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Originally Posted by thenry
Why doesn't installing receiving equipment come with a warning  |
I remember that when I bought one in Argos they wanted my address to pass it on to tv licensing, guess buying on line stops the need.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
That’s just your view. A growing number of people are ditching the TV licence because they are objecting to paying for a service they don’t use.
There are those who are starry eyed about the Beeb, simply because it's been there since TV in this country started. The reason you don’t want to see payments by voluntary subscription is that you know very well that many would choose not to pay it.
The point you raise about private ownership is easily negated by keeping the BBC as a public body, but ensuring that it operates within the money it earns from subscriptions and from making its programmes available to other providers after one year or two of broadcast. That way it will keep to the standards set by the government because it is not a private company.
Itis inherently unfair to expect people to pay compulsorily for an entertainment and news service they don’t want.
Their public service remit could be preserved by government funding for programmes they want broadcast which otherwise would not be commercially viable. That could be available also to the other ‘designated public service’ broadcasters and funded by taxation - a more sensible use of public money.
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Or they could survive on advertising ,guess the model might work . On Itv channels 4 and 5 etc it seems to work