01-02-2019, 12:57
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Re: Funding of the BBC
TV licence fee HIKED: BBC confirms ANOTHER rise in price to watch favourite TV shows
BRITONS will face a hike in the price they pay to watch the BBC, with the cost of a TV licence rising from April 1.
The BBC has confirmed the cost of the licence will rise from £150.50 to £154.50. The increase is see the cost of watching favourite TV programmes rise for a third year in a row. In 2016 a TV licence cost £145.50.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/10...-tv-april-2019
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01-02-2019, 13:08
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Re: Funding of the BBC
So just an inflationary rise then ...
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01-02-2019, 13:53
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Re: Funding of the BBC
You would have thought the world had ended. 
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01-02-2019, 15:31
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
TV licence fee HIKED: BBC confirms ANOTHER rise in price to watch favourite TV shows
BRITONS will face a hike in the price they pay to watch the BBC, with the cost of a TV licence rising from April 1.
The BBC has confirmed the cost of the licence will rise from £150.50 to £154.50. The increase is see the cost of watching favourite TV programmes rise for a third year in a row. In 2016 a TV licence cost £145.50.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/10...-tv-april-2019 |
Maybe if you sell the boat you might just cope ?
The fee was frozen between for 6 years from 2010, so we've been getting very good vfm. If only VM did the same....
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01-02-2019, 15:46
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Maybe if you sell the boat you might just cope ?
The fee was frozen between for 6 years from 2010, so we've been getting very good vfm. If only VM did the same.... |
It's difficult in these economic times to find someone with enough wonga to invest in a boat with 5 berths in 3 separate cabins with tv,a fitted kitchen and shower/toilet compartment,separate wheel house ,and out side seating area,but then again it's not for sale
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01-02-2019, 15:49
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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It's difficult in these economic times to find someone with enough wonga to invest in a boat with 5 births in 3 separate cabins with tv,a fitted kitchen and shower/toilet compartment,separate wheel house ,and out side seating area,but then again it's not for sale |
TV in the boat ? You might need another licence for that 
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01-02-2019, 15:50
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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It's difficult in these economic times to find someone with enough wonga to invest in a boat with 5 births in 3 separate cabins with tv,a fitted kitchen and shower/toilet compartment,separate wheel house ,and out side seating area,but then again it's not for sale |
I hope you hosed the cabins out afterwards...
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01-02-2019, 15:53
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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I hope you hosed the cabins out afterwards... |
Berths -oops
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TV in the boat ? You might need another licence for that |
Do they have TV detector boats?
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01-02-2019, 16:27
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Do they have TV detector boats? |
l am sending one out now so you better start hiding..
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01-02-2019, 16:59
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Is BBC Parliament really one of the most watched channels? BARB data seems to show a 0.5% reach while the other BBC channels have;
BBC1 68.9%
BBC2 44.6%
BBC4 12.7%
BBC News 9.5%
CBeebies 7.3%
CBBC 3.9%
(Source, page 63 of annual report http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/abouttheb...ort_201718.pdf) |
No it's not, it's one of the channels no one watches but for some bizarre reason Mr K was saying they're the most watched channels with 4 times the viewers of sky
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01-02-2019, 16:59
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Berths -oops
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Do they have TV detector boats? |
Yup...
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01-02-2019, 16:59
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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It's a public service broadcaster, which you can't seem to get your head around. It's output is different from other broadcasters, as it isn't a slave to ratings and advertiser's. It makes programmes others don't as they aren't profitable. All that glitters isn't subscription TV.
Yes I'd wish there weren't repeats but unless you really want to pay a lot more £12 a month that's the way it is.
Tbh I'd wish it went off air in the daytime (like the good old days !), rather than all the property/antique programmes, and didn't do stuff like Strictly. But some people like them and it has to cater for all tastes as the licence fee is universal.
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Er, I do know what a public service broadcaster is, Mr K. However, it is a very old fashioned innovation and it's about time the concept was thoroughly reviewed.
You and other naysayers keep on saying that the cost of a subscription would be more than the cost of a TV licence. I disagree. The freedom the Beeb would gain from breaking away from government control (including not having to fund free licences for the elderly) would make up for the slightly smaller number taking up the subscription.
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01-02-2019, 17:13
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Er, I do know what a public service broadcaster is, Mr K. However, it is a very old fashioned innovation and it's about time the concept was thoroughly reviewed.
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Why? as it ain't broke you don't need to fix it.
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01-02-2019, 17:49
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Why? as it ain't broke you don't need to fix it.
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Because some people are paying for a broadcasting service they don't use, because there is too much waste in the public service BBC, because the Beeb could be free to innovate and make more services available to viewers (such as a Netflix-type service and make more money to boot, because....
Wait a minute, haven't we been through all this before? So how can you say with a straight face that it ain't broke?
At least, I assume you have a straight face!  .
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01-02-2019, 17:55
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Re: Funding of the BBC
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Because some people are paying for a broadcasting service they don't use, because there is too much waste in the public service BBC, because the Beeb could be free to innovate and make more services available to viewers (such as a Netflix-type service and make more money to boot, because....
Wait a minute, haven't we been through all this before? So how can you say with a straight face that it ain't broke?
At least, I assume you have a straight face! . |
Well 150 posts on from your OP, and you seem to be rather going round in circles ! Tell the BBC/ Govt. about your innovative ideas, don't think they read CF.
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