BBC licence fee

43p a day is good value for not having to listen to commercial radio. For example talk sport and their constant ad breaks and that growly voiced tit interjecting all the time .

if the govt wants to help people save money start with insulating all homes for free, simplifying and reducing energy prices, and reducing the extortionate cost of public ( ha ha ) transport.
 
Mëtal Bikër said:
Nobody is saying scrap the BBC though. They want the mandatory licence fee scrapped. Make the BBC a subscription service. Where's the problem? Those that want it will obviously continue to keep paying and allow those that don't the option not to anymore.
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By making it a subscription service like Netflix and Amazon it is then no longer a public service broadcaster.

By all means change the licence fee to a tax but to scrap it completely for a subscription service is a very selfish attitude, many programmes on TV and radio would disappear as they'd be seen as not commercially viable.

Think of the BBC as a library but on TV, you might not use libraries but if on the odd occasion you do pop in, would you get angry that they cater for everyone's needs and that your money is helping to pay for it?
 
ROCKET80 said:
By making it a subscription service like Netflix and Amazon it is then no longer a public service broadcaster.

By all means change the licence fee to a tax but to scrap it completely for a subscription service is a very selfish attitude, many programmes on TV and radio would disappear as they'd be seen as not commercially viable.

Think of the BBC as a library but on TV, you might not use libraries but if on the odd occasion you do pop in, would you get angry that they cater for everyone's needs and that your money is helping to pay for it?
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To be honest I’d rather they just taxed it so we didn’t notice.

Every time I have to call to pay it knowing it’s going to some snivelling rag ****’s wages in Salford it pisses me off.
 
Be lost without CBeebies for my little one when he has breakfast- absolutely loves it.

BBC is a great institution that has worked perfectly fine for many years - it’s only because we live in a angry social media world that people begrudge having it - some would rather watch 24/7 coverage of news channels hating immigrants, Megan Merkle and the EU
 
I love a lot of BBC stuff that I really don't think would get made on other channels This Country, The Detectorists and Gone Fishing off the top of my head in recent years.

I do think there's some massive excess there though. The Saturday night stuff they trot out like The Wheel, Strictly etc must cost a fortune and doesn't interest me in the slightest.

They send 100's of people over to Glastonbury, The Olympics and World Cups etc.

And I'm not sure you can justify paying Gary Lineker and Zoe Ball over a million a year is right when you are charging the poorest families a license fee when they may not watch a minute of it.
 
I think most of us have a grumble about the BBC every now and again. But most of us end up using it in some form without even noticing. I can’t see this happening anyway. Seems odd the two very popular ideas flouted on the right for years (Scrapping BBC and navy in the English channel) have come about just as the government is under the spotlight for party gate.

If they were serious about selling this to the masses, I doubt they’d have Nadine Dorries heading it too.
 
I rarely watch bbc compared to years ago, but I am happy to pay for it as is for what I do use it for, plus the output it puts out in local radio, educational programing and 43p a day is worth bbc4 & 6 music for me
 
Octavian said:
To be honest I’d rather they just taxed it so we didn’t notice.

Every time I have to call to pay it knowing it’s going to some snivelling rag ****’s wages in Salford it pisses me off.
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Why do you have to call to pay it?

DD set up that runs ad infinitum unless you move house.
 
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