TO SAY I LIKE THE BBC....but the near £300 license fee needs questioning..Lets question

[ScousyFogarty]

BBC and COMPULSORY LICENSE FEE...(Paid by rich and poor alike.)

It has been suggested that the Beebs automatic cash-flow from rich and poor, should be looked at as the fee gets closer to £300 a year.

Victoria Derbyshire mentions this on her TWITTER site. (Dont know if she has ever done it on her programme.?)

You will notice that when a big name has a book out; they get interviewed on many BBC TV and radion shows. (They are usually rich and could be charged a fee for the free book plug.)

There will be many other ideas as to how the license could be REDUCED or the money RAISED by other means.

Do you have any ideas. ? Or are we going to sit back and watch the license fee go to £300 a year? (Its food for thought.

Victoria Derbyshire and Gabby Logan may well have ideas on this . Ask them if you feel like doing so.

Claig , i shall repent , i shall smack my self repeatedly with slightly damp copies of the daily mail. AND LO !!! I shall reject the false reason of the Guardian and any otherso called ' right thinking' < spits> rag. I shall embrace the rabbid right wing rabbit. !!!!!!

Claig, with this self-parody you are really spoiling us!

Gster, you have seen the light and are now undoubtedly on the path to salvation. But be ever heedful that you do not slip back to your old sinful, blasphemous Guardian ways. May the Mail be ever with you and guide you to the Truth.

BiteSize
CBeebies
CBBC
BBC News - probably the most impartial news service on the planet
Radio 4

They can have my fee just for those. Loveitloveitloveit.

Claig, rest assured i have seeeeeeen the light . Praise BE !

May my buttered turnips of truth shine through for HE has filled me with the TRUTH .

Gster, keep it up. You're now moving in the right direction.

Fed up of the BBC holding the nation to ransom...backsliding gallons of employees into all the festivals and major events...it's time for them to go solo although I may be able to forgive them for the sheer quality that is Horrible Histories...maybe,maybe no I don't think so.

.... hold on , i think the raptures at the front door, be back in a ........

Gster, don't be fooled by false prophets at the front door. That's most probably someone wanting you to subscribe to the Guardian.

The journey will be long and arduous. Around every corner you shall come across assorted demons, ghouls, goblins and Guardian readers who try to tempt you from the path of righteousness. Be thee strong of mind, full of faith and hold thee the Mail in front of you and assuredly you shall suffer no harm. Just a copy of the Mail alone will banish all demons before thee, for the truth is most certainly something they cannot abide.

sorry, I think the bbc is cheap for the radio alone,
I listen to Radio 4, % live, radio 3 and Radio 2.

We watch a lot of docs, science nature docs,
I love the website
And cbeebies a place with no ads

Personally, it's cheap to me, and I've lived in the states, if you want to live somewhere where you can hardly ever escape from ads..

Don't your kids watch cbeebies? Maybe they're older.

My DS is older. But of course the Beeb has many good programmes. It ought to have for the amount of money that we give it. It's not about the quality of their programming, it's about whether people should be forced to pay for it, even if they choose not to watch it.

why are you saying it's nearly £300 when it's half that? That's so weird and pointless!

Is it actually that you don't know how much it is? That is odd if you are in a strop about it!

I pay quarterly! Because ours got cancelled and 37.50 went out today for mine, also my sky 41.50 has gone out too.

As most households have Sky tv I think the customers who have sky should have a percentage of their bill go to paying bbc instead of a monthly fee to BBC! Not raising money but sky has more BBC channels than normal TV! All the radio channels BbC3 Bbc 2 bbc1 cbeebies, cbbc etc etc!!

Most have sky? Urm I'm not sure on that one. I know far more people without it than with it. And if most have sky (and can afford it) then surely they can affor dthe licence fee as well (or intsead of..)

MoaningLisa is that £41.20 for sky a month or also a quarter?

queenceleste that was a mistake ws apolologised for at the beginning, the real figure is about £3 a week which could mean a lot to poor people...so have I got you back on the right track (I am not a probation officer)

The BBC themslves should be trying to help poorer people. They wont do it by compulrily taking 3 quid a week off them.

I support the BBC; but they do need to COME INTO THE REAL world.

People like Paxman the Axeman. Mariella Frostrop[, Lovely Ann Robinson;
Feisty Victoria Derbyshire, Swim Fanatic Shelagh Fogarty, Even near to tears Nicky Campbell, Gabby Logan and her banker mates. But comedian Stewart Lee is ok, worth every penny.

I think the BBC is from a product of a different era, I can when TV was first developed why a Government broadcaster may be needed. However in the modern age there is no need for the Government to be running TV and radio channels. I would privatise the BBC and do away with the licence fee.

An interesting idea but it aint gonna happen in my lifetime. . I wish the BBC DG would have the courage to admit that they are paying top stars (with public money)

I agree that people on very low incomes should get it free.. but i still don't buy the argument that there are people out there with TV's who never watch it.

But having the BBC , and supporting it ( and channel 4 ) through licence fee is the right thing in my book. It means it's free from the influence and interuptions of advertisers and shareholders.

I'm of the opinion that having a means of accessing live transmissions is a necessity - weather warnings, public announcements, health scares etc. it's not like we'd get an air raid siren any more is it?

For that reason I'm against the tv licence (I have got one though) - and would rather we dropped the pretence of licence admit it's a tax and raise the VAT on the equipment. I'd even include batteries to ensure a regular revenue, but at least that would mean I'm not shelling out for services that I've got no desire to use (HD - couldn't give a monkeys red one) till I upgraded my own tv.

I don't want bloody Murdoch telling me what to think and do, or Fox. The nice thing about national broadcasters is the freedom from ads and brainwashing. And sporting events that seem to exclusively exist of overpaid men poncing after a ball in flappy shorts.

I bloody love the Daily Mail. It is great entertainment value.

I just listened to the chrysalids on iplayer while I was doing the ironing. In fact I had to go and find more ironing do I could listen to the end! That's got to be worth 145 pa. Recently I listened to I am legend, rendezvous with Rama, sherlock Holmes. It's bloody brilliant!

Mail wqriting good. attitude lousy especially to women and poor people