Thread: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Old 23-09-2018, 15:28   #54
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
Because we'll have nothing but 'reality tv', and trash import soaps. Quality drama and programmes like 'The Sky at Night' just wouldn't get made.
If pay tv provided only reality tv, they would soon find that people were less likely to pay a subscription to watch it. I most certainly would not and in fact I find myself revisiting the value of pay tv more and more frequently these days.

Your argument falls really because we have no public service streaming operator, and yet the two big commercial services (Netflix and Amazon Prime) are providing many, many hours of quality programming without any real BBC competition. That is the future, and frankly, the Beeb will struggle to keep up.

The argument for having a public service broadcaster will diminish substantially as this transformation takes place and the broadcast scheduled TV channels close down.
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