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Do you think its time the Television Licence was scrapped?

Absolutely.

How much money do the BBC make through selling things to UK Gold and Fools and Horses DVDs?

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>:( dead right! the bbc.are now one of the worlds biggest multimedia conglomerates, in part to some excellent programmes,which they make and sell all around the world,and in part to all of us who pay their ridicules licence fee! which they bleat on and on every year that they need more and more money to keep up their standards!
what they really mean is,we have such a humongous salary bill to pay to all these untalented so called stars,because we have given them loads of money in case they go to another channel,also we have created channels that nobody is watching at any given time,and we liked cnn.news so much that we thought we would create our own version with lots of lovely people with degrees and speak in weird midatlantic oirish! accents!oh. and lets have 350 plasma screens in the studio,because it looks nice!
what about saturday nights! lets have that nice fat irish bastard from the other side,because we think hes popular with the public,and we will call it a lottery show!
and for the young ones lets give 6.000 p.week to another fat bastard called chris moyles
to talk a load of bollocks in the morning,just talk chris,it doesnt matter about the music.
in my opinion the bbc.have gone back to their old stuffy image,the hierarchy is staffed
by dinosaurs!

er no ,stuff the licence!
but ,wobetide anyone without a licence,remember we have ways of finding out!
because we have misused millions of licencepayers money in buying lots of hitech detector vans to catch you and criminalise you, there are no exceptions,be it pensioner ,unemployed,hard up students,employed,with or without means or even with or without a tv! >:(

I do agree - I work in TV and we have raise revenue through advertising to pay for everything...so its time the BBC did the same thing.
If the 200 + terrestial and satelite channels can do it then so can they...I`m sure Persil would pay heavily for ad space during Eastenders!

But as for BBC selling to UK Gold - unfortunatley - they are UK Gold etc - they own all the UKTV stuff with Flextech. :/


I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which i`m dying are the best i`ve ever had.

I have always thought that somebody should complain to watchdog,I mean being forced to buy a service you dont want, and if you dont buy it you can`t use any other service and if you do you are liable to be fined or put in prison,bit like being forced to buy every daily newspaper when you only want to read one, and if you dont you are breaking the law.

GET RID OF IT.

Oscar.

This item was edited on Friday, 16th January 2004, 09:32

I would rather pay a licence fee and have no adverts on the 5 TV channels, as wells as RDS news on Local stations.

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What p*ssed me off was them refusing to buy the next series of 24(letting it go to sky one for the price they paid for the others) then announcing they`d signed Graham Norton to front their saturday night entertainment. What a waste of public money.

I don`t have to pay for the license fee but still.

I might just find somewhere to download everything I want to watch and save the bother of watching it utterly chopped down or scheduled at stupid times.

It should be about choice. If you watch the Beeb then perhaps you should pay the fee after all if you get Sky you need to pay their fee plus adverts.

I gave up Sky because all I ever watched was Star Trek and Star Gate. It would have been cheaper to buy the DVDs!

I estimate that over 90% of what I watch is on the BBC so the licence fee is good value for me. I do understand though that the less well off that the cost is prohibative. It is good value but is not cheap!

Perhaps it should be income based, but then it would be a tax.

Re advertising, the arguments put about previously suggest that the advertisers budgets would stay fixed but spread out over more suppliers. Does anyone have any information on this?

I could understand people moaning about the licence if the BBC was crap.

But let`s face it. They are the best broadcaster in this country, and probably produce most of the best programs.

The licence fee is wholly justifiable if BBC do a good job - and they do.

Right on, its almost worth the L,Fee just for Radio free of commercial adverts constantly clogging up your listening, and BBC Radio is brilliant.
Also as said the programmes produced are excellant and no adds( apart fom thier own, it does annoy me when they advertise stuff on digital you can`t see)
I get the impression from people I know with Sky etc and pay hundreds of £`s a year for it way above the L,Fee that they mainly watch ordinary TV anyway apart from the odd film.
I`m not to sure about the beeb spending money analogue viewers pay on the digital service through, but long may the BBC thrive just as it is, market forces are`nt always the route to the best.
Mark.