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.

scousy, Do you pay for any kind of digital/cable TV?

I don't think the BBC is as good as it used to be.

I thought both the Champions League final and the Imminent Lizard Invasion ahem The Wedding were available on ITV actually. [gets under table with pannda and renames it pedants table]

Oh, by the way, despite having a licensed television, I did not watch Manchester United. In fact, didn't even know they'd lost an important match.

Because I support my local League Two team, rather than whatever Premiership team is winning. As you were, everyone.

PIG PIG...you dont think publicising books written bt millionaires is ADVERTISING what a funny dictionary you have

The people you see on mega-buck salaries are not typical of the organisation. The majority of people making the programmes (radio and tv) are on distictly average salaries and facing redundancy rounds at the moment.

Don't you also need a TV licence if you buy a mobile on which you watch live streaming events from other broadcasters?

?????? wtf ??????

The BBC could definitely do with some trimming back and no doubt the License fee could be reduced a fair bit too but to scrap it would be a mistake imo.

Public service broadcasting is really the only thing stopping british telly turning into Australian or (even worse) Italian style programming and ensures we're not left with 100 crappy versions of ITV.

BBC and Channel 4 (both public service broadcasters) news and current affairs programming is heads and shoulders above any other channels, and there really is no decent non BBC equivalent to Question Time or the Today program or In our time etc etc.

Not sure I'd like to see a media landscape where there was a race to the bottom chasing their share of already dwindling advertising money (which is already hurting commercial stations and would be made a lot worse by the BBC entering the market). I do think as a country we' be culturally poorer if the BBC was to become solely reliant on advertising for it's funding.

Then if you resent paying it then don't, get rid of you TV they don't make you pay for it. Your paying to use a service.

and possibly even for PCs on which you watch live streaming events from other broadcasters such as Sky?

any live streaming requires a licence, claig

Chen23.. well argued but it needs something more radical Lets have some ideas for Beeb not taxing poor people.

however claig your phone will be covered by your house TV licence, as its not per TV, if for you personally and all your equipment

I believe the BBC puts out a great range of brilliant programmes (some excellant dramas, documentaries, comedy, news output as well as kid's shows and entertainment and outstanding radio). I am more than happy to pay my licence fee.

I think we're incredibly lucky to have a non commercial, independant organisation with such a varied and unbiased out put.

Yes, some of their shows are absolute SHIT (caught the end of Life of Riley.. all I can say is good GOD), but everything appeals to SOMEONE doesn't it.

Suck it up people.

The product placement is still banned on the BBC.

Toygirl product placement isnt allowed in BBC licence funded shows.

katvond The licence fee doesn't fund ITV or Sky, only the BBC. Why should people have to get rid of all tv just to avoid supporting the BBC?

It is morally wrong to tax people for owning a TV

Next scousy you'll be wanting free broadband as the contents on the Internet are shite. That includes MNers as they won't agree with you ;)

I don't see what the problem is. When I lived in Germany in the 80s you had to pay a licence fee. Each adult in the household had to pay a fee, it didn't cover the whole household. I think those who want to get rid of it are deluded if they think it means they won't have to pay a fee. They will, it will just go into the big pot of government taxes.

the bbc are not taxing poor people, scousy, they are providing a service, which the people are using, and paying for as they use it.

Is Tesco taxing the poor by selling chocolate to poor people?

yes, so people who don't have a TV, but watch Sky News live on their mobiles, do need a licence, which pays for the BBC. It seems strange, a bit socialist.

It is morally wrong to tax people for owning a TV

how funny. How, pray tell, is it morally wrong to charge people for a service which they use?

rofl

presumably claig they also have the ability to watch bbc on their mobiles?

Because karma that's what we have to do. I rarely watch BBC but I don't bitch about it. We usually watch everything on sky. But we know to watch sky and all the other channels we have to pay for a licence. Simples :)

If I can grasp the fact before having any caffine in me I'm sure you can