To think the TV License should be scrapped

Again that's just your opinion though you clearly think it's worth the licence fee that's fine
People are allowed to disagree.

Horrible Histories is great and worth the licence fee alone.
Call the Midwife is reasonably a nice programme.
My mum likes that crime drama set in Cornwall (?) and the couple of episodes I have seen are fairly watchable.
There's probably more that I can't think of on the top of my head.
You really can't say that all BBC programmes are awful.

Should be subscription.

I havent had a TV license for 15 years. I dont watch live TV and the only thing I miss is the occasional football match. Theres a few things I would watch on itv but im not paying the BBC for that pleasure, so I watch it on streaming instead. There's absolutely nothing I want to watch on BBC, nor do I listen to any of their radio services or use their website.

Same. We’re paying to watch a series (Slow Horses) then we’ll stop. Seems a good way to do it.

Was that the pensions breach or has there been another one, loads of people had data stolen in the Capital pensions one, including myself

They used to detect them in the 60s, when it was the old vhf 405 line tellys, do you remember them, we had a little round b and w one that sat on the sideboard. Once the 625 line ones came out, it was much more difficult. They wouldn't detect them in the 90s, did they even have vans then.

In your opinion.

Ok if you have seen selected BBC made programmes you must have had the bad luck to watch the rubbish ones.
There's some good stuff too. It's a mixture. Some stuff is great.

With Netflix, Now TV etc I can pause them for a month if I'm not going to watch them

I'd be in favour of paying for the BBC if I could opt in and out like that. Their model is too old fashioned

The BBC has an immense back catalogue of decades of content that it ought to be able to monetise, particularly overseas, to at least significantly subsidise its current services. I've never fully understood why it's never really succeeded with that.

I never watch the BBC. It seems to be nothing but cooking, gardening, and dancing shows, and Eastenders, none of which I am interested in.

I do enjoy ITV dramas, but unless I am willing to pay for a service I do not want or use, I can't watch them without being criminalised by the BBC or waiting for them to hit Netflix/catch up.

How is that fair? Once people have to start paying for Disney Plus, so that I can watch Netflix, I will start paying for a TV license, until then I will put up with the shitty letters telling me I will go to prison and expecting me to prove that I am not commiting a crime (for all other crimes, the onus on the state to prove a crime occured not the accused to prove they didn't).

They've lost a potential customer in me, because if it were a subscription service, I would pay for it when Dr Who is showing.

It needs to be subscription only. It only speaks to the well off. Nearly all BBC journalists have been to private school. The minority that haven't, have been to very prestigious grammar schools.

They think they are diverse but they are totally unrepresentative of the UK in terms of class and opinion. They think they know what's going on, but they only know how life is for the well off. If people want to subscribe to that, they're welcome to.

Also: Capita have just been fined £14m for a data breach. I object to the BBC using Capita.

"Opting out" means I have to go on the BBC website to give them (Capita) my name, address, email address and IP address just to tell them I don't use the BBC's service

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

There are lots of things you get taxed for but don't use. How often do you use an ambulance or fire brigade?

I'm happy to continue to pay tax to fund these things for contingent use. I do not use the BBC and never will, and I refuse to pay to have hilariously biased regional news piped into my home.

Lots of people enjoy and need the BBC

Cool, they can continue to fund it then...

Also, you do need a license for BBC iPlayer by the way, those of you who think you don't need one

and ffs, it's "licence".

@XDownwiththissortofthingX
yes it is a myth, but they rely on some people being gullible, sadly.

there are some photos of the vans, the ones that aren’t scrapped are in museums, literally museum pieces 🤣

This is nonsense.

At no point has the BBC ever operated any sort of "detection" equipment.

@x2boys

Golden Rule - never engage with a Crapita Goon

Because they were stupid enough to answer the door and admit to.it.....

I didn't renew my TV in Jan/Feb. I've been sent about 20 letters and I must say they are pretty threatening. We've had one chap come to the house and told him we don't watch TV. They then sent another letter.

I did watch Strike on BBC when I had a licence and will want to watch the new series when it comes out. But that's £40+ an episode when it's the only thing you will watch. I'll just go somewhere with a TV licence and watch it there.

The nature of the letters makes me determined to never watch TV again. I've paid for years without getting my monies worth and they've never asked if I think I get value for money, or what would make it more worthwhile, just threats of investigation. They won't get a penny out of me for that alone. The wording on the website is also ambiguous and I feel attempts to trick people in buying it when they probably don't need it.

I tend to think of the £12 as a subscription to the BBC as I would Netflix etc.

If you're considering evading it, be aware it carries a criminal conviction, which can be a lifelong problem, and not totally unlikely as 50,000 people found out last year...

It's not about whether you have a tv or not. It's about watching bbc or live tv.

There's many tv service providers that support themselves without old fashioned scare mongering. Bbc need to move with the times... or disappear

Because I used to watch it when I paid the outdated licence fee.
Plus I travel a lot and come across bbc, which is free outside of the UK

It is a charge per household. Collect it with the council tax and have a system of opting out if you have no tv. Cost of collection and enforcement would be almost nil, and the charge could probably be reduced by 10 per cent at least.

The BBC don't help their cause by not knowing when to end a series (flogging dead horses so to speak) and the three word argument for licence fee abolition, Mrs Brown's Boys.

How do you know it's rubbish if you don't watch it 🤔