BBC wants to increase licence fee
The Director General of the BBC is trying to make a case for an increase to the licence fee. This, I think, is the wrong approach.
What the DG should be doing is making a case for the licence fee to be scrapped, with a subscription at the existing rate maintained for its existing TV and radio channels and the i-Player. Then it should make a case to the Government to provide additional premium material at an additional cost, either with one or more premium channels broadcast by traditional linear means and/or by the establishment of a new streaming service. That would be a much better solution than just putting up the outdated licence fee that poorer members of society would find difficult to pay. https://www.rapidtvnews.com/20180918...#axzz5RTMUzQGs |
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This isn't really Virgin Media news as it would be relevant to all TV platforms in the UK.
The problem with the subscription option for the BBC is that to that you'll then have to put the BBC content behind some form of broadcast restriction for it to work. I wouldn't even know how you'd do that for radio. So potentially you could end up with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 on Freeview, but the BBC channels not. So to turn the BBC into a subscription service would require a complete rethink of the PSB channels in the UK, what is 'free to view' and how. It's also not only the BBC that gets funding from the licence fee - S4C is due to get all of it's funding from it shortly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-43569372 |
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Sorry to post this in the wrong place. If the moderators would transfer this to current affairs, I would appreciate it.
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The fee was frozen for years. Then the Govt. made the BBC pay for the rich Tory pensioners licences - instead it needs to be free/subsidised for those on Income Support. Scrap the fee and it would just become another commercial channel producing little new or original. At £12 a month for mostly original content its a bargain, compared to VM/Sky subscriptions. I would gladly sell my kidneys to save the BBC (well maybe just the one ;)) |
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I don't see the point of spending £12pm for something I never watch. I don't mind paying a subscription for something I do or will watch.
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If I could opt-out of paying for the Tory supporting news I'd jump at the chance.
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I am not suggesting the BBC should show commercials. I said the licence fee should be scrapped in favour of a subscription at the same price, and the income should be topped up and the current level surpassed with a premium channel and/or streaming services for a separate additional subscription. Your kidneys are safe with me. :D ---------- Post added at 18:48 ---------- Previous post was at 18:46 ---------- Quote:
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We have been told that in the medium term, all the terrestrial TV channels will be delivered over the internet - you will no longer be able to receive channels through an aerial. I presume that radio will go the same way, and therefore it will be possible to block TV and radio stations from non-subscribers. If the Government of the day wants to pay any broadcaster to schedule in public service broadcasting, it would still be able to pay them for doing so. So S4C and local programming would still be safe. |
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Drop the endless quizes and then strictly, then make a decent drama.
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I think the license only exists so that people lean more toward watching the BBC and therefore whatever "thought for the day" is being pushed on there by its owners, who have an artificial monopoly on the imposition of national public opinion.
People think "well, since I'm paying for it, I might as well watch it".... |
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The reason why the TVL was set up in the way it is was to ensure that the BBC remained independent from the Government of the day. Shifting the cost of paying for the free TV licences for the over 75's from the DWP to the BBC was a sly move as the BBC will get the blame for any cutbacks. It's the same principle as them cutting the Revenue Support Grants to local authorities, it's the councils who then get the blame when Council Tax Bills increase whilst services are reduced. Having said that, I do think that the free TV licence schemes should be reformed. It's ridiculous that a millionaire pensioner doesn't pay whilst a younger person on benefits has to, or that a working family on decent wages can stick the TVL into an elderly persons name who lives with them so that they can all enjoy the benefit of a free TVL. |
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We agree that reform is necessary. This should be done in a measured way, ensuring that the BBC was still able to raise the value of the licence fee by way of the basic subscription and had the flexibility to top it up as they saw fit with premium programming. |
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