[york]

I am a long time disgruntled payer of the unfair, biased and quite frankly appaulling attitude of the BBC and thier 'licence'.

You know YOU have to prove to THEM that your not using your TV to recieve broadcasted channels?
If you murder someone THEY have to prove that YOU committed the murder.

You HAVE to let them into your own home so they can see for themselves that you are not using a TV to recieve broadcasted channels.

If you refuse they call the police who then MAKE you let them into your home to prove that you are not using a TV to recieve broadcasted channels.

This attitude they have is appauling, i remember 3 years ago seeing an advert on the side of a bus in Doncaster, it said '3 people living on burton road do not own a TV licence'.

And Chris T, i 'dont use' your car, should i have to pay for it?

The BBC do not provide ANY content that interests me, NONE! You say they have set the standard? reeeallly? thats because they were the only ones setting any standard when the draconian licence fee was introduced.

In a recent BBC poll (yes thats right a poll by the BBC) to find out how many licence fee payers would continue to pay for the licence if it was based upon a subscription, the result was 65% would still pay the fee, that 35% of almost this entire country that do not want the BBC service.

The BBC is on borrowed time, my generation have grown up with the era of commercial TV, now ondemand is getting more popular, websites like youtube.com and other similiar providers are becoming more popular through convenience and instant choice, soon my generation will be in charge of things at the top and the BBC will find themselves without any support due to thier mightier than thou attitude.

I will be throwing a party on that day in support of choice and freedom.

If the BBC believe they are providing a world class service then they should put it to the test and become a subscription based service and if they were responcible with the money they recieve they would not be spending millions of pounds on changing thier logo (if i remember rightly they changed thier black BBC logo to a coloured BBC logo with a line underneath, then they changed it back) or spending millions of pounds paying for taxi's for thier staff.

Oh and this dribble about how TV would be so much worse without the BBC ... we will never know, cos the BBC were the only service available and quite frankly if everyone was on an level playing field, us the customer would be able to CHOOSE the best of the TV services available, like Sky or Virgin who both provide services that I want, not what im MADE to have or pay for.