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Originally Posted by Action Jackson
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ITV is for people who have lost the will to live and Channel 5 is a painful repressed memory that I wished that you hadn't brought up (in my world it doesn't exist).
Extra funding for Channel 4 would be nice though, although Channel 4 manages to create quality output and still be completely self sufficient.
Point is, we should have a choice as to what we want to watch and therefore pay for. Not have some license fee foisted onto us, simply because 'that's the way it's always been'.
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I think you can't have read my previous posts. The licence fee doesn't exist simply because it always has. The BBC's charter, and therefore the licence fee, is subject to renewal by Parliament every 10 years or so. Each renewal follows a detailed analysis of whether the British TV industry still has a place for public service broadcasting finded by compulsory levy. So far, the answer has always been 'it still does', not 'it always has'.
You are also ignoring the point that the licence fee is not a subscription. If you genuinely want to argue a case for its abolition, you are going to have to make a case against what it actually is, and what it actually stands for, and not simply rail against a straw man of your own invention. It's easy to knock down your own parody of something but ultimately it's not going to get you anywhere, and in this case it's not going to save you your £2.50.