To think the TV License should be scrapped

[Hedgehogbrown]

Hear me out. I love the BBC, grew up on it, and want it preserved forever. The Television License is such an outdated and inefficient way to pay for the BBC though. Most young people don't have a TV, they have computers and they don't see why they should get a TV License, regardless of the law. They don't have a TV License. Most Millennials I know don't pay their TV License. When you are poor it is another stressful expense.

How much does it cost them to try to enforce? It seems so old fashioned and wasteful. In Australia they have a state run channel but it is paid for through general taxation. If the government grew some balls and taxed all the Tech Bros who are trying to destroy the world, they can ring fence some of that taxation for the BBC. The BBC is actually good at making money, it exports it's stuff around the world. Their profits can go to the Treasury. No more paying for people to go round in vans trying to catch people out for not having a license like it's the 1970s.

I think it would be such a vote winner for people to not have to pay this.

If people could opt in monthly for a BBC licence rather than having to pay for a full year then it would be better.
I see the licence as a subscription - just one that is a 12 month contract.
Perhaps that could change.

Complete waste of money! And when grandma moved in with us, and we’ve no tv, they still insisted she pay. Just ignored.
Dh goes out to watch his games. Otherwise, what on earth is it needed for?! Their journalism is complete rubbish

I think the BBC is unequalled anywhere in the world really.In Canada my SIL/BIL pays a small fee to watch it ,and very few of the shows over there match up.If you want an ad free service. there has to be a charge .At £10.00 for a basic Netflix plan, this is similar to BBC.We like this. but still seem to watch the Beeb a lot!

That's your opinion though many ,many people don't think the BBC is great and don't want your watch their content.

@dottiedodah the cheapest Netflix is £5.99 pm

That would be much better, it takes a very good show for me to subscribe say to Apple TV but I will for a couple of months if there’s a good one. I’d do the same if the BBC had something good.

The one I can think of that might have prompted me to opt in was Happy Valley. I haven’t watched the BBC for a while though.

Some countries have given up on tb licence and everyone has to pay for media tax. Write you own a tv/radio or not. Not sure of titbis good or bad, but at leas nobody has to invoice and check on tv licences.

Why should everybody pay for it and not just the ones using it?

Some people are just brainwashed and can't imagine life without the BBC. I remember knowing kids when I was young whose parents wouldn't let them watch ITV because it was "downmarket".