the BBC isn't it time we just got shot of it?

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it's very middle class blue peter biased in my view

not to mention the cover ups of late

i know that the majority wouldn't agree but a subscription service for radio 4 etc would ensure that's continuity

The BBC is ok. The licence fee is minuscule. They could get rid of Jeremy Clarkson, though.

Yes, we should get shot of it. They think far too much of themselves. The cover ups have appalled and sickened me. People keep going on about it happening years ago and times have changed, but I don't buy that. I think they're a bunch of fuckers and I begrudge every penny of the licence fee. We hardly watch the damn thing as it is, and hardly ever watch the BBC anyway.

How could they fund the quality output with a subscription service?

Their bias is shocking

Most of the programmes I like to watch are on the BBC so YABVU.

YABU in my opinion, the beeb is just about the only channel i watch - do you really want an end to reasonable dramas and decent programming in favour of X factor and im a celeb? because i dont.
i never watch itv. rarely watch ch 4 these days either.
i watch alot of bbc 1, 2, 3 and 4.

i do not want rid of it and i think the government has just been waiting for an excuse to get rid tbh.

i want quality programming. not shit reality tv thats churned out endlessly on the other channels.

Dunno about the whole BBC but can we at least dump Steve Wright? He is so goddam smug and incessantly talks over the music. If he had been within reaching distance last week when he talked over Nirvana's Lithium I would have throttled him!

...and breathe...

No, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. They stuffed up but it's not like they've even come close to a Murdoch style brushing under the carpet and they are the ones who will benefit if the BBC gets closed. I shudder at the thought of that already near-monopoly controlling more of our screens.

The BBC is amazing and so much more than the sum of the saville story that is being very obviously exploited by the Murdoch media.

Getting rid of the BBC would be getting rid of the baby with the bathwater IMHO.

Winston Churchill said ?It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.? I reckon that the BBC is the worst broadcaster except all the others.

YABVVVU.

What are people watching on the bbc then? I can't find anything worth watching I catch Holby City once a week and that's it.

I watch a lot of the BBC, and their world service in countries that are unable to access anything else is a service that can change lives.
I feel they're well balanced in their news reports, though the whole Jimmy Savile thing and the cover up has shocked me.
But then again, where were the Sun, The Mail, ITV, and Channel 4, nobody did anything.
And yes I like shite telly, I watch X Factor and I'm a Celebrity, but I trust the BBC, they're like a comfort blanket.

The idea of a compulsory licence fee is antiquated, in my opinion, a relic of a time when there were only a couple of channels to watch. I can't see it is so much better than anyone else that we have to pay for it. And the licence fee is most certainly not miniscule! It's a lot of money if you're only on a very average wage.

I agree, OP. It's had its day. Make them advertise/ get subscribers like everyone else.

I agree. Get rid of public funding for BBC. It is obsolete and has mediocre programming.

I watched the US election coverage on BBC and Sky News. On BBC, they had an old fat guy with some boring guests and a rambling commentary. On Sky they had interesting interviews with people in the ground and iinformative statistics in the screen on voter demographics etc. BBC seemed so 1990s in their coverage style.

Plus I find a lot of their documentaries of very average quality. Not surprising as their production budgets are slashed while useless management line their pockets with our money.

I would willingly pay for Radio 4, though.

On the ground

God no. They have their problems but they are still world class broadcasters.

Whenever I come back from places like the US or Australia I am always so glad we have the BBC

Radio 4 is the only half decent thing they churn out, the rest is utter cack. They've become complacent and arrogant. Get rid of them, they suck.

Yes, they need a shake up. You're generally only allowed to be on tv as a female if you're young and decorative. It's part of the old boy's network. And can I nominate Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy Clarkson, John Humphries and Johnathan Ross to be first to go. Their arrogant and insensitive posturing makes me fume.

Ahhhh, thanks. I feel better now

BBC programmes that I have enjoyed/am enjoying:

The Great British Bake off
The Paradise
Inspector Montalbano
The Killing
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Brazil
QI
Mock the Week
Have I got New For You
Great Continental Railway Journeys
Various cookery shows

Newsnight
Question Time
EastEnders
Strictly
the recent Jimmy McGovern series of dramas
Good Cop

I love Paxman and Humphries! Clarkson should be shot at dawn isn't worth a damn, and hasn't Ross already gone to commercial TV?

I never appreciated the BBC until I lived outside the UK.

It is brilliant. I never want it to go. YABVU

Bun, which of these programmes are of compelling Public Interest that they need to be funded by taxpayers?

Ha, ha, they got rid of Angus Deaton on HIGNFY for snorting a bit of coke and there was JS and his cronies raping and abusing vulnerable people like that and nobody batted an eyelid

Fuckers

and that bloody dancing programme they have on with that dreadful fossil presenting it............'orrible.