To say that the TV Licence should be abolished?

I should imagine that figure will ramp up as more people realise you don't need to pay it at all

Oh well 500000 people have cancelled it so it wouldn't surprise me if that's why they unfroze it. Struggling to pay all the peedos pensions. Ate they still paying huws 300000? Ran by a bunch of corrupt SOs

No, it’s just rising with inflation like everything rise, except it’s had a freeze for about the past four years.

And herein lies one of the issues in that people don’t understand how the BBC already operates.

Absolutely loads of BBC dramas are sold to streamers and around the world via BBC studios, so are formats - Strictly is sold all round the world, you’ll find Peaky blinders and Luther on Netflix for example.

If you don’t watch bbc then cancel your licence.

Don’t pay for it then? Remove your coax and watch your ITV shows on ITVX or whatever it’s called.

I really like the BBC content - have seen & heard some fantastic programmes this year. Happy to keep paying the licence fee.

ITvX and Channel 4 catch-up are all bur unwatchable with the ads. There's lots of stuff there I'd like to see, but I won't go near either any more.

As for news, there's no such thing as a genuinely impartial take. The moment you make a choice about what to show and how (because you can't show literally everything), you're opening yourself up to accusations of bias. Since the BBC seems to get accused about equally by left and right, it's probably about as centrist as it can be.

I won't be paying come renewal time.

The misogyny this year has been unbearable and I won't be contributing my finances to that.

It's an absolute rip off. I stopped paying it years ago and don't watch the rubbish they put on bbc, and all the perverts they've employed and protected over the years.

Can't believe people still pay it in this day and age, must be hard-core eastenders fans.

YANBU, I haven't had a TV licence for well over a decade now. We just don't watch live TV and for the amount of content that I want to watch, Netflix had always seemed a much better deal.

They're putting it up again for the people who pay because there is more not paying it. Government ran so obviously they need to do whatever to screw the payer to keep it.

don't the BBC advertise their own services?

I don't. I don't want to watch adverts.

It should be abolished. I used to support it, when there were only four channels available to most people it made sense to have it. It's just not necessary anymore.

For a while I thought there should be a lower licence fee, say £10 a year, to support its news output. But the BBC news is so biased now. (PSA: any news provider who has to tell you they are impartial almost certainly isn't.)

The only way the licence fee could possibly be tolerable to me would be if it granted access to the entire back catalogue of the BBC. Every episode of every series available on demand, not just the tiny selection they put on the iPlayer. That's never going to happen, so just scrap the whole thing. It can still be a voluntary subscription service if there are enough people who want to pay for it.

The BBC's general programming is excellent. My DH and I tend to watch BBC1 and BBC2 the most - out of all the channels.

Its news provision is biased and actually jeopardises our country's security and values in some cases. Actively not what the licence fee to our state broadcaster should be doing.

I'd like the journalistic and programming aspects of the BBC be split out under a subscription model so I can actively support and consume the high quality aspects of the BBC and let the news elements flounder without support.

I've never been anti-BBC. Don't really watch it, do listen to the radio in the car and value the international stuff and so on. CBeebies is a hill I would die on and happily pay the license fee for alone, but I can't imagine they will now need to remake number blocks.

This thread has been a realisation that my views have changed. It's too expensive and yes, I do now resent paying in an era of choice for what is basically a massive monothilic block of rubbish content.

I haven't paid mine for years either. Just went online and declared I don't watch tv and that's it. I don't understand why people would pay it in this day and age because there's so many ways to watch tv now so it should be abolished, it's massively outdated.

That's not true ,you are allowed to have a TV ,as many watch streaming channels, and game etc
You only need a licence if you watch live TV

I think it’s if you watch live tv from any channel and if you access iplayer.

That's not true.
It's against the law to watch live tv or iplayer.
Otherwise you don't need a license.

I used to love the bbc. I’m still a fan of some stuff, the nature programmes, the space programmes, bbc bite size are really educational and good for kids. I watch have I got news for you and some dramas.

I think once dc are older I’ll cancel licence though I never watch live tv and will just use a paid service of my choosing.!

It's all tv channels... We paying by month now. I hope they stop the license. I hate paying it but we do have a TV.

Good news is that's not true.
Think about all the devices that are capable of receiving tv. Your tv, tablets, 'phones etc. etc.
You don't need a license just because you have equipment capable of getting tv.
You need a license if you access live tv. or iplayer.
Ditch it.

I’ve always paid but this year money has been so tight. I seen someone on twitter talking about how they’d not paid for 15 years so I cancelled mine.
It’s a fee I can’t afford and I think you should have the option to pay it or not.
The wording is as thought it’s for all tv channels but isn’t it just the BBC ?

Why don't you just cancel it then and use Disney etc -

Strange thread

So what you're saying is that the current government have no control over institutions of the State, for example the army or police and they run by themselves. Are you talking about the deep state?

That the BBC is full of agents of the state pretending to be journalists and producers that have no political affiliation.

That the BBC does not represent the government's views but the views of state institutions.

That the BBC assisted the UK during the WW2 and it should not have done that and remained impartial.