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Old 04-03-2022, 11:56   #16
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Re: BBC licence fee

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GB News seems to be impartial with good coverage.
lts reputation has suffered somewhat on that front with Farage tweeting the Putin line on the invasion of Ukraine.

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Old 04-03-2022, 13:50   #17
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lts reputation has suffered somewhat on that front with Farage tweeting the Putin line on the invasion of Ukraine.

What, this one?

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Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would.

A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.

These are dark days for Europe
https://www.google.com/search?q=fara...hrome&ie=UTF-8

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Old 04-03-2022, 14:02   #18
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Re: BBC licence fee

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No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.



No one wants to pay for it, so who else is going to pay for it?
I stopped paying for it years ago and now solely watch Netflix.
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No one wants to pay for it, so who else is going to pay for it?
I stopped paying for it years ago and now solely watch Netflix.
Yes of course you do.
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Farage said that he'd got it wrong in the Twitter link I posted.
I've admired Putin as an operator too; now he's gone insane, my admiration has lapsed (as with Farage's admiration).
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Re: BBC licence fee

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No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.
So not the BBC then
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Old 04-03-2022, 21:21   #23
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The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
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The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
Yes but people can cancel their cable, they're not charged for not watching it
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Re: BBC licence fee

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No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.
Exactly. There is a proposal to fund news etc from a Government grant and the entertainment etc from a subscription.

The BBC could not remain independent if news is funded by a Government grant. If they covered something the Government didn't like or something embarrassing, they could so easily be threatened with a funding cut.

I accept that this can and appears to have been done with the TVL though.

I think it would be better levying a media tax as a precept to the Council Tax. Almost everyone benefits from the BBC in some way. Despite it's faults, it really came into it's own when the pandemic started and they have recently started doing emergency broadcasts to Ukrania as Putin trys to stop the correct information from getting out to the people there by bombing TV masts and trying to knock out the internet.
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Yes but people can cancel their cable, they're not charged for not watching it

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Hahaha I remember that when it was first broadcast
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The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
I get a lot more for my Cable sub.
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I get a lot more for my Cable sub.
Mostly repeats of BBC programmes !

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Sometimes I think people forget what they are getting for less than £14 a month:-

Nine national TV channels plus regional TV services

Radio stations - 10 pan-UK, six national and 40 local

BBC website - including News, Sport, Weather, CBeebies, CBBC, Food, Bitesize, Arts

BBC iPlayer - 1000s of live and on demand programmes (including news, sport, dramas, comedy, documentaries, entertainment), box sets and exclusive content

BBC Sounds - a huge range of musical genres, radio stations and podcasts

BBC World Service - TV, radio and online

Other apps and online services like Bitesize, CBeebies, Food, News, Sport and Weather


A subscription service us impractical because of the way the BBC is broadcast and would cost a lot more.
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