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.

Ok, DS is looking over my shoulder (nosy parker) and has asked me to tell you all that he and his sister DO NOT watch Cbeebies. They watch CbbC as they are aged 11 and 8 and Cbeebies is for babies dontcha know...

So here it is, my correction. After all I have to spare the dc the embarassement of the whole world knowing they watch a baby channel. Never mind the fact MN is anonymous and no one will know my dc in real life.

Sigh.

(but they don't really watch cbeebies, it was a typo by me)

There ds, is that better?

CLAIG..Have you paid your TV license fee. If not sign that £145 cheque this minute. The license men may be knocking on your door.

why oh why do i read scousy's posts? Annoying, stupid, ill informed conspiracy theories.

If you don't want to pay or can't afford to pay, don't have a fucking television. They are not a "necessity"

Well scousy we are not flush far from it, having a tv licence certainly isn't a middle class thing, or you stuck in a class war?

FGS this sort of thread is why the media think we're all mad over here

The BBC is a jewel and I don't resent a penny of my TV licence fee.

Incidentally, the black-and-white fee is much cheaper.

The colour fee is around £145, but the black-and-white fee is only £49.

At one point, we had a black-and-white tv because it was cheaper.

scousy is one man against the world. katvond

In his little bedsit, writing his little letters. Starting his threads.

In FACt wHY Not MAkE evRYthinG Free. PayinG for THiNgs we USe is ReaLLy AnnoYing.

The BBC is tremendously good value for what it is. And as has been said, it's not compulsory. You don't have to have a TV.

Scousy, I have paid. But agree with you, that it needs to be looked at in the modern competitive world. It is a subsidy that can be seen as anti-competitive.

i love the bbc!

WASSA not having a TV makes you an interesting rarity....You probably dont register in the statistics. DID YOU GO next door to watch the royal wedding and Man Us humilitation?

I would pay for radio 4 alone. I cannot live without it.

oh christ are you starting on football now scousy?

I watched the royal wedding at my parents', who have a TV (and a licence).

What's wrong with that?

They will never scrap the licence fee. It won't happen. I will gladly pay for it as we like watching telly. To all those that grumble about it, get rid of you TV then.

Rhina If David Camerooney was to say about the £3 a week license fee, "YOU DONT HAVE TO HAVE A TV" (all hell would break loose around his Tory rag-bag government.

No, no, I have a TV now. Got set up last year, so we could watch Doctor Who at home with the baby, instead of visiting parents-in-law.

I think it's fantastic value for money, and if you didn't have public service broadcasting a lot of the programmes that have gone on to be big successes (for example, The Office) would not have had a second series made as they didn't pull big viewing audiences on their first series and advertisers would have pulled the plug. There are also all the added extras such as the BBC News website, World service, Radio Stations etc. The licence fee has also been frozen for six years at £145 so it won't be going up at all - unlike Sky etc.

I love the BBC to and would fight tooth and nail to stop adverts being shown on it. BBC is admired the world over for its journalistic skills and I think we don't always realise that. I would hate it to join the ranks of Sky etc

at people who don't have a tv needing to go and watch the royal Wedding or football.

is it beyond comprehension that some people are just Not Bothered by any of it?

the reliance on tv as entertainment in our society is really quite worrying, tbh.

ScousyFogarty... Do you ever come on AIBU just to have a 'chat'? I ask because you're about the only poster whose threads I swerve because of the constant, samey agenda. I realise that I've posted on this one. I just wanted to ask why you have this obsession with Victoria whatever...

Sorry, but to me you come across as some scummy 'journo' and it grates...

[puts on tin hat and climbs under table gibbering 'Three hundred pooooounds']

I resent paying it. Are they not now doing product placement as well which makes it even worse. May be wrong though

The licence fee is an absolute bargain and a good idea to boot.
I remember Jeremy Clarkson telling a tale about the good old days when they used to do sensible car reviews instead of silly pranks. They slagged off some French car and the boss of the company phoned up, apopletic, saying "get that review rescinded or I WILL PULL ALL ADVERTISING REVENUE". Someone gleefully told him that the BBC don't rely on advertising so they were able to do impartial reporting and there wasn't a thing he could do about it.
Do the commercial channels run anything like Watchdog?