To say if you care about the future of the BBC, then please complete the public consultation survey by midnight tonight!

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I personally believe that the BBC is an incredible asset and should be protected at all costs.
I watch, listen and read a huge amount of content across TV, radio, and online services. Content that is often not available anywhere else. I am more than happy to pay my license fee.

If you have a spare 30 mins and want to have a say about the BBCs future, then the public consultation survey closes at midnight tonight (10 Mar).

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I remember when the BBC created all that wonderful, educational BBC bitesize content for our children over the covid lockdowns. It really helped us through it all. We certainly didn't see Netflix or Disney+ doing anything like that. That is what sets the BBC apart - we all pay for it and so it is a truly public service.

Thanks, done

Yes please everyone do this, whatever your views - virtually everyone has an opinion about the BBC so this is the time to have your voices heard.

It won’t come around again for 10 years, have your say, share on your socials too.

Done.

Not forgetting of course how the BBC has been instrumental in basically supporting paedophiles for years. Yay let’s all pay £150 a year to keep it!

I’ll never support a company that sends threatening letters for not using its service. The sooner it’s gone, the better.

The questionnaire gives you an opportunity to discuss BBC standards and yhe future of the license fee

I very seldom watch the bbc, yet have to pay a license fee because I watch live tv. Threatening letters and fines is not something that should be allowed.

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I’m happy to support the Beeb and pay for its services but I don’t think a model where everybody in the UK is forced to support it and pay for its services is fair or sustainable.

My thoughts exactly. I hope the bbc closes down

Nah. For reasons PPs mentioned

The BBC could have been a towering light in a world of misinformation, poor programmes, Facebook, Netflix etc. Instead it went down the same politicised path as every other institution in this country.

Best thing I ever did was cancel the TV licence.

If you like the BBC - great, all power to you. Including the power to fund it yourself.

Should we all pay for it though? I rarely watch live TV but I still have to pay for the odd times I do. I pay other subscriptions to be able to watch the content I enjoy on top of the licence fee.

The licence fee should be abolished and if necessary you can pay more to watch the content you enjoy.

Thank you - done.

I look forward to the day that it’s a premium
channel that you opt into like Sky Sports. I will pay to the best BBC drama content via other platforms like Netflix.

I also hope it closes down or changes to a subscription service like Netflix or Disney Plus. Nobody should have to pay for media content that they have no interest in watching, and the way the BBC is run is a disgrace.

I'll complete it but although I pay the licence fee as I watch it, think it's ridiculous people who never do should pay. More and more people are refusing to pay. BBC can't prosecute everyone! I'd pay a subscription.

I know this isn't the point of your thread, but just wanted to correct something you mentioned - bbc bitesize wasnt created for parents during covid.

Home ed families (and other kids supplementing their school work) have been using it for a couple of decades. It's a fantastic tool that has been around since the late 90s, certainly not quickly whipped up in an altruistic manner for parents during covid.

Ah, so if enough people complain about them harbouring paedos for a very long time - and there are many rumours about it going far deeper (to the present day) than 'just' Savile, Harris and all the rest - the BBC will throw up their hands and admit it all and promise to try to do better? They might even acknowledge that the Eric Gill statue really doesn't put them in a good light and cover it up too? Hmmm... I'm highly sceptical that public opinion will sway them from doing whatever they've already decided. They're very good at letting people have their say - and then just summarily ignoring it.

I agree with PP: in spite of the BBC's huge number of issues, it does make a lot of brilliant content (if you look past the propaganda). I would be happy to subscribe to it; but I very strongly object to the bullying, harassing way it goes about its business - terrifying and threatening people who don't use its services into paying them for fear of prosecution or other repercussions.

You compare it with Netflix and Disney+ - have you ever, ever been aware of a single occasion when Netflix or Disney have sent letters to everybody who doesn't subscribe to them, ordering them to pay them or potentially go to prison, with a tiny section at the bottom of the letter grudgingly acknowledging that, if you don't want to use their services, they can't technically make you pay?

Apart from anything else, it really is outrageous that you are currently forced to pay the BBC for the privilege of watching ITV or Channel 4, or indeed any other provider of live TV. Can you imagine for a moment Tesco being legally allowed to demand that you pay them an annual fee before you're allowed to go and do all of your shopping at Asda and never actually darken Tesco's doors?

Thank you - I have given my opinion, for what it's worth.

Sorry, yes you are right. But I'm pretty sure content was at least heavily promoted and the amount increased during covid? Either way, it's a fantastic resource!

I know the BBC is far from perfect. Because it is the biggest broadcaster with all the big programmes there is always a huge amount of publicity when things go wrong.
But I think if you talk to people who work at the BBC they will tell you that the BBC puts in a huge amount of effort into trying to remain impartial, truthful and, fair - despite things going wrong from time to time.

I don't want to imagine the hellscape that would remain if the BBC were to disappear. Wall to wall adverts, biased reporting, the agenda of the millionaire owners being pushed, programs which only appeal to the majority, nothing specialist, nothing local. Nothing you can be sure is even fact.

I think we need to understand and acknowledge that, whilst many people might dearly love something, other people may be totally uninterested or actually hate it.

It's bad enough when football bores ask strangers as soon as they meet them which team they support, before even knowing if that person actually cares about football in the first place. It's even worse during the World Cup, when they'll say open-mouthed "But of course you'd watch it if England [or another home nation] was in the final?!" and then totally disbelieve you when you say "No, because I have no interest in football".

Just as I don't want to pay towards somebody else's Chelsea season ticket, I also don't think it's fair for people who don't use the BBC's services to be forced to pay for me to do so.

I’ve done the survey but the questions are loaded towards the BBC.