Bbc?

[Svejk]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11435247/There-are-better-ways-to-fund-the-BBC.html#disqus_thread

[Retrochic]

Scrap the Licence fund and get investors and advertising capital like the other TV Companies. As soon as the non payment of Licence becomes decriminalized many will stop paying and they will have great difficulty prosecuting anyone it would cost too much.

[ichkeria]

The BBC around the world is commercially funded which is why, sadly, we can't get BBC World here
That might work here perhaps I don't know
You tend to find though that the BBC's critics have their own agenda just as surely as the agenda they are convinced the BBC works to

[ichkeria]

Svejk there's a bit of a difference between recommending the scintilla of the BBC Trust and slamming the BBC in general as some Trotskyite outfit that forces poor folk into jail for not paying their licence fee :-) A slight caricature, but only slight

[ichkeria]

The scintilla?? The scrapping!

[Svejk]

Even the BBC spokesman, talking on the BBC, agreed the Trust had to go.

[Peter Pedant]

how times change

licences are an outdated way of running things

Lack of a licence to watch a monitor should not be a criminal act

[Peter Pedant]

Trust is not fit for purpose
well we all knew that .... and it is only 5 y old innit

Lots more out of work grandees with a sense of entitlement queuing for their place in the House of Lords ! O yes please !

[Peter Pedant]

Scintilla of the BBC trust - not bad

cathode ray tubes all those years ago used to have scintillae ( small flash ) and that could describe the contribution of the Trust - flash in the pan

inspired

[ToraToraTora]

as much as I hate certain aspects of the leftwing infested outfit, I do support it's existance. The BBC offers world wide quaility broadcasting and it its an institution. The funding in it's current form is not easily bettered, I for one am happy with the £3 per week pre household.

[mikey4444]

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.

[youngmafbog]

TTT/Mickey. Fine but you are expecting me to fund your viewing. How is that acceptable?

Either of you want to fund my Virgin subscription?

[ichkeria]

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?

[mikey4444]

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.

[youngmafbog]

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?

[mikey4444]

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 !

[Khandro]

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.

[mikey4444]

Agree one million % Khandro ! Its free, but Radio still has to be paid for ! Would you want ruddy adverts halfway through your programs, like they have in Classic FM ?

[ToraToraTora]

come on YMB, you mean you never have any contact with any BBC production ever?