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BBC.. time to call it a day ?

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Shudahaddogs · 31/07/2024 19:20

How much can one corporation get wrong before we all say enough?

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AuntieJoyce · 31/07/2024 19:46

I’m not really enjoying their Olympics coverage. I just went into the iPlayer to watch the triathlon and they’ve cut down our gold medal win to literally four minutes of watching. Just shit.

lazzapazza · 31/07/2024 19:44

Happy for it to carry on self funded. Bloody sick of the expense of a TV license due to their massive cut.

TonTonMacoute · 31/07/2024 19:42

God, I gave up on them years ago. Still have to pay the licensing fee though sadly.

DS (25) doesn't watch them either and apparently many of his generation don't either. I guess it'll just peter out eventually and become a complete irrelevance.

Didimum · 31/07/2024 19:42

We are incredibly lucky to have the BBC. I would be extremely worried if it ceased service.

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Shudahaddogs · 31/07/2024 19:41

MorrisZapp · 31/07/2024 19:20

Calm down dear.

I know right, let me just ask a man to explain it all. Silly me.

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Cocothecoconut · 31/07/2024 19:39

So many repeats and why do they need to broadcast so many news channels and pay presenters stupid money for sitting on their arses talking shite

C1N1C · 31/07/2024 19:35

I think a good metric of the BBC is Doctor Who and Children in Need.

Both have turned into abysmal farces. If I could stop paying the TV license and never see BBC again, I'd be all for it.

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Shudahaddogs · 31/07/2024 19:32

suburberphobe · 31/07/2024 19:26

Absolutely not. I love the BBC.

Me too.

And so do millions around the world. (BBC World Service).

Would you rather have Putin dictating news OP? Or that crazy N.K. Kim?

Wait till Trump gets in (Go! Kamala!). Then we are totally fucked.

I would rather women on a Saturday night not having to dance with a fracture or news readers having pled guilty..seems little to ask..

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Movinghouseatlast · 31/07/2024 19:27

The BBC couldn't do anything until he was charged. He wasn't doing anything at work, it wasn't anything to do with the BBC covering anything up. They have said today they would have sacked him if he was charged. Nobody knew.

What if everyone was fired from work just because they had been arrested, with no charge or proof to the employer of their crime?

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Shudahaddogs · 31/07/2024 19:27

Am torn too, seems to be endless Strickly..Edwards..can't someone just sort them out ? Or is it too late ...

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suburberphobe · 31/07/2024 19:26

Absolutely not. I love the BBC.

Me too.

And so do millions around the world. (BBC World Service).

Would you rather have Putin dictating news OP? Or that crazy N.K. Kim?

Wait till Trump gets in (Go! Kamala!). Then we are totally fucked.

Talkinpeace · 31/07/2024 19:23

I love the principle of the BBC
but too much of the News and DEI part of it have UTTERLY lost their way

very torn at the moment

LostTheMarble · 31/07/2024 19:23

Well if that’s the case can we shut down the Royal Family as well? Actually might as well shut down parliament considering how many of them are outed as criminals in some manner…

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 31/07/2024 19:21

They should’ve closed after the Saville ‘open secret’ debacle.

Everyone knew. And the BBC did nothing.

Eversonotwell · 31/07/2024 19:21

How many employers that size have gone through similar with their staff? The NHS has had several murderers through it's book, should they call it a day too?

summerdazey · 31/07/2024 19:21

I'm quite enjoying the Olympics coverage

cupcaske123 · 31/07/2024 19:20

Absolutely not. I love the BBC.

MorrisZapp · 31/07/2024 19:20

Calm down dear.