Claim: The BBC lost £150 million a year because the licence fee didn't cover iPlayer until 1 September 2016.
Fact-check: The £150 million BBC licence fee loophole? - Full Fact
Verdict: the bbc has said that it will make £150 million less in 2016/17 from licence fees than it had expected in 2011, which it attributes to fewer people owning tvs and more people watching programmes online. the bbc doesn't publish these forecasts so nobody can assess the reliability of this claim.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2016-09-01T00:00:00