BBC licence fee

BlueMoonday said:
That's great! Not everybody does, so there's no reason a compulsory subscription should be enforced on everybody.
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Can't believe anyone that says they can't find 50p / day half the price of a newspaper or £3.50/ weeks worth of viewing or listening across all the BBC platforms. and programming.
 
BlueMoonday said:
This is from 1986 when the BBC actually provided value with funny sitcoms (including OFAH) and test cricket was free to air. You couldn't make a point like that applying today's offering..
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They still do produce loads of award winning comedies and dramas, you just don't like them and think that means no one does.

Test cricket was not on the BBC in 1986, so that's simply not true, and there's more free to air sport on the BBC now then there was then by a country mile.
 
It's perfectly simple, those who watch the BBC and like it's content should pay for it. If the BBC chooses to alienate a large section of it's audience that should and will come with a cost as those people stop supporting the license fee. A subscription model or the BBC disappearing completely will not bother me in the slightest because I never watch it these days, so see absolutely no reason why I should pay for it. This is becoming more and more the mainstream view amongst Tory voters, so I could see this happening in the not too distant future.
 
hgblue said:
It's perfectly simple, those who watch the BBC and like it's content should pay for it. If the BBC chooses to alienate a large section of it's audience that should and will come with a cost as those people stop supporting the license fee. A subscription model or the BBC disappearing completely will not bother me in the slightest because I never watch it these days, so see absolutely no reason why I should pay for it. This is becoming more and more the mainstream view amongst Tory voters, so I could see this happening in the not too distant future.
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And the younger generations who mostly livestream their content and don't generally watch the BBC.
 
Growing up on a council estate, me and my mates had our heads turned by stuff like I Claudius, Dennis Potter plays, Monty Python, and Moviedrome.

So if the BBC had not existed, maybe we would have ended up like that vulgarian, flinty philistine Dorries, who is about cultured as the arse end of a pantomime horse, as well as being as thick as pig shit.

And the BBC is still capable of broadening horizons today, through the medium of foreign series like Spiral and the Hollow Crown adaptations of Shakespeare’s history plays.

Just recently watched an outstanding series on Japanese art and culture through the iPlayer, and not long before that a mesmerising version of King Lear.

In other words, the BBC is about more than just politics, regardless of what one thinks about the licence fee.
 
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hgblue said:
It's perfectly simple, those who watch the BBC and like it's content should pay for it. If the BBC chooses to alienate a large section of it's audience that should and will come with a cost as those people stop supporting the license fee. A subscription model or the BBC disappearing completely will not bother me in the slightest because I never watch it these days, so see absolutely no reason why I should pay for it. This is becoming more and more the mainstream view amongst Tory voters, so I could see this happening in the not too distant future.
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Hopefully cunts who vote Tory are a dying breed.
 
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