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Originally Posted by scastle
I say keep the licence fee. The whole industry needs it. People have held up Channel 4 as an example of good programming. It is, but it is partially funded by advertising and partially funded by the licence fee.
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I think you should re-check that.
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As I stated earlier, I think making the BBC a commercial entity will cause massive problems for the existing commercial channels (several, including Channels 4, 5 and ITV would possibly fold).
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The same way they have folded die to the influx of all the sattelite channels?
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It's basic economics that the more suppy you introduce into a market, the lower prices for that supply go. Commercialising the BBC would introduce a massive supply of advertising space into an already over saturated market.
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Well in that case they'd have to get use to the real world then.
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Apart from anything else, if you have watched any TV or listened to any radio station in this country, you have either directly or indirectly benefitted from the BBC. Whether they provided services for production, trained the technicians or developed the technology involved.
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This has been said before - so what. If the BBC didn't exist the technicians, technology and services would have been available somewhere else.
NTL for that matter, you may raise your eyebrows but NTL/IBA where are just as talented in broadcast technology.
[also]Also, the licence fee allows the Beeb to "carry" a series that has low ratings, but may improve. Look at "Men Behaving Badly", "Only Fools and Horses" and "Blackadder". The first series of each of those was dreadful, and if they were on a commercial channel, they probably wouldn't have been recommissioned (this actually happened with Men Behaving Badly - it's first series was on ITV and wasn't recommissioned by them).[/QUOTE]
The same licence fee also allows the Beeb to turn out crap series after series.