To think they should reduce the size of the BBC and cut the license fee?

[jobhunter7]

To think they should reduce the size of the BBC and cut the license fee?

Yes
Yabu

Which parts of the BBC would go then?

The TV has far too many channels now. The BBC should have just kept it as channels 1 and 2. ITV as channel 3, then keep channels 4 and 5.

applepineapple Tue 05-Jan-21 11:05:29
Which parts of the BBC would go then?

Local radio.

Which bits would you cut?

I think they should stick adverts on and stop charging people who dont watch BBC just for owning a TV and harassing anyone who doesn't pay. It's a disgusting business practise.

Mmm! WHich parts would go?

The World Service and all of that stuff you never listen to?

Channels you never watch?

Education services you don't access?

And again...stop charging people who dont watch BBC just for owning a TV and harassing anyone who doesn't pay. It's a disgusting business practise. the fee is not for watching BBC... honest!!!!

Which parts of the BBC would go then?
Asian Network, 1Xtra, local radio - all served by commercial stations.
Popular shows should be sold off to commercial broadcasters (Strictly Cunt Dancing, Mrs Brown's Fucking Boys, Mastershit) - anything that can stand on it's own two legs should be sold off.

The BBC should make shit that commercial broadcasters can't, or won't. Not chase ratings with the same shit that's on other channels.

Obviously it should continue to broadcast a 24 hour news channel and BBC Parliament, because no fucker would broadcast the latter and you can't have too many news channels (watch them all, take the average opinion, and you might be somewhere near the truth).

And for as long as the licence fee exists, it should permit users full access to the BBC's archive of programmes. Britbox is bullshit - we've already paid for the BBC shows - so as part of our subscription, we should be allowed to watch them when we want.

And for as long as the licence fee exists, it should permit users full access to the BBC's archive of programmes.

Well yes we've already paid for them...

Would you envisage it becoming more like PBS in America then?

Which parts of the BBC would go then?

Did you know the BBC pay a whole department to surf social media for bad publicity and pretend to be members of the public and counter any bad comments with praise for the organisation. Maybe that department could go!

It will cost them billions to make it a subscription service, which they are not prepared to do.

Also, if everyone cancelled their monthly direct debit and asked for their '6 months upfront' payment back it would bankrupt them

Content costs money to produce. Yabu.

We stopped paying our tv license. We don't watch bbc or any live TV. Husband wrote to inform then he will not watch BBC or live TV and no longer wants to fund the biased corporation.
They wrote a few letters, which were promptly filed in the bin.
I'm surprised people pay them still

What percentage of the population truly wish to be forced to watch sport, since B.B.C is offering no mainstream alternative?

(Even among extreme sport fans, what percentage don't already have pay to view channels for their specialist loves?)

What percentage of the population actively hate to see kindness and cooperation, and instead prefer antagonism, rivalry and competition in place of cooperation of any kind?

What percentage of the population positively support obscene salaries for staff or 'talent'?

What percentage of those who want to watch Attenborough or any other wildlife show actually hate to hear the silences and sounds of nature, and instead long for the producer's choice of muzac?

If radio is expensive to produce, it is being done wastefully.
If a t.v. channel is not interested in the customer, due to being divorced from reality, it will not and should not survive.

Yes and yes again. It’s become an enormous self serving Woke machine, mainly serving up trash for the masses! Apart from the odd good comedy, I’m thinking People Do Nothing and This Country and a couple of decent documentaries a year, they have produced almost nothing of value in the last 5 years.

@unmarkedbythat

well looking at the usa model - i actually think npr radio is pretty good... pbs seems a bit like our bbc4

And their news is as untrustworthy and biased as any other media outlet now. Possibly worse.

@MixingMusic

Yes and yes again. It’s become an enormous self serving Woke machine, mainly serving up trash for the masses! Apart from the odd good comedy, I’m thinking People Do Nothing and This Country and a couple of decent documentaries a year, they have produced almost nothing of value in the last 5 years.

Totally agree, eastenders being a prime example. Then look at the salaries of Gary Lineker and co, the bbc and its model has no place now. Threatening people with fines for not funding them, sky etc dont do that, so why do the BBC think its acceptable.

@jobhunter7 me too :)
There's been some good content on PBS over the years, this for example: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/two-american-families/

Nope. Very happy with the BBC and happy to pay for it

Which bits would you cut?

Massively trim the BBC website. News and sport only - not pages of articles on ‘Why making jerk chicken is cultural appropriation’ and ‘Is it ever okay to call an old woman old, or a woman?’

Does the BBC really need to bid for the TV rights to big blockbuster movies? Couldn’t these be the preserve of commercial channels?

Consolidate the radio services. Not everything needs to be 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Even repeating more pre-recorded shows in non-peak slots or sharing frequencies (for example, Radio 1 broadcasting Six Music content overnight) could save cash.

Yes Whammy, and EastEnders is actually really creepy these days. It’s so called ‘edgy’ stories are just dark dumbed-down shite. I felt like I needed a shower last time I saw it a year ago. Such trash on every level. Boris backed down from stopping making the bbc licence fee a criminal act. Or reforming it in any way. Which was spineless I thought.

@MixingMusic

Yes Whammy, and EastEnders is actually really creepy these days. It’s so called ‘edgy’ stories are just dark dumbed-down shite. I felt like I needed a shower last time I saw it a year ago. Such trash on every level. Boris backed down from stopping making the bbc licence fee a criminal act. Or reforming it in any way. Which was spineless I thought.

Eastenders is just awful tv.

The TV licencing website itself gives very clear instructions on how to stop paying and cancel this out of date system. Very easy to do. The more people that do might make them listen and move with the times.

Well said StillCoughing. Those articles are a good example though I’ve seen worse. “How to Masturbate” was one on the front page last about a year or so ago, I kid you not. I complained but they led me a merry dance and ignored it because I didn’t state more clearly what my problem was with this, and also I didn’t have the “URL” or whatever it’s called.

I’ve no respect for that organisation in any way shape or form. (Apart from as I said a couple of comedy series).

Yanbu. I cancelled my license years ago, I have no TV aerial, only Internet. I pay for Netflix, that's enough tv for me and much cheaper than the BBC