK citizens dodged the licence fee and fewer homes felt the need to apply for one, a parliamentary committee report said Friday.
The report came just hours before another member of the BBC board resigned Friday, a month before the end of his term, over what he called “governance issues” at the corporation.
“Shumeet Banerji today notified the BBC Board of his resignation,” a BBC spokeperson said.
They added that his “term on the Board as a non-executive director was due to end at the end of December”.
It has been a turbulent few weeks for the British broadcaster, which faces a possible hefty lawsuit, after it admitted to a misleading edit of a speech by US President Donald Trump.
Trump has said he could claim up to $5 billion in damages for alleged defamation over the edit, which spliced together his words to give the impression that he was directly calling for “violent action” during the January 2021 march on the US Congress.
The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and head of news, Deborah Turness, both resigned on November 9 after Trump attacked “corrupt journalists”.
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