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Everyone on the world can watch the BBC free. My daughter in Australia and expats around Europe. Yet only the people who live here have to pay this extortionist charge to watch this leftie drivel. Their bias is one of the main reasons it should change. I see Rona Fairhead, head of the BBC Trust has been lambasted by MPs yesterday about the BBC squandering...
08:58 Thu 26th Feb 2015
I would gladly pay my licence fee for The Archers, John Humphries, David Attenborough, Jeremy Paxman, and The Proms alone !
Consistently great program making, which sell around the world. If they want to generate some money, than sell off Radio One, which is very little different to any other pop music station.
Consistently great program making, which sell around the world. If they want to generate some money, than sell off Radio One, which is very little different to any other pop music station.
I am admittedly biased having had a bad experience with Virgin (they tried to charge me £50 to tell me if there was a cable in our street!) but it does seem rather perverse to studiously avoid the BBC at all cost just to say that you are paying for something you don't use.
I am old fashioned enough to think that the BBC is a national service that benefits us all and that we all have a stake in. More than just another 'entertainment provider'
Can you honestly say the same about Virgin?
I am old fashioned enough to think that the BBC is a national service that benefits us all and that we all have a stake in. More than just another 'entertainment provider'
Can you honestly say the same about Virgin?
ymb....are you saying that you never watch any BBC TV channel or listen to any BBC Radio station ? Are you also saying that you have never watched any BBC program in the past ?
David Attenborough has been making first class TV programs for over 40 years....do you really not watch them either ?
What about the Olympics ? Always on the Beeb but never on ITV ?
If you say YES to the above, then I am not sure why you are depriving yourself of the best TV and radio in the land ! Tastes differ from person to person of course, but I find it strange that nothing that the Beeb puts out is of any interest to you.
David Attenborough has been making first class TV programs for over 40 years....do you really not watch them either ?
What about the Olympics ? Always on the Beeb but never on ITV ?
If you say YES to the above, then I am not sure why you are depriving yourself of the best TV and radio in the land ! Tastes differ from person to person of course, but I find it strange that nothing that the Beeb puts out is of any interest to you.
ymb....are you saying that you never watch any BBC TV channel or listen to any BBC Radio station ? Are you also saying that you have never watched any BBC program in the past ?
Of course I have, there was little else when I was young !! But these days I can't really remember last time I did watch it and certainly if it was not there I would not miss it.
David Attenborough has been making first class TV programs for over 40 years....do you really not watch them either ? I have seen them but usually on EDEN - a commercial channel. Ther eare also plenty of other top class TV programs, the BBC by no means has a monopoly on 1st class TV.
What about the Olympics ? Always on the Beeb but never on ITV ?
Why has the BBC got a monopoly? And no, I dont watch the Olympics.
I have no objection to it being there, I just fail to see why I should subsidise other peoples viewing. If it is so good then I am sure you will all pay for it - the full price not subsidized by tax payers. If you wont then it can't be that good then can it?
Of course I have, there was little else when I was young !! But these days I can't really remember last time I did watch it and certainly if it was not there I would not miss it.
David Attenborough has been making first class TV programs for over 40 years....do you really not watch them either ? I have seen them but usually on EDEN - a commercial channel. Ther eare also plenty of other top class TV programs, the BBC by no means has a monopoly on 1st class TV.
What about the Olympics ? Always on the Beeb but never on ITV ?
Why has the BBC got a monopoly? And no, I dont watch the Olympics.
I have no objection to it being there, I just fail to see why I should subsidise other peoples viewing. If it is so good then I am sure you will all pay for it - the full price not subsidized by tax payers. If you wont then it can't be that good then can it?
YMB...I will agree with you that another way of paying for the Beeb needs to be found, as it is getting harder to make a case for a flat everyone-pays method. But this has been debated for many years and as TTT has said, its not easy to see how it can be done better. I fully realise that it is beginning to look less fair to everybody, as time goes on.
But I don't want to see adverts in the middle of the Proms !
But I don't want to see adverts in the middle of the Proms !
The best part of the BBC, already is free, and available world-wide, that is radio; a fantastic service! With BBC Radio iPlayer you have an amazing amount of first-class programmes.
On Radio 4extra at the moment I'm half way through 30, 1/4 hour programmes on the history of astronomy by Heather Couper. Last week I heard in 6 episodes Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot'. Nowhere in the world can you get such a variety of plays, music (of every kind) and interest.
On Radio 4extra at the moment I'm half way through 30, 1/4 hour programmes on the history of astronomy by Heather Couper. Last week I heard in 6 episodes Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot'. Nowhere in the world can you get such a variety of plays, music (of every kind) and interest.