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Old 20-09-2018, 20:57   #31
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

If I was DG of The BBC I would.

-Axe all BBC Local English Radio Channels - unless BBC launches them all on Digital TV Networks.

-Axe BBC Radio 3

-Axe BBC night at the proms

-Stop buying Sports rights just to put them on BBC Red Button just so we can watch repeats of Home under the Hammer on BBC 2.
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Old 20-09-2018, 21:54   #32
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

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If I was DG of The BBC I would.

-Axe all BBC Local English Radio Channels - unless BBC launches them all on Digital TV Networks.

-Axe BBC Radio 3

-Axe BBC night at the proms

-Stop buying Sports rights just to put them on BBC Red Button just so we can watch repeats of Home under the Hammer on BBC 2.
Well thank goodness you aren't DG then !
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Old 20-09-2018, 22:58   #33
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

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I thought the whole thing went to the BBC - they're involved in it's collection rather than HMG.

And there is no VAT on it either.
Capita collects the fee and takes 3p per £1 for administration costs.

The vast majority goes to the BBC, other recipients are:
- The World Service (used to be Government funded)
- Funding Jeremy Hunt's vanity project of local TV channels
- UK broadband rollout
- S4C
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Old 21-09-2018, 11:06   #34
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

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I believe all our VM sub goes to VM aswell .

Sometimes I think people forget all the extra things the BBC provides, all without advertising. e.g. local and national radio, website.

A commercial provider just wouldn't provife these services it if it wasn't profitable and full of adverts.
Yeah, but they don't get the benefits of the licence fee!

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Simples make it law that the broadcasters of all TV and Radio put the adverts in between the programes and not during (i.e. splitting the programe in bits). Then somebody would say to me that companies and products would not bother to advertise (of cause they would).
So how do you expect broadcasters to work with the reduced income that would result?

Methinks you've not thought this through!

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If I was DG of The BBC I would.

-Axe all BBC Local English Radio Channels - unless BBC launches them all on Digital TV Networks.

-Axe BBC Radio 3

-Axe BBC night at the proms

-Stop buying Sports rights just to put them on BBC Red Button just so we can watch repeats of Home under the Hammer on BBC 2.
Well, we can see that you ain't got no culture, then, MB. What happened to the mantra we keep hearing that the BBC is for everyone?
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Old 21-09-2018, 16:47   #35
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

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No it doesnt.

TV is not a necessity, if they want it, they should pay for it, like the rest of us have to.
Indeed. I have friends (admittedly not many) that have no interest in TV, so don't own one, preferring to be entertained by watching theatre, cinema, listening to live music and reading books.

While I do have several TVs, enjoy using them, and have the required licence for them, I don't think TV is an essential item for me personally. It is handy, but not essential.
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Old 21-09-2018, 19:50   #36
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

If the TV license is funding the broadband rollout, you know what's going to be the next thing to require a license...

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Old 21-09-2018, 19:53   #37
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If the TV license is funding the broadband rollout, you know what's going to be the next thing to require a license...
Licences are old fashioned now - I can't see any increase in the types of licence of this kind issued in the future.

Subscriptions are the way forward. That way, you gear the income received to the level of demand.
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Old 22-09-2018, 13:44   #38
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee

There has to be a public broadcasting company so that there is at least something. Politically unbiased, of course, which the BBC isn’t.
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There has to be a public broadcasting company so that there is at least something. Politically unbiased, of course, which the BBC isn’t.
If the BBC can't do it, can anyone else? Probably not, because in theory they should be working at the BBC. So, if it can't be done...
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Old 22-09-2018, 14:13   #40
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If the BBC can't do it, can anyone else? Probably not, because in theory they should be working at the BBC. So, if it can't be done...
I think a clear-out at the BBC and an infusion of people with integrity could be the way forward for the BBC. A start has to be made.
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Old 22-09-2018, 18:38   #41
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There has to be a public broadcasting company so that there is at least something. Politically unbiased, of course, which the BBC isn’t.
Well, the Left think the BBC is right-wing, the Right think the BBC is left-wing, Remainers think it is the Brexit Broacasting Company, and Brexiteers think it is anti-Brexit, so I am of the opinion that the bias is in the eye of the beholder...
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Well, the Left think the BBC is right-wing, the Right think the BBC is left-wing, Remainers think it is the Brexit Broacasting Company, and Brexiteers think it is anti-Brexit, so I am of the opinion that the bias is in the eye of the beholder...
The Remainers are wrong.
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Old 22-09-2018, 19:35   #43
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Well, the Left think the BBC is right-wing, the Right think the BBC is left-wing, Remainers think it is the Brexit Broacasting Company, and Brexiteers think it is anti-Brexit, so I am of the opinion that the bias is in the eye of the beholder...
Spot on Hugh with your unbiased analysis.
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There has to be a public broadcasting company so that there is at least something. Politically unbiased, of course, which the BBC isn’t.
Why does there have to be a public broadcasting company?

I've nothing against the idea in principle, but I am sure we could cope without! And I am happy for the Beeb to be that provider, if we have to have one, provided it can get its finances sorted out. At the moment, they have a grotesque advantage over the commercial stations.
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Why does there have to be a public broadcasting company?

I've nothing against the idea in principle, but I am sure we could cope without! And I am happy for the Beeb to be that provider, if we have to have one, provided it can get its finances sorted out. At the moment, they have a grotesque advantage over the commercial stations.
The BBC no longer exclusively fills that role.

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