On 1 Jan 1927, the BBC was awarded its Royal Charter. Under the Charter, the BBC obtained permission to charge a license fee from the relevant government minister (Secretary of state for culture, Media and Sport). It is a mandatory license fee levied on any household who owned a color television set, which has later become the main source of income for BBC and guarantees highly autonomous, editorial and Reporting Independence of the media giant. By the way, the total income of BBC is consist of 4 parts—license fee which possess 72%, business commercial 22%, government grant 5%, and others 1%. The total income of BBC in 2013 is over £ 5 billion.
In fact, the whole BBC was running under the discipline of its Royal Charter. The current Charter came into force in 2007 and runs until the end of 2016. It explicitly recognizes the BBC's editorial independence and sets out its public purposes. Under the Charter, the BBC is governed by the BBC Trust, which sets the strategic direction of the BBC and has a clear duty to represent the interests of license fee payers. Operational responsibility rests with the Executive Board. It is responsible for delivering the BBC's services and running the organization in accordance with the overall strategy set by the Trust. This the basic company structure of BBC. Under this structure, BBC generally provides five main services to the public which contains radio, TV, digital, publishing and