Is the licence fee worth it? Poll discussion

I went 'Freeview' I just wish that the broadcasters would also take thier own advice and go 'Freeview' If the weather gets hot or we have Thunder storms I have to revert to the old TV system soon to be phased out.
My freeview reception is intermittent, sometime very good and often hopeless.
I also bought a DAB radio. Talksport and most commercial stations are very good to good but sadly Talksport is a load of rubbish with excellent reception, on the other hand BBC programms have some very good content but again with unreliable reception. I do get a lot of continental stations, all I want is the service that I pay for.
I live in East Kent 70 miles from london so I would have thought that this area should be a good reception but sadly it is not.
The sooner the BBC goes commercial the better and then the licence fee abolished. BBC2 should run as a Public Service Broadcaster funded by the commercial broadcasters, public service advertisements such as road safety and Voluntary donations. and I type Radio 4 news at 9am has failed. The BBC aint what it was!!

I agree £135.50 is a lot of money especially if you don't watch BBC!

The thing I hate with the licence fee is the bully boy tactics with the collection. They treat you as guilty before knowing anything about you. If you don't have a licence they're on your back straight away even though you may not even have a tV - they just assume everyone has a TV.

The worst thing is it is the only company I know that arranges collection by DDM but you have to pay 6 months in advance for the next year's TV licence! So each year your paying the current year plus some of the next year! I refuse to pay by DDM (even though all my bills are paid by DDM) and save a monthly amount and pay by credit card for the year. It is disgraceful.

This is a tired old brand that would have gone out of business years ago in the open market.

Good TV comes from America and Channel 4.

If I wanted to give money to Guardian reading, middle class, Lefties I'd just buy the Guardian and subscribe to the Socialist Worker.

Its an appauling company, self-important, poor quality, lost in its own 60's Socialist time-warp. Anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Tory, anti-British, pro-terrorist.

The worst thing is the BBC's laughable propaganda that it is impartian and for the public good. It serves the Left.

I respect anyone on the Left who has an intelligent opinion, I just don't want to pay their wages.

Thatcher freed this country from many evils, Union madness, Socialism, and old Labour.. if only she'd stuck the knife in this disgusting old monstrosity this country would be better off.