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Originally Posted by Sirius
If the BBC think there product is so good then issue cards to everyone for the freeview boxes and make the BBC a subscription service to the same amount as the licence fee. That way you have the CHOICE if you want to watch the BBC then pay your subscription if you dont then you dont pay and dont watch. This will remove the other argument that they should go to a advert based system.
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They would still have to attract new subscribers, though. And they could only do that by producing only the most-popular stuff. So there goes BBC4, for example.
So no, neither subscription nor advertising will allow the BBC to continue in it's current remit.
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Originally Posted by Osem
Look guys. If everyone who doesn't use the service refuses to pay for the Beeb they won't have enough money for such essentials as..
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Yes yes. We can all cherry-pick the one or two things we might not entirely agree with. But two out of three of those are
very old news; and the other has been explained for you.
And, of course, the BBC does a whole lot more than that!
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
And with much more eloquency here
The site that TVL tried so many dirty tricks to take down.
The truth is out there, read it Carl. Might open your eyes. |
Oh please
So the system isn't perfect. No-one's ever said it is. So some people like to be damned-awkward just because they can. I have an idea. If people can't co-operate on a voluntary basis, then let's make co-operation with TVL compulsory by law.
Some people advocate a change to paying the TVL through General Taxation. Great. Okay. Then even those without a TV will be paying for it.