Public service broadcasting benefits everyone. You may not be interested in the BBC Asian network but your neighbour might. You might be able to afford £50 for Sky but your poorer neighbours may rely on Match of the Day. Your small contribution benefits people less fortunate than yourself. It's the progressive principle of everyone contributing towards a shared resource for the nation as a whole.
Even if you never use any BBC service its very presence still benefits you because it frees TV and radio from the narrow concern of advertisers. It produces a range and breadth of broadcasting that means there is something for everyone.
It's no surprise that those who seek its abolition are fearful of a national media organisation that seeks to educate and doesn't reduce everything to the lowest common denominator.
Bollocks.Public service broadcasting benefits everyone. .
I don’t believe anyone who says they have no use for the BBC.
It boils down to choice. Love it or loathe it, there is no choice currently. There should be.
The BBC is just a mouthpiece for the Lambeth Labour Party, a propoganda vehicle for a socialist politically correct gulag.
Why not ? I can't think of anything they do that I would deliberately make sure I was available to watch or at least record. I find radio 1 DJ's in the main childish, (bar Clara Anfo) radio 2 is still stuck in the 70's with appalling DJ's, Radio 3 is shite compared to Classic fm, 4 is watered down rubbish etc etc. But as Pace89 has already slagged me off and put me in my place I will go back to sitting in the corner whilst th educated few tune in to Question Time. (that's the one that gives a platform to a racist and allows her to spew bile live on the BBC)