BBC vote. Would you pay a subscription?

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Inspired by the thread in AIBU regarding the public consultation.

Just a vote. I'm curious just to see the numbers.

If the government removed the licence fee and all bbc services moved to subscription only - like Netflix, sky etc, and this subscription was the same price as the current tv licence - would you subscribe?

You would not be able to view or listen to any BBC content without subscribing.

Subscription would be completely your choice and you would be free to watch other live tv eg itv etc without it. Just like if you dont have a sky account you can still watch channel 4.

I’d rather it allowed adverts and was free. I do pay the tv licence now though. But if it’s a funding issue then let ads in.

Why shouldn't it be? The BBC's a publisher. It employs journalists, researchers, editors. You can't be thinking they should do it for nothing?

Yes just for radio output

They should go subscription for tv, switch it to digital almost everyone has a tv which accesses digital now - do you need a licence number to unlock

and if a shortfall fund radio and website from government funds it would be a disaster to lose bbc radio and their website is brilliant

Simple answer yes
for radio alone

Nope- biased news reporting has caused huge problems.

I should have made it clearer.
All live written reporting.
Tv licence does not just cover BBC, it covers all live tv no matter what you play it through. So I meant all live written reporing whether on bbc or Dailymail or sky

Its ridiculous that people have to pay for a BBC licence just to watch live tv on other channels. I’m not interested in BBC output but would like to watch other things ie GBBO or GPTD live.

You are if you watch any terrestrial TV or need to have terrestrial TV. The BBC should be forced to run real commercials (they constantly run ads as it is promoting their own stuff). They should become a commercial enterprise, it might actually force them to manage themselves properly. Their news is borderline negligent. There's an awful lot of not very good people across programming, who've managed to get kicked upstairs and/or sideways because they're impossible to sack. And frankly, it shows.

I think it was because the BBC owned and ran all the broadcasting infrastructure. Google tells me a private company called Arqiva does it now, so it doesn't make much sense.

I do believe the BBC being publicly funded allows it to produce quality content that holds other channels to higher standards, though. Once you're reliant on advertisers' money, you're beholden to their priorities and this can certainly compromise quality/independence.

In the modern era it is madness that the BBC is not a subscription model. I would subscribe as I listen/watch but then I am late 40s. My children (teens and oldest is an adult) on the other hand, watch/listen to no BBC content and haven’t done for several years. When I was their age I used the BBC a lot but social media, youtube and a host of other channels didn’t exist then.

We watch a lot of BBC content, especially the kids stuff. I’d prefer a subscription model if you can dip in and out like other platforms. The license model is outdated.

No!
I genuinely don't watch the BBC at all I might watch 3 hours of tv a week, sometimes less. Apart from the soaps on itv I can't remember anything I've watched for ages. I don't pay the license fee now . I often wonder if I should just sell my tv.

Same.
No interest in any BBC content and do resent getting endless letters from them which now just go straight into recycling without ironing.

This!!!!

Even if it is was 1p would be too much. A hard no.

Yes, I’d pay. I do watch a lot of BBC things, and I think things like CBeebies, documentaries and the educational content are really worth investing in even if I’m not directly using them them myself.

Why would you iron them?

You meam you don't iron your mail?

Weird. 😮

If you can dip and out of it, so pay monthly, cancel for a few months and then resubscribe, then yes. I only use BBC for cbeebies and tbh a lot of those programs are on YouTube.

😂 Some typos are pure gold.

I don’t even own an iron 😂😂😂

Probably not. I rarely watch it