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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Not interested in that programme.
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And I'm not interested in F1.
However, I don't happen to believe that the BBC should make 100% of programmes to suit my taste just because I pay a licence fee. Besides, my point was to address your claim that the BBC's documentaries are poor quality. Frozen Planet is most definitely of extremely high quality, whether you are personally interested in it or not.
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See people like me pay for the bbc, so people like you who like the channel get it subsidised.
As make no mistake if the bbc was voluntary subscription I wouldnt sign up.
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The BBC isn't 'the channel' - it is an organisation that puts out a great many TV and radio channels, plus online content. And I don't believe for one minute that you don't consume any of it.
Many people wouldn't pay a voluntary subscription for the BBC. Big deal. Many people don't pay for Sky or VM - almost half the households in the UK don't pay subscriptions for their TV. There's no surprise in that, it is widely known and understood.
The reasons why the UK retains a licence fee are also widely known and understood and have been gone over a great many times on this forum. The fee guarantees the existence of a broadcaster that is free to serve all sections of society, to experiment with new formats and production companies, and to make high-quality material even in times when the economy is poor. In the absence of a fee, the BBC would rely on free-to-air advertising just as ITV does, causing massive market distortion as the same pool of advertising money was spread across the BBC's channels as well as the existing commercial ones.
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The fact is most of the programmes on the bbc, in fact the vast majority dont interest me.
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But some of them do. And that's the point. I'd be more surprised if someone claimed that everything (or even most things) on BBCs 1-4, plus Parliament, News, CBBC and Cbeebies did interest them.
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Regarding the salaries thats up to you, obviously it suits your argument to conveniantly not bother to check it out.
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Chrys, at the risk of repeating myself, if you bring 'facts' to an argument it's up to you to back them up, it's not up to me to prove your arguments for you.
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There was also a recent news article about alen hansen getting paid 40k an episode of match of the day.
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Nice. Linkage? Go on, it's not hard. Try it. You might actually get people to agree with you on something for a change.