BBC licence fee

[denislawsbackheel]

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.

Spot on.
Last night on Anthony Sher night on BBC 4 they showed The 2014 RSC production of Henry IV part I. I saw it at the time and was well worth watching it again last night.

 

[hertsblue]

Couldn't it just be funded by allowing advertising like ITV?

This. They then may have to actually stop paying ridiculous salaries ie Lineker 1.3 Million a year.
It was the other year i read Hanson on MOTD was on about 34k, i thought thats a lot for a year for a few minutes of airtime then re-read to realise it was 34k an episode. Surely there are plenty of ex players would would do Linekers job for 50k a year.

 

[jaseirai]

I could put that towards Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime instead.

Or subscribe to one of them, share the details with friends and family and get all three for a tenner a month.

 

[inbetween]

It’s not, you are free to opt out if you don't use the services.

You are not free to opt out, when I moved into my new house it took them 1 week to send me an enforcement letter for if I didn't soon buy a license. That letter also said that if I can't prove that I am not using my TV and/or don't pay then they'll start legal action.

How many opt-outs include a potential visit from TV licensing to search your property to ensure you do not have the capability of watching TV?

 

[N1985]

50p a day for Prime and Netflix is far better than 50p a day to pay the cast of Eastenders and Garth Crooks.

IPTV and a VPN. Help the older folk if you can to sort it. Not having my old man pay £160 a year to those cunts.

Ditch the lot of it. Haven't paid for it in 10 years. Never plan to.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I could put that towards Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime instead.

Two of those services combined exceed the cost of the BBC. You don't get live sport with any apart from seasonal football or Tennis on prime.

Most of the content on Netflix isn't produced by them but licensed.

So can we have your assurance you won't be watching any content that the BBC has either originally produced or done so as a joint venture?

Because the beeb would have helped minimise costs for the streamers and helped to keep user's subscription fees down.

 

[blueparrot]

50p a day for Prime and Netflix is far better than 50p a day to pay the cast of Eastenders and Garth Brooks.

Ditch the lot of it. Haven't paid for it in 10 years. Never plan to.

If I only watched Eastenders and Garth Brooks ? (the singer ?) I'd agree.

 

[N1985]

If I only watched Eastenders and Garth Brooks ? (the singer ?) I'd agree.

To be fair he could probably teach Crooks a few things about football.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

You are not free to opt out, when I moved into my new house it took them 1 week to send me an enforcement letter for if I didn't soon buy a license. That letter also said that if I can't prove that I am not using my TV and/or don't pay then they'll start legal action.

How many opt-outs include a potential visit from TV licensing to search your property to ensure you do not have the capability of watching TV?

An automated letter. You can write back and opt out or refuse to engage as long as you don't watch live TV.

Don't talk to capita men or women with clipboards. You have no obligation to let them into your property or to communicate with them.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

It's the view amongst Brexity, Daily Mail, anti-woke, expert-threatened types rather than "Tory voters", and it comes from the fact they have ( or had) intelligent analysts who called out their lies occasionally.

I'm a centrist who isn't wed to any party and I won't watch BBC news because it bends over backwards to appear by giving two sides to every story relating to the government even when only one side is sensible. That's because Patel and the likes are holding the sword of damocles over it to try to turn in into their version of Russia Today because they know they are governing on a web of lies and spin aimed downmarket.