BBC - Why am I paying my Licence Fee

lyndsay1986

We watched channel 4 ..the comedy gala nothing else was on .

i fell asleep about half hour into it lol was shattered .

DCFC79

if i had stayed in last night i would have watched some dvds, watched some of that jools holland thing as thats been good in the past then maybe watched another dvd

adindas

I think BBC international business model should follow CNN. They should accept advertisement for international audience rather than rely only on UK public paying for them.

Difficult for me to understand, why UK public who are currently hit by spending cut should subsidize the international audience ? Why people who earn minimum wage shall subsidize international audience ?

CNN could survive using their own business model and still could provide quality program and world reports. Most importantly thing that Quality Advertisement. CNN is very selective in broadcasting advertisements but at the same time could manage to fund their programs.

This is just my opinion and open for comments.

ADINDAS

System

For that price it would be cheaper if they ran their own fleet of, say, 6 minibuses.

hoyles10

We went to the pub last night then back to a mates house about half 11, we watched a bit of that Jools Holland thing and have to say although the tv schedule was rubbish it was nice to see the new year in with the lovely Kylie

Nilrem

adindas wrote: »

I think BBC international business model should follow CNN. They should accept advertisement for international audience rather than rely only on UK Taxpayers paying for them.

ADINDAS

Erm the BBC Worldwide operations run at a profit that is returned to the BBC UK (TVL) to help subsidise the production of content for the UK (to such an extent that from memory the "entertainment" part of the BBC's output effectively costs us under £10 a year from the LF*, as so much of it is able to be sold abroad to offset the costs for us in producing it).


IIRC depending on what part of BBC worldwide it's either making money through adverts, subscriptions or selling the content rights to other broadcasters (and in the UK makes money off the likes of UK Gold, and DVD's).

The only part of the BBC that broadcasts to the rest of the world without making money to pay for the UK side of things is the World Service and related radio channels, they used to be paid for by the Foreign Office as part of it's (foreign relations?) budget with the BBC running them under contract (as it made sense to do it that way), but the BBC have been forced to accept the costs of that by the government starting in a couple of years along with a licence fee freeze (so BBC worldwide is likely to be needed more to help subsidise the licence fee).



*The Conservatives did a report into how much cutting the BBC back to pure PSB (information/education with no entertainment) would save the UK licence fee payer, and came to the conclusion that it would save something like £6 a year, with a huge loss of content that the viewers like and a detrimental impact on the UK economy and TV/film industry.

Nilrem

Sooler wrote: »

you have to pay your TV licence to ... bank roll the taxi trade in Cardiff
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8231535/BBC-executives-at-one-studio-spending-more-than-1000-a-day-on-taxis.html

Aye, unfortunately taxi's are often the only reasonable way for any business working irregular hours to get small equipment/staff around at short notice.

IIRC the Cardiff "studio" is an increasingly large complex, and the taxis are used for everything from getting guests to/from the studios for interviews, to carrying things like tape back to the studio when lone reporters (to cut costs!) are sent out in a hurry.

Given that they will be using them at random times, to random locations it's almost certainly the cheapest way to deal with the need to transport people and equipment (same day couriers are hard to find in most places, especially at short notice and late night, taxi's on the other hand are available almost any time of day, anywhere).

dizziblonde

I may have missed it but the festive schedules had a few omissions this year:
We had the Towering Inferno -that one's usually inevitable, Snowman and the new arrival in the "on every year" stakes of The Gruffalo (which is a superb adaptation and I love how they kept the style of the book's illustrations - but I'm a saddo who got a cuddly Gruffalo for a present). Eastenders delivered its usual seasonal dose of thoroughly spoilered in the press for a month prior misery (although I avoided it this year), Sky resorted to the Pratchett back catalogue (again - awesome although they don't agree with my mental pictures of what the characters look like)... World's Strongest Man is currently festering on Bravo - check... Dr Who hanging up the tinsel in his Tardis. I think Mary Poppins even breezed through on a flying visit.

We were missing Escape to Victory and The Great Escape for a true festive full-house. Instead we had Lara Croft in Search For An Actual Plot.

Just wrong.

Sharon87

Nilrem wrote: »

Aye, unfortunately taxi's are often the only reasonable way for any business working irregular hours to get small equipment/staff around at short notice.

IIRC the Cardiff "studio" is an increasingly large complex, and the taxis are used for everything from getting guests to/from the studios for interviews, to carrying things like tape back to the studio when lone reporters (to cut costs!) are sent out in a hurry.

Given that they will be using them at random times, to random locations it's almost certainly the cheapest way to deal with the need to transport people and equipment (same day couriers are hard to find in most places, especially at short notice and late night, taxi's on the other hand are available almost any time of day, anywhere).

I agree, I work in TV and if any member of staff works beyond a certain time, they get a taxi home (either that or a runner sometimes drives you home if you're on location). If you put the costs of taxis in proportion to the actual budget for 1 show, it's very little percentage wise. TV is expensive to make - and getting more expensive, with a freeze in the license fee means 2 things, less budget for current programmes and less programmes being commissioned.

If there's 1 programme you like on BBC throughout the year, just think of your license fee going on that, say a runner's wage for 2/3 days, or on half a day's wage for an editor!

Freddie_Snowbits

Sharon87 wrote: »

I agree, I work in TV and if any member of staff works beyond a certain time, they get a taxi home (either that or a runner sometimes drives you home if you're on location). If you put the costs of taxis in proportion to the actual budget for 1 show, it's very little percentage wise. TV is expensive to make - and getting more expensive, with a freeze in the license fee means 2 things, less budget for current programmes and less programmes being commissioned.

If there's 1 programme you like on BBC throughout the year, just think of your license fee going on that, say a runner's wage for 2/3 days, or on half a day's wage for an editor!

If the company I work for wanted me to work overtime, it is me who gets there and home again at my expense.

Unfortunately, there is very little content on the BBC to even contemplate watching one show, the Doctor Who was poor this Christmas, and yesterday the Eric and Ernie show was absolute CODSWALLOP. I switched off after the depiction that prior to 2005, all railways where carbon chucking steam on single tracks and Eric entered the equivalent of the 1940 Britains got Talent show, I mean "You know why you're here, 'cos you've got talent!". I doubt that it was like that.

Freddie, proud not to have watched the BBC news since 21:33Z 03:05:1982. A good 29 years worth.