tv license

[berniecuddles]

Having read today that the bbc are putting up the license fee to �150 by 2012 is it not about time that pay per view for the bbc was bought in,i'm lucky enough to be able to afford sky tv and being honest, if i watch a programme via any bbc channel say once a month i would not be far out!
I think we should be able to have a choice and pay per view seems a fair way to me!!

[jake-the-peg]

I disagree and so do an awful lot of people on here judging by the responses to this in the past.

Even in 2012 that's 41p a day and making it pay per view would kill some of the highest quality production on the planet.

Even your most basic sky is more expensive than that now! and the BBC gives you radio production too !

The rise is less than the rate of inflation anyway!

It always amazes me that some people would want to sacrifice it to save a few coppers.

[kev100]

The BBC is the best value for money ever devised, compare it to the scandalous rip off of ITV.

Can anyone be dim enough to think that ITV is free?

Buy a can of baked beans in Netto they are 9p buy the same thing in Sainsbury's they are 25p. Why? because Sainsburys advertise on TV Netto do not.

When you buy a fridge freezer that you saw advertised on ITV who do you think paid for the ad.

Was it:

The pixies
The seven dwarfs
or the chumps that watch ITV

[Gromit]

I think the BBC is great value for money, but I do have some sympathy with bernie6969. Paying for something you do not use/want cannot be right. The television marketplace will change rapidly in the next few years, so this 5 year deal may well be redundant before 2112. Downloads, internet and pay-per-view will hit the BBC. However, he BBC do make a lot of good programmes which people would buy, so that will be a source of revenue plus some kind of government top-up so that pensioners get their programmes for free and the beeb gets some guaranteed income. ITV will be hit harder than the BBC though and may well get gobbled up by Murdoch.

[Llamatron]

I refuse to give Rupert Murdoch any of my money.
At least while I have a choice.

This insane multichannel TV era is killing quality TV. The TV stations have far more hours to fill so have to make cheaper programs and programs that are successful are done to death. I doubt very much if Big Brother would have existed without it.

[jno]

'paying for something you do not use cannot be right'... well, there's a school of thought (socialism, I think) that says it is indeed right. Childless people pay taxes that pay for schools. The healthy contribute to the NHS. It's because people think (or their parents did) that these things are in the national interest and society as a whole gains some benefit from them. I'd include the BBC in that, though you certainly won't hear me complaining if they cut Jonathan Woss's pay by about three quarters.

And as has already been suggested, is it any fairer that I have to pay more for Sainsbury's beans because they advertise on a TV channel I don't watch?

[gina32]

not saying get rid off bbc but the fact that they pay people like jonathon ross 18 million quid for what? is a bit annoying