Scrap the BBC to cut the defecit

twadge_face

doire wrote: »

Jeeeez i didn't know that. *roll eyes*

You knew about BBC Fish?!

No doubt you watch "so you think you can dance".....license money well spent on that rubbish

My wife does. She loves all that stuff. So do families in general. I personally detest all* Saturday evening TV.

Point is, you're expressing an opinion, not fact. Those shows are very popular. The licence fee is compulsory**. The populace, such as it is, needs representation and if that means competing with commercial services... then so be it. Such is the conundrum of the Beeb.

My POINT was that you have plenty of CHOICE.

Whilst So You Think You Can Dance was on on BBC1, betwixt 7.10pm and 8.10pm, last Saturday April 16th 2011, you could have watched:

World Championship Snooker on BBC2.
Doctor Who on BBC3 (finale of last season, btw)
Yellowstone on BBC4 (wildlife documentary in Jellystone Park)

So that's family entertainment, sport, sci-fi/fantasy drama, or documentary. All ad-free. I think also all made by the Beeb.

Still bored? Have a look through the content on BBC iPlayer, listen to the radio (Craig Charles Funk Show on Radio 6, both a show and a station unlike ANYTHING available commercially).

Anyway, I think we do pretty well with the BBC. I also speak in favour of it even if I don't agree with everything they do. And I hate their "Auntie Knows Best" attitude. What a bunch of twadges!

Still, better than Murdoch charging you £60 a month (£720 a year, moneysavers!!) for a package of ad-ridden garbage (that's right moneysavers, you're paying TWICE for Murdoch's brilliant entertainment solution).

And even the you probably won't make the best of the MASSES of junk available to you, EVER. Instead you'll remain addicted to channel hopping and the Diamonique products on QVC.

All the while brain decays and you start to question the point of paying for a TV license. What's the BBC for anyway?

And then for a brief moment you recognise the charred empty, but somehow bloated and decadent, husk of a twadge you have becometh. Till then the moment is lost forever as your soul is sucked into Rupert Murdoch's SKY+ box, beamed directly to his Davros-esque life support system... part of his brilliant plan to enslave all of humankind.

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*except Dr Who
**if you has a telly

asbokid

Niksan wrote: »

it'll be hard to avoid it unless the only thing in your house is a radio.

In the dying days of the New Labour government, the introduction of car radio licence was mooted. It would have been a bolt-on to the Vehicle Excise Licence. Cameron the Bankers' Buckaneer seems to have forgotten the plans. Hope no one reminds him.

Since 98% of households have a TV, the BBC should be funded through general taxation. That would be much more efficient.

However, the argument for the TV licence is that administration of the licensing scheme provides employment for a huge army of goons at TVLA.

The sole function of the TVLA army is to harass the 2% who have no TV licence, whether they need one or not.

The situation is a throwback to the Soviet era when the state went to great lengths to create full employment through tiers of pointless bureaucracy.

So..

Fund the BBC through general taxation, and scrap the TV licence along with the monsters at the TVLA.

Immediate saving to the UK .. a juicy £500m per year.

asbokid

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Watching online is very different from watching on TV, apart from being uncomfortable if there is more than one of you, the sound and visual quality is poorer.

The poor quality is down to the inferior technical specification and the poor delivery system that the BBC has chosen to serve its online output. But it needn't be that way.

If the bandwidth is available, online viewing could be better quality than (HD) broadcast TV which is limited to 1080i. At the very least, online viewing should be the same quality as HDTV.

There are several TV torrent sites where almost all British TV programmes can be downloaded to watch in standard and high definitions. Most modern TVs have a HDMI/DVI socket for connecting a PC video output, so the days of huddling round a tiny screen are over.

The world's oldest working TV, sold at auction last week.
Built in 1936, the year that Edward VIII abdicated to back Hitler

Wookster

B_Blank wrote: »

We dont need the BBC, let it go private and see if they survive paying their current crop of washed up loser insane wages to provide terrible tv.

Also, where do the BBC find their question time audiences? They are always so left wing that I wonder if they pop round to the local union office and bring a load of them in, or perhaps they go to the job centre and get a load of the scrongers to come in and cheer for labour because they know they will give them a high wage just to sit around all day for 40 yrs of "working" age.

What a stupid idea.

The BBC, though it has its faults, does some really quite remarkable stuff including wildlife & science documentaries that no one else has the skill or experience to do.

Now we just gotta get Steph Flanders to stop wearing that awful green skirt!

purch

What a stupid idea

I think you'll find that this is the whole purpose of Blankedy Blank and his threads.

The stupidist person in the World posting the stupidist ideas imaginable.

B_Blank

purch wrote: »

I think you'll find that this is the whole purpose of Blankedy Blank and his threads.

The stupidist person in the World posting the stupidist ideas imaginable.

Actually my scheme would put about 500m back into the economy. This would have a tremendous impact. I am presenting some really interesting ideas. I am trying to stimulate some high brow debate on these boards. You, on the other hand, are simply being negative and rude..SORRY!!!

If i was was in charge of this country then the UK would be the leading country in the world...no doubt about it. It would only take me about 2 yrs to get there too. Please either join in with my intelligent debate or dont bother posting

thanks

lucylucky

B_Blank wrote: »

Actually my scheme would put about 500m back into the economy. This would have a tremendous impact. I am presenting some really interesting ideas. I am trying to stimulate some high brow debate on these boards. You, on the other hand, are simply being negative and rude..SORRY!!!

If i was was in charge of this country then the UK would be the leading country in the world...no doubt about it. It would only take me about 2 yrs to get there too. Please either join in with my intelligent debate or dont bother posting

thanks

I have read this whole thread and can't see any of your "interesting ideas".


As we say - you are a tube.;)

purch

Actually my scheme would put about 500m back into the economy

Where did you get that imaginary number from ?

Your basic premise as outlined in your incorrectly spelled thread title is to reduce the defecit (sic) by scrapping the BBC who do not form any part of the UK Governments defecit or deficit.

Utter nonsense as usual. :T

Cleaver

I love the BBC. It's not without fault, obviously, but I think it's ace and I can never quite believe how much stuff I get for just over a tenner a month. I'd pay a tenner a month for Radio 4 alone, and I'd probably pay close to a tenner a month just for Match of the Day and their general footie content on their website and Five Live. So everything else I listen, watch and use (which is a lot) seems a fantastic deal.

Loughton_Monkey

The standards within the BBC have noticeably declined - consistently - since Muffin The Mule was taken off air.