To not mind paying the TV licence fee?

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There's been quite a lot of good TV over the 4 BBC channels and I relish a film on BBC without ads. Per day it isn't much too pay and I'd rather pay the BBC than Sky. Am I alone?

I can't get too worked up about it. Imo, it is worth it for cbeebies alone!

If you have Sky, don't you have to pay for a licence on top?
I've never had Sky so can't comment, but I certainly don't mind paying a licence fee

rather have the ads .

Oh yes how could I forget CBeebies! And also CBBC. Ad-free wins every time.

YANBU.

CBeebies and the BBC website make it worth every penny, IMO.

I don't pay it because we don't have TV hooked up, but I do watch BBC shows on iplayer and listen to BBC radio and would quite happily pay it for those reasons. So no YANBU! Can understand why it annoys people who only want to watch ITV/C4/5 though.

No I don't mind.

I think it's very good value for money especially The Musketeers The only issue I have with TV licensing continues to be the heavy handed tactics of the agency who collect it.

Absolutely YANBU! CBeebies alone is worth it IMO.... :) and wouldn't be without radio 2 & news 24 (even though lots of it winds me up something terrible!!)

YABVU - I massively object to paying for people like Jimmy Saville.

Oh it's worth it (to me anyway), all that ad free TV, the radio stations, the news site and all the technical discoveries that have fed into all the recent digital innovation. The amount of stuff that gets sold overseas means it is kept as low as it is so a real bargain.

I understand it's not quite the same bargain for people living alone/couples though.

The problem with the BBC is that although it should be free of commercial pressure to chase ratings and therefore able make better quality programmes, it chases ratings anyway and pumps out shite like "the voice" and strictly to compete with the same genre of crap that other channels make. I also think it tries to do too much, it doesn't need 6 million channels and radio stations.

Worth every penny just to keep on pissing off Murdoch.

Sorry you abominable archaic antediluvian antipodean, but your biased infotainment will not dominate this country without a fight!

I'd rather have the adverts. I resent paying the licence, I don't watch/listen to anything that it is used for. I think you should be able to scramble the content and only those that use it pay for it.

YANBU.

It's worth it for the website alone, my children have been using it to help with schoolwork for years.

I agree it tries to hard with shite like The Voice and Strictly, and many of their presenters make me want to rip my own foot off so that I have something to throw at the telly. But I do like a bit of BBC world when I go on holiday.

YANBU, I love Radio 4 especially - but as others have said I wish they would stop chasing the ratings with crappy TV shows

I resent paying because we have no choice of turning off BBc from our TV channels. So if you have a TV capable of watching BBC, even if you only watch ITV/C4/C5, you still have to pay for BBC which seems wrong to me. I also feel a little peed off lining the pockets of those vastly overpaid celebs even though I never what their crap programmes. However, I do like Radio6

DameDeep YY re the agency. They will send a letter threatening court before checking whether you actually have TV or not. They are incredibly aggressive and rude.

I don't pay it because we don't have TV hooked up, but I do watch BBC shows on iplayer

If you watch TV on a mother device you are meant to pay for a TV licence.

*another not mother! Obviously...

Worth it for radio 4 alone. All the other good stuff (Sherlock, Only Connect, Pointless) is a bonus.

Not if it's not live Cantaloupe.

If you watch TV on a mother device you are meant to pay for a TV licence.

No, you're not. Only if you watch it live. If you watch TV via catch-up, you don't have to pay anything.

I live alone and it is a total bargain, purely for Dr Who, Bakeoff and Apprentice!

I would happily pay double the fee just for BBC1 and the high quality of their shows, in particular 'Eastenders' - the quality, the verisimilitide!! in fact i regularly send in an extra tenner to say 'thank you BBC for all you have done for us!!!