tv licence

[mcmanus]

Nobody should be forced to pay a tax for TV they don't watch so that others can.

Health and education yeah no probs but paying for someone's elses choice of telly nah.

 

[marco]

The BBC is great because they don't just pander to your Eastenders type audience. That's what ITV do because they have to put on what people will watch. As a result you have episode after episode of The Only Way is Essex or some crap like that.

The BBC has something for everybody, and it doesn't just make programmes because it thinks they will be popular. It makes them because they think it might have some critical value.

So all of you people saying that people who want to watch Eastenders should just pay for it themselves are missing the point of the BBC. It's a service provided so that those with more obscure tastes can enjoy the service as much as those with more mainstream tastes. If we had to pay for each programme we watch then some things would just would never have been made.

Wonders of the Universe with Brian Cox? Nope, kiss goodbye to that.
Planet Earth and other Attenborough series? Would never have been made.
Countless Panarama series and investigative services? Wouldn't bother.
THE NEWS? Who is going to pay for an independent news service when there are so many free alternatives (paid for by Murdoch)?

No, the BBC is an institution and when you look at American TV with advertisements every two seconds and programming that's been paid for by politically guided companies to brainwash their citizens, I think people severely under appreciate how good we have it.

Great shout mate.

Agreed.

The BBC is also responsible for the UK leading the world in the film industry, so many of our technicians come through the BBC ranks, were they get the very best training available. The independent TV companies have no mandate or need to develop the future skills that will be needed in the future. And dont forget the BBC is much more than just TV. The world service is admired across the planet and raises the UK profile, the BBC website is one of the busiest in the world. Its because its a public broadcaster its reputation for reporting news impartially is widely admired.

good post rascal there is no doubting in what your saying however i think what gets peoples backs up is that the population are forced to purchase the licence, i'd be quite happy to have a device that wouldnt alow me to watch the BBC infact at a reasonable cost i would pay for it myself, like my above post people should have the democratic right if the wish to subscribe or not

 

[hgblue]

Great shout mate.

Agreed.

The BBC is also responsible for the UK leading the world in the film industry, so many of our technicians come through the BBC ranks, were they get the very best training available. The independent TV companies have no mandate or need to develop the future skills that will be needed in the future. And dont forget the BBC is much more than just TV. The world service is admired across the planet and raises the UK profile, the BBC website is one of the busiest in the world. Its because its a public broadcaster its reputation for reporting news impartially is widely admired.

good post rascal there is no doubting in what your saying however i think what gets peoples backs up is that the population are forced to purchase the licence, i'd be quite happy to have a device that wouldnt alow me to watch the BBC infact at a reasonable cost i would pay for it myself, like my above post people should have the democratic right if the wish to subscribe or not

But the tax is there so that we have publicly funded broadcasting in this country. The fact that the BBC is publicly funded means that we have a means to ensure that a certain amount of quality programming is broadcast, and not just endless low budget American re-runs and lowest common denamonator reality shite. This is what you are paying your tax for. Nobody cares whether you watch the BBC or not.

 

[Rascal]

Nobody should be forced to pay a tax for TV they don't watch so that others can.

Health and education yeah no probs but paying for someone's elses choice of telly nah.

As long as the Govt promsed to ring fence the BBC budget, i would have no problem in the Licence fee being removed or reduced to a statutory £1 a year.

Its the licence in essence that gives us the ownership, any removal could leave the BBC open to private buyers.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Great shout mate.

Agreed.

The BBC is also responsible for the UK leading the world in the film industry, so many of our technicians come through the BBC ranks, were they get the very best training available. The independent TV companies have no mandate or need to develop the future skills that will be needed in the future. And dont forget the BBC is much more than just TV. The world service is admired across the planet and raises the UK profile, the BBC website is one of the busiest in the world. Its because its a public broadcaster its reputation for reporting news impartially is widely admired.

good post rascal there is no doubting in what your saying however i think what gets peoples backs up is that the population are forced to purchase the licence, i'd be quite happy to have a device that wouldnt alow me to watch the BBC infact at a reasonable cost i would pay for it myself, like my above post people should have the democratic right if the wish to subscribe or not

There is no doubt that the people enforcing the TV License have rather belligerent methods which some may feel impinge on their right of choice. I would agree with people who say they're a bit militant about something which is an 'act' and not a law. That said, I think this is a separate issue and this doesn't make the TV License, in and of itself, a bad thing.

People DO have a choice, nobody can be forced to buy a license. All you have is a basic proviso, which is that if you contribute to privatised television stations, then you should contribute in some way to public television to help maintain a balance of responsibility between public and private broadcasters. You might see this as unnecessary or a 'tax' but I would disagree. I think like with all industries, the private sector needs to be subject to at least 'some' regulation, just so that on the most basic level it can't be allowed to take advantage of, and manipulate, the general population for profit.

The media is a powerful powerful tool and if you give a monopoly of it to any one entity then you are leaving people vulnerable to manipulation. That is why I think a public TV service is an absolute necessity in a progressive society, people will complain because they are being made to pay money, but in the long term I think it's in the best interests of everybody.

 

[urmston]

The media is a powerful powerful tool and if you give a monopoly of it to any one entity then you are leaving people vulnerable to manipulation. That is why I think a public TV service is an absolute necessity in a progressive society, people will complain because they are being made to pay money, but in the long term I think it's in the best interests of everybody.

Just what is 'public service' about dross like Eastenders, Casualty and most of the rubbish which comprises 90% plus of the BBC's output?

If the licence fee was about £20 and was used to fund good, high quality TV and radio which the commercial sector doesn't provide I wouldn't object to paying it.

But why have a massive taxpayer funded broadcaster which wastes nearly all of our money on making more of the trash that the commercial sector already provides in vast quantities?

 

[hgblue]

The media is a powerful powerful tool and if you give a monopoly of it to any one entity then you are leaving people vulnerable to manipulation. That is why I think a public TV service is an absolute necessity in a progressive society, people will complain because they are being made to pay money, but in the long term I think it's in the best interests of everybody.

Just what is 'public service' about dross like Eastenders, Casualty and most of the rubbish which comprises 90% plus of the BBC's output?

If the licence fee was about £20 and was used to fund good, high quality TV and radio which the commercial sector doesn't provide I wouldn't object to paying it.

But why have a massive taxpayer funded broadcaster which wastes nearly all of our money on making more of the trash that the commercial sector already provides in vast quantities?

But if the BBC only produced 'worthy' programming like Natural History, Documentaries, etc, and didn't produce any 'popular' programs, you'd have people queuing up to say they never watch the BBC, so what's the point of the license fee? They can't win can they?

 

[marco]

The media is a powerful powerful tool and if you give a monopoly of it to any one entity then you are leaving people vulnerable to manipulation. That is why I think a public TV service is an absolute necessity in a progressive society, people will complain because they are being made to pay money, but in the long term I think it's in the best interests of everybody.

Just what is 'public service' about dross like Eastenders, Casualty and most of the rubbish which comprises 90% plus of the BBC's output?

If the licence fee was about £20 and was used to fund good, high quality TV and radio which the commercial sector doesn't provide I wouldn't object to paying it.

But why have a massive taxpayer funded broadcaster which wastes nearly all of our money on making more of the trash that the commercial sector already provides in vast quantities?

i think the first poster is aiming more towards the news channels but however yes most of the programs are trash and as for the world service why should i subscribe for some cave man who lives in cambodia

 

[Innsbruckblue]

I think it'S great that you guys pay a licence fee, so that I can watch BBC World for free!

 

[marco]

I think it'S great that you guys pay a licence fee, so that I can watch BBC World for free!

i thnik that sums it up 'no offence to the posetr' but the beeb wont be getting another penny off me