Licence Fee - Is it worth it?

Gingham_Ribbon

Is it worth it? Yes.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2009185&postcount=25

Murphy_The_Cat

Every penny - Radio5Live is worth it on its own.

MTC

starlite_2

well..channel 4, and especially more4 produce far better quality programs than the bbc in general..
i'd rather have 5 min. ad breaks than pay the license fee!
plus the 'golden handshakes' and fat salaries radio 1 djs get is disgusting

though maybe adverts oradio is not so good.. the adverts on local / commercial radio are beyond annoying!

MiserlyMartin

The principle of a fee is ok - its good to have ad free TV and radio. But the way the BBC wastes the money is not. They overspend and they waste, it ought to be reduced - halved. Cut the jollies, cut the inflated salaries and over staffing.

MrSmartprice

It's absolute robbery. The BBC channels are full of rubbish and repeats, some of them 30 years old. Their idea of originality is more cheap "reality" trash that has dumbed BBC1 down to below where ITV is. Their news coverage reeks of political correctness and left wing bias. And the PC brigade have infiltrated every area of their programmes. Rarely do I bother watching anything on BBC these days.

Even BBC radio has gone down the pan. I used to listen to Five Live in the car, and at home too. Again it has gone loony-leftie. I finally deserted when I couldn't stand that Derbyshire woman a moment longer. It's Talksport for me now, where you get some proper discussion, and some sports presenters who actually know what they are talking about. Except Mike Parry, of course!

starlite_2

There was a funny article in the Guardian recently,

It said something along the lines of
''paying the license fee feels like being mugged and then made to watch the crack party you are unwillingly funding''

snigger

bridiej

We dont have a licence fee here, most of the channels are commercial apart from ABC which actually shows a lot of BBC programmes, at the moment it's Absolute Power and the new Doctor Who is due soon.

I must admit commercials are a pain as they do tend to be every 5 minutes sometimes - I often video things like Midsummer Murders just so I can fast forward over the ads. But in general the TV quality is pretty similar to the BBC, some rubbish, some good with a bit of horrible reality TV thrown in.

justpaper

some one needs too build some type of bbc blocker,.. there taking the !!!!!! by forced a service on you,.. and the bbc want too put a fee on boardband connections ,.. WFT ??!?!?

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http://www.tvlicensing.biz/


bbc pay fiona bruce 500k a year too


http://uk-tvlicensing-resistance.co.nr/ do these steps if they take u too court lol that will cost em

Saucepot

The issue isn't whether the TV tax represents good or bad value, it's the fact that it's a tax for TV. Not schools, hospital, police, but TV.

For crying out loud. You have to pay for it whether you want it or not. We're free to buy newspapers without a newspaper tax, why should TV be different ?

For those that don't think the TV tax is value for money, it's grossly unjust. For those that do think it's good value, why should others subsidise your TV on threat of fines/imprisonment ?

Paul_Herring

Saucepot wrote:

You have to pay for it whether you want it or not.

Here we go again. No you don't. I don't pay for it. Then again, I choose not to have a TV because I objected to paying (I think it was around) £110 at the time for the < 8 hours of TV I was watching a week, none of it on BBC.