TV License, worth it?

BeingBernard

katejo wrote: »

I agree with you. I find good quality entertainment particularly on the BBC channels and ITV. I'm much less into the other channels.
Most evenings I find something to watch though I don't go in for watching for hours on end.

I know I am going further off topic, but the amount of times I use the BBC website, e.g. The education services, it seems fabulous value, especially when I think how much some people are prepared to pay for sky tv.

Mikeyorks

nig3d wrote: »

According the TV License site my license expires on 30 September 2012. Is this license already paid or I am paying monthly for it?

It started Sept 2011. If you're paying monthly DD then you pay for that one from March 2011 to March 2012.

nig3d

nope it's not DD, I have the TV license card and I pay online monthly.

davidlizard

Many people have to pay Sky and other providers because the BBC do not cover their viewing requirements. Their sport output is pitiful, their news reporting is biased (see how much climate change, gay rights and multiculturism get over egged at the expense of real news), and the content is dumbed down to 'sleb cooking/dancing type programmes and endless hours of property and antiques type stuff.

If the BBC is so wonderful, then it should go subscription based so those that want it can have it, and those that don't needn't. Lets have some proper choice in what we pay for and watch.

I may pay a lot for Sky, but it works out much better value for money given the amount I watch it compared to BBC where I am unable to recall myself watching anything on it since at least the summer.

le_loup

Clearly you have not discovered BBC4 or Radio4.


.... but, then again, couch sportsmen are rarely involved in anything other than shouting at the referee.

SailorSam

The Bbc aren't just giving us just outstanding television, for example the recent Frozen Planet, but a wonderful radio service. I listen to Local Radio from first thing in the morning and often into the evenings. Has has already been mentioned the Bbc website can often be a first point of call when searching for information on any subject,
Entertaining and educational, well worth a few pounds a week.

katejo

davidlizard wrote: »

Many people have to pay Sky and other providers because the BBC do not cover their viewing requirements. Their sport output is pitiful, their news reporting is biased (see how much climate change, gay rights and multiculturism get over egged at the expense of real news), and the content is dumbed down to 'sleb cooking/dancing type programmes and endless hours of property and antiques type stuff.

If the BBC is so wonderful, then it should go subscription based so those that want it can have it, and those that don't needn't. Lets have some proper choice in what we pay for and watch.

I may pay a lot for Sky, but it works out much better value for money given the amount I watch it compared to BBC where I am unable to recall myself watching anything on it since at least the summer.

There are plenty of good quality documentaries and drama series and, as Le Loup below has said, there is also BBC4 and Radio 4. It is not fair to say that it is all dumbed down. I do have Virgin but only the m+ package.

Gas_Powered_Toothbrush

The TV licence inspectors are employees of a private company and have no more right of entry into your home than any other member of the public who may show up.

davidlizard wrote: »

their news reporting is biased (see how much climate change, gay rights and multiculturism get over egged at the expense of real news)

Please tell us, oh oracle of current affairs, what constitutes 'real news'. And if you think the BBC are biased, they're nothing compared to Sky News.

Mikeyorks

nig3d wrote: »

nope it's not DD, I have the TV license card and I pay online monthly.

Same process as DD. Other than the 1st year - you pay 6 months in arrears / 6 months in advance around the receipt of the new license.
They send you a payment plan ..... worth a read?

jackyann

We pay the licence so that we have public service broadcasting; we don't just pay it as a subscription to the BBC.
I still cling to notions of public service, but like so much, we'll probably only miss it when it is gone (maybe not if Murdoch does a good enough brainwash!)