BBC wants to increase licence fee
18-09-2018, 22:16
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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instead it needs to be free/subsidised for those on Income Support.
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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.
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18-09-2018, 22:26
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Or you’re both watching the same programme, and it’s your viewpoint that interprets what’s being shown...
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Frankly the fact that all parties hate the BBC for bias fills me with comfort. It means that as a Public Broadcasting Company they are managing to walk the line of true neutrality.
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19-09-2018, 19:51
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
Well they to pay Sir Cliff loads of dosh and fund all these so called celebs massive wage bills some how.. don't they.
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19-09-2018, 19:59
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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and fund all these so called celebs massive wage bills some how.. don't they.
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Hit the nail on the head and that's the bttm line.
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19-09-2018, 20:22
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Hit the nail on the head and that's the bttm line.
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However Chris Evans is off to Virgin radio. He'll get paid more than the BBC can offer him ( good riddance imho, he gives me a migraine !). Private broadcasters aren't open to such scrutiny, the BBC is at a disadvantage in that respect.
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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.
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Thank you Ebineezer !
Why should rich pensioners get free TV licences then ?
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19-09-2018, 20:57
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
How much of the collected TVL money actually goes to the BBC?
Perhaps handing over more of what is skimmed off by HMG (if it is) is the way forward?
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20-09-2018, 08:34
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
I'm thinking of sending them copies of the TV licenses I've had over the last 10 years . . . just to prove I've already paid once for many of the (repeat) programs on offer
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20-09-2018, 09:23
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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How much of the collected TVL money actually goes to the BBC?
Perhaps handing over more of what is skimmed off by HMG (if it is) is the way forward?
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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.
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20-09-2018, 09:30
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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.
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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.
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20-09-2018, 09:48
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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.
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l have not forgotten what the BBC provides its just on a few things they need to go back to the basics and start again.
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20-09-2018, 10:51
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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.
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as I understand it it doesn't all go to the BBC. Hence why you are 'forced' to pay it.
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20-09-2018, 11:02
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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.
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I think the majority of folk would want a advert run BBC that has dire programs being aired on it anyway, I cannot remember the last thing I watched on a BBC channel, it is that poor, so I think adverts, rather than pay a hefty yearly fee.
The TV License is an outdated concept and needs to be scrapped-IMHO.
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20-09-2018, 12:44
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
Surely it would be better to allow competing TV channels with competing viewpoints and unrestricted speech than to try to pretend that we're all paying for one beloved organisation that "always strives to be truly objective".
Unless of course, the point is to want people around the world to think that the state media here is somehow the true voice of objectivity.
Too many adverts? That's what Ofcom is for.
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20-09-2018, 16:19
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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Originally Posted by Mr K
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.
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20-09-2018, 19:36
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Re: BBC wants to increase licence fee
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).
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