TV License. AIBU to think it should be pay per view?

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Before I get flamed I pay my license. Always have. However, I rarely watch TV, probably about 15 times a year. I watch things on Amazon though. WIBU to think it would be much fairer to divide the fee by 365 and pay for the days you actually watch?

Amazon does this, but quite expensive and on a delay. Season 6 of The Walking dead, for example, is £29 on Amazon today, even for subscribers to Prime.
Just under £2 an hour - so £145 for TV licence is 70 hours of programmes that are 6 months old.

There is one BBC program I could give a shit about and I'd pay per view for that. Other than that I don't really bother with TV and as such I don't have a licence. I have an Internet/phone connection, and Amazon prime. Can be bothered paying through the nose for a live TV package and a licence fee on top of that.

PPV would be perfect. However much a licence is a year not so much. It's not as if there's lots of quality TV on the BBC nowadays.

I don't have much choice about paying for all the commercial channels regardless of if I watch them. If people were able to put out of the licence fee, could I have a discount on my shopping?

If this were implemented, only very popular shows would get made. It would be bad for everyone IMO.

For the new programs to be made money needs to be made.

Having said that I also realise there is loads of shit on too!

YANBU, it's a stealth tax, it's immoral & should be axed.

Enough people stopped paying in NZ & it was axed. The BBC is rancid

All the people that don't watch tv - what do you do at night time ? Just curious not being cheeky ? 😀

I just cannot see why a commercial/financial model needs to be applied to a service (and it is!) that is held in high esteem.

It is just such a small amount we pay to ensure we get a news service, tv and radio service that is the envy of the world and not having to chase revenue or advertising bucks ...

also, it isn't like the pay to view fee covers anything like the costs to produce programmes and the founding principle of the BBC is to cover just the sort of events and things that are not commercially viable.

I'd rather the BBC start introducing adverts.

Not physically possible. And if it were it would be horribly intrusive.

Radio in particular - how are you gong to tell who is picking up the (analogue) FM signal?

It's the least worst system yet devised.

I thougth the license fee paid towards the transmitters that allow all TV to be broadcast, not just BBC channels?

I think BBC sport on radio and TV is worth the license fee alone.

TheNaze have you watched NZ tv?! I lived there for 3 years (having moved from a non-English speaking country so being pretty desperate for English-speaking tv). I don't think I watched any locally made tv programmes more than once. I tuned in to a current affairs programme once and had to double check that it wasn't a spoof.

NZ is brilliant at many things, I wouldn't consider tv to be one of them. I'm not sure they are a model to follow

I box set Amazon or Netflix.
Watch OD or films.
It's cut out loads of crap One Show that I accidentally watched by taking the ariel out.
I'm much more selective now.
And I read again!

Biffsboys

All the people that don't watch tv - what do you do at night time ? Just curious not being cheeky ? 😀

Gym, cook dinner, clean, have a bath, play with the cats... By which point there isn't that much time left for TV, and then I may as well watch something on Netflix/Amazon Prime or something similar.

I'd rather they were a commercial station. I don't watch live tv at all at home anymore. I do watch player occasionally but more a Netflix, Amazon and YouTube viewer.

So those watching netflix/amazon are happy with the subscription model, but want a choice of whether to subscribe?

I was out there in 94-95 vviola and agree it wasn't the best

The BBC though, even if it only cost 10p, we're forced to pay it. How can that be right? So if you want to watch Netflix, Sky Atlantic or Sky Movies you have to fund the bloated BBC, it's criminal. Why do we as a country stand for this??

And a news service the envy of the world?? Really??

Subscription or advertising has to be the only legitimate way forward surely?

I watch Sherlock and listen to 6 music. That's pretty much all the BBC offers me. I don't mind paying the licence fee though.

I would happily pay for an international licence (at a much higher rate than domestic). As it is, there are so many ways around geographical blocking online that they are just kissing the opportunity to make money from direct sales

*missing

I will happily pay my entire licence fee just for Radio 4.

Actually, sod that. I will happily pay my entire licence fee just for the rare occasion I hear Neil Nunes doing the Shipping Forecast just before bed.

Absolutely! The world's best cure for insomnia in the most soothing way imaginable. Like being cuddled to sleep in a warm blanket. Personally, I'd have it broadcasted hourly from 10pm. Now that would be worth the fee.

I'd quite happily pay for an international licence. I laughed when I read that the BBC think you can't watch iPlayer abroad.

Oh yes you can ..

That's why I won't bother come September. The last time I watched BBC I player was last bake off. They need to sort it out so I can sign up for months I use the service, like every other provider out there. As it is, I will just skip bake off this year.