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Originally Posted by foreverwar
BBC programmes are free-to-air; it is not part of the cost you pay for Cable or Sky, so you are not "paying twice".
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I think you missed the point you are paying twice for your television enjoyment. The beeb only get a proportion of the licence fee its called a license its not soley to pay for beeb programming. The government get is cake and try using tv's without one you will get fined. So its nothing to do with what is provided by the beeb. Now when you also pay for tv via a provider you are then paying twice. As most content ends up on retro channels like uk gold in some ways you proportionally pay a small fee for them made too. The beeb end up get a small proportion of subscriber fees and any advertising revenue to subliment the lisence. You also wonder how much the beeb got out of freeview box sales and impending freesat.
You realise for doing what the government requested you are not getting an incentive. Its about time we got a significant reduction to the licence.