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Originally Posted by Boom
Or you could say that decent channels aren't available terrestially and that paying money for them overtop of the license fee means ppl can't afford the extra cable channels, thus they are stuck in a 4 or, if they can properly receive channel 5, 5 channel choice. So naturally BBC2 wins and, not having advertisments helps? That or, since the channel is already paid for in a sense, ppl are trying to get their money out of it?
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Not at all. Go and have a look at the statistics on the page I linked to. As C4, then satellite, then C5 became available, BBC1 and ITV lost audience share, ITV most of all. BBC2 has remained almost completely constant, so it's audience share relative to the available choice
has increased. BBC1, meanwhile, has gone from the second most popular TV channel in the UK to
the most popular.
As for whether people can afford the licence, it amounts to a direct debit payment of £11 a month. I'm paying NTL £18 a month for the Base Pack and anyone who takes the family pack and any movies or sport can easily be spending £30 or £40 a month on TV. Are you really saying that £11 a month is causing such financial hardship?
Your point about people wanting to get their money's worth really doesn't stack up either. It would be a bloody-minded person indeed who would st through a programme they hated for half an hour, simply because they knew they'd paid for it through ther licence. You and I only sit through a TV programme if we're
enjoying it.