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Originally Posted by Mr K
Well if you could miss those 12 hours TV a month, you wouldn't need to pay a licence fee. ?
As mentioned the BBC isn't just TV; and a lot of paid for cable channels are repeating BBC output. If nothing new is made we'd soon get bored. There's some great new drama this Christmas, and it's mostly on the BBC. Every other channel is 95% repeats.
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There's talk of a digital license where a little thing like not having a telly won't protect you from having to pay that notwithstanding I'm not getting value and neither are many, many others and whilst we are at it why are we subsidising mps tv viewing
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Originally Posted by Damien
I don't actually know the numbers but quite a few people do listen to BBC Local Radio. It's an underappreciated part of the BBC's output since it's often where the public service aspect is strong, covering local stories and events which would otherwise go ignored by a wider population. I think this is more pronounced outside of London where the media tends to have less of a natural interest.
And yes they do tend to do a lot of unique content. Here is Cumbria's schedule: https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl79#on-now
Most of it is live and unique other than the early hours where they fall back to Radio 5 Live.
This is in contrast to the media landscape in the United States where theoretically there would be larger audiences for local content but in reality most local stations are owned by major media companies and play syndicated national radio shows to save money. |
It's literally a few people listening and falling all the time