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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
You're SO wrong, I only watch those BBC produced programmes on a commercial channel that the BBC gets the advertising revenue for, thus I am paying for what I WANT to watch rather than being forced to pay for the rest of the trash output.
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So it's basically that you only want the BBC to produce stuff you want to watch and everyone else can get lost?
The BBC has produced those programmes and they've become popular, they are then sold onto commercial broadcasters. The demand was created by the BBC in the first place as they produced these programmes, showed them and they were popular. Left to the commercial broadcasters you wouldn't get those shows produced, you'd get ITV.
You're also paying and asking people who don't own a TV to pay for programmes you don't watch through the extra cost that's added to the cost of items you buy in the shops, is that fair?
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If the liberated BBC poll tax cash goes to the commercial channels in the form of advertising revenue or subscriptions I'll be ecstatic.
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You can still vote if you don't pay your licence fee and if what you say came to pass the commercial broadcasters would have nothing to compete with in terms of raising the quality bar and you'd get wall to wall lowest common dominator TV that panders to the greatest number of people.