BBC licence fee

[bluethrunthru]

Doesn't matter how many people watch it. I don't watch it, yet I am forced to pay for it. And Netflix etc has programmes that interest me. The only TV I've watched on the BBC in the last 5 years was Line of Duty on iplayer. So I don't 'clearly enjoy' it. You just made a baseless assumption

And you clearly don't know much on BBC's reporting in Scotland. The Ofcom complaint numbers and protests as a result of the bias are something you are obviously unfamiliar with. Thats not opinion, that is fact. Do a bit of research on the matter.

So yes, get rid of it. Daylight robbery that people have to pay for such a service.

I have posted on this thread the attachment showing BARB figures for most popular channels - those are facts not assumptions.

The funding it does to Britbox and the like would be cut as revenues fell. Support from the BBC would like as not be unsustainable. Its also a fact that ad revenue is falling - I did research it - look at recent statements from ITV and C4 - ITV profits are decimated - you won't increase the amount of advertising nor the amount they can charge for it by simply creating more space to show it - the damage would be across the board.

From what you say is you don't want to pay. If you have only watched one show in 5 years get rid of your TV and don't pay for a license at all - doesn't look like you will miss it.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

How much should the bbc charge? What is a fair price considering we pay what we pay for Sky, for Netflix etc.

So lets assume they privatise it, are we really going to then pay £300 - £700 per year?

Seems crazy to me.

Just let those that dont want to pay for it to not pay for it. They can miss out on all the stuff it produces but at least they dont have to listen to BBC politics. Nose and face comes to mind tbh

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Doesn't matter how many people watch it. I don't watch it, yet I am forced to pay for it. And Netflix etc has programmes that interest me. The only TV I've watched on the BBC in the last 5 years was Line of Duty on iplayer. So I don't 'clearly enjoy' it. You just made a baseless assumption

And you clearly don't know much on BBC's reporting in Scotland. The Ofcom complaint numbers and protests as a result of the bias are something you are obviously unfamiliar with. Thats not opinion, that is fact. Do a bit of research on the matter.

So yes, get rid of it. Daylight robbery that people have to pay for such a service.

Dont pay? Whats your problem?

Do I need a TV licence?

If you watch 'live' TV, you need a TV licence; there's no avoiding it. But if you watch catch-up without using BBC iPlayer, you could ditch it & save £100s.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

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Or do you want to just cancel the bbc for everyone?

 

[Ancient Citizen]

I‘m trivialising it? You are melting over a ‘foreign woke leftie’ for the crime of having an opinion on a fucking song. I mean, hello?

And in other news we sacked off NI, allowed the economic writ of the EU to run in UK sovereign territory and Scotland nationalism is feeding off our inability to pull the country together.

Jeez.

This foreign woke leftie has just used her platform to trash our traditions, courtesy of the Beeb, which is fine by you, naturally.
Oh, and you lost the EU vote, it's gone, over, so your views on that are just a meaningless deflection.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

How much should the bbc charge? What is a fair price considering we pay what we pay for Sky, for Netflix etc.

So lets assume they privatise it, are we really going to then pay £300 - £700 per year?

Seems crazy to me.

Just let those that dont want to pay for it to not pay for it. They can miss out on all the stuff it produces but at least they dont have to listen to BBC politics. Nose and face comes to mind tbh

This is a fair point, let those who don't want to pay for it, not pay for it.
You do this by decriminalising it, and if it's as respected as everyone says it is there will be no problem for the BBC, everyone who wants to will gladly fork out to hear the next race obsessed lefty no mark advocating what else we should ban or eradicate.
The fly in the ointment is the fact that millions will sack it off, in fact many people are now doing that, and these idiots that now run the BBC just don't realise that the vast majority of Brits won't put up with too much more of this,
and eventually, the decriminalisation will come.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Dont pay? Whats your problem?

Do I need a TV licence?

If you watch 'live' TV, you need a TV licence; there's no avoiding it. But if you watch catch-up without using BBC iPlayer, you could ditch it & save £100s.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

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Or do you want to just cancel the bbc for everyone?

he pays so he can moan about being fleeced.

 

[bluethrunthru]

next race obsessed lefty no mark advocating what else we should ban or eradicate.

that'll be the station who has Kuenessberg living and breathing every Johnson word? The one that platforms JRM and has a man who represents no party on nearly every political programme Nigel Farage - that left leaning one?

 

[Vicious111]

I have posted on this thread the attachment showing BARB figures for most popular channels - those are facts not assumptions.

The funding it does to Britbox and the like would be cut as revenues fell. Support from the BBC would like as not be unsustainable. Its also a fact that ad revenue is falling - I did research it - look at recent statements from ITV and C4 - ITV profits are decimated - you won't increase the amount of advertising nor the amount they can charge for it by simply creating more space to show it - the damage would be across the board.

From what you say is you don't want to pay. If you have only watched one show in 5 years get rid of your TV and don't pay for a license at all - doesn't look like you will miss it.

I have watched about one show on the BBC. I watch quite alot of football and NFL on Sky. I watch plenty of Netflix shows, Disney+ and movies. Stuff that I choose to watch and pay for. Not some, what I know to be exceptionally biased nonsense such as BBC News, Question Time or anything else of that sort. I don't mind the seniors having theirs paid for with our taxes, but I sure as hell should not have to pay for something that does not interest me. It would be like me being forced to pay for ballet lessons. I have no interest in ballet lessons, why on earth would I pay for them?

I am not questioning your facts on viewing figures. I am questioning your assumptions on BBC biased being baseless and my opinion, which is very much not the case. Not to mention that I am sick fed up of the identity politics tripe it seems to endlessly spout out like a big fucking polluting factory. They revel in giving some of these hard-line left wingers a platform to demand that we ignore biology and embrace 99 genders etc. etc. And that's me, a 'liberal'.

 

[Vicious111]

that'll be the station who has Kuenessberg living and breathing every Johnson word? The one that platforms JRM and has a man who represents no party on nearly every political programme Nigel Farage - that left leaning one?

And I quote: "bear in mind YOUR OWN view that the BBC news is biased has no basis in any proof and is merely because they don't report what you want them to."

Make your mind up?

Dont pay? Whats your problem?

Do I need a TV licence?

If you watch 'live' TV, you need a TV licence; there's no avoiding it. But if you watch catch-up without using BBC iPlayer, you could ditch it & save £100s.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

.

Or do you want to just cancel the bbc for everyone?

Don't really fancy getting myself a £1000 fine for not paying for some shite robbing corporation for watching some live sport, do you?

 

[bluethrunthru]

And I quote: "bear in mind YOUR OWN view that the BBC news is biased has no basis in any proof and is merely because they don't report what you want them to."

Make your mind up?

Look you hate the BBC. You are trying to force your minority view - again I refer you to the viewing figures, many people would greatly miss the BBC - If you are unhappy about paying for a service you don't use then as has been shown to you don't pay it if you are not a user you aren't compelled to - that way one little flame of your inner anger will be extinguished.