Thread: How to stop subsidising the BBC

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

I think the BBC is a fine institution. Whose going to make all the wildlife shows and documentaries? Maybe a PBS style system would work but not after all these years.

User pay is the modern "business" model for stingy, cheap people who don't want to pay for anything, it won't fly either.

Coronation Street with adverts is not my cup of tea!

I am pretty sure Corrie has ads and is not a BBC production.

Originally Posted by Necron99

That said, national broadcasters are a bit of a dinosaur, they don't perform the purpose for which they were created which was to provide news and content unbiased by commercial considerations. ABC is a hotbed of left leaning nanny state commies day in day out. Necron99 is offline Add to Necron99's Reputation Report Post

Hear, hear!
It would be so much better if private entrepreneurs like Murdoch was in charge of the programme tableau.

The TV license fee was understandable when there was only one channel to watch and nothing else to watch on TV, DVDs or videos . So, if you had a TV , you were watching the BBC .
Nowadays people can choose to have Sky TV , so people should be able to opt out of viewing the BBC on TVs and therefore not have to pay .
I did have a TV , but I never watched the BBC , so I didnt get a licence . I may have watched the occasional live sports event , but I watched it free, I didnt feel watching such a minimal amount of content was worthy of paying such a large yearly fee

Just out of interest, what does a tv license cost per year?.

Google : *How much does a UK TV licence cost*

Originally Posted by Headworx

Just out of interest, what does a tv license cost per year?.

£145.50.

In My first Marriage to a God Squad religious enforcer, The Wife, We lived without a television, because We knew that it was Worldly shit that God frowned on.
But the BBC licensing enforcer refused to believe that folks could live without a Wi Fi connection, smart phone, We had to talk to each other then, non of this computer stuff.

Dear oh Dear...those poor little socialists are just trying to sign you up for something you really need. :-). I am a really big fan of the BBC World Service and it kept me sane for 20 years in the US. It was actually free (through a live link-up) via WNYC NPR for four hours every night. Payment was strictly voluntary though i was quite glad to throw them a shilling or two whenever their annual appeal came round...

I mean for Christ's sake, you've seen what the alternative is, if you rely on Fox News - that dumbass Jeanine Piro saying that Manchester is a "no-go area for non-Muslims". She's like the east-coast version of Sarah Palin - kinda hot looking, definitely intellectually challenged but guys would tune in even if she's only reading the phone book...