The BBC's new director-general, Matt Brittin, pictured at Wimbledon, has described the broadcaster as facing a 'moment of real jeopardy'.

BBC's annual report touts BAFTA wins and record ratings even as editorial controversies and a third annual deficit deepen its funding crisis.

Director general Matt Brittin says funding model ties corporation to the past as number of licences falls by 539,000

Another 500,000 people axe the licence fee as BBC warns 'unsustainble' funding model is broken

The BBC's new director-general, Matt Brittin, pictured at Wimbledon, has described the broadcaster as facing a 'moment of real jeopardy'.

The BBC’s licence fee income has dropped by more than £1 million over the past decade

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As more than half a million people stopped paying the licence fee last year, it seems the Corporation's presenters are still being paid too much, says NICOLA METHVEN

JAMIE ANGUS: Last year, 539,000 households stopped paying the £174.50 fee, a much faster drop than expected and an increase of more than 75 per cent on the previous year's 300,000…

The number of households paying for a television licence fell by half a million last year - a drop of 2.5million since 2019 - after a series of scandals rocked the BBC.

Director general Matt Brittin said he was 'open to all options' to fund the broadcasting giant after it was revealed that licence fee income has dropped by more than £1billion in…