Should the TV licence fee be scrapped?

Cornucopia

There are other orchestras though - here and around the World. It's not something special that only the BBC can do.

Zeberdi

To my amazement a large majority on MSE agree that this outrageous and illogical BBC tax should finally be scrapped !
I had assumed their 'brotherly' protection systems would have kicked in and skewed the poll, as it always has previously when laughably reviewed by government over the years.
Will someone who knows how, please start one of those petitions - if 100,000 sign, the government has to debate it ! No Politian will initiate it if they know what's good for them [and they all do !]
The strength of public opinion at the moment over what has come to light might actually break this moribund 'gravy for the boys [and girls] club' that has enriched and protected the sexually predatory 'luvvie' elite for decades, whilst an equally immoral management fraternity agreed to pay each other millions whilst looking the other way for fear of the taps being turned off.

matthewuk

Where is the option to increase the licence fee to make up for Jeremy Hunt's freeze that's occurred (as well as the BBC taking on some of the funding responsibility for S4C). The freeze has amongst other things seen some of the live F1 being in lost by BBC, cuts to local radio evening services, reductions to original programming on BBC ONE, and TWO and so on.

dastep

I voted to scrap the tv license and let them survive with advertisement like all the other broadcasters.

Everyone in the news has been talking hot and heavy about energy companies and how we need an 'even playing field' seeing that this is a mostly 'capitalist' economy, but folks don't seem to see the hypocrisy of turning the other way when it comes to the unfair advantage of dumping all that money into the BBC while the other broadcasters struggle to run private businesses.

For example, our local ITV news used to only cover our region, but because of budget cuts, we have to endure news from Oxford and Southampton while money pours into the BBC.

Others are saying 'hey look at all the cool programs on the BBC compared to other channels', and I say SO WHAT! I don't watch much television anyways, and when I do watch an occasional movie or news story, I would like to not be hogtied and forced into buying a silly, communist license that threatens fine or prison if I don't pay up.

I don't enjoy the constant government endorsed 'nanny state nagging' that peppers many of the programs and slants the stories on the BBC. I am also growing weary of the continual blathering on the BBC about global warming, multiculturalism, food waste, or how me buying a shirt at the Edinburgh Woollen Mills caused the death of thousands of people in Bangladesh.

BBC = Brainwashing Britain Continuously.

Idiophreak

Quite shocked by the results so far.

Seriously, people...have you *seen* Fox news!?

Steve059

dorix wrote: »

Why is it that nobody (including Mr Lewis) ever seems to remember all the six orchestras that they run.To remind you all;BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Big Band which is a Jazz orchestra <snip>

The phrase "concentrating on your core business" immediately springs to mind.

Idiophreak

Steve059 wrote: »

The phrase "concentrating on your core business" immediately springs to mind.

Meh, I think that's the problem...Everyone seems to be focusing on the BBC's core business (TV) and forgetting that it's actually only a fraction of what the BBC actually does...I'm impressed by the amount of stuff the BBC get involved in - and I guarantee I don't know a tenth of it...

Cornucopia

Idiophreak wrote: »

Quite shocked by the results so far.

Seriously, people...have you *seen* Fox news!?

What does this mean? Why would Fox News replace BBC News?

C4 News is widely held to be the best. All done without recourse to Licence Fee funds.

Cornucopia

Idiophreak wrote: »

Meh, I think that's the problem...Everyone seems to be focusing on the BBC's core business (TV) and forgetting that it's actually only a fraction of what the BBC actually does...I'm impressed by the amount of stuff the BBC get involved in - and I guarantee I don't know a tenth of it...

TV accounts for the majority of BBC expenditure. Some of the other stuff looks very much like empire-building. Why did they buy Lonely Planet?

SensiblePerson

"the BBC is really a government conduit for whatever spin they want to put out on any particular story". So says one forumite here. How many times do you hear, on the other hand, that the beeb is full of nothing but lefties. Make your mind up!

The majority in the survey don't want to pay £145 for everything the BBC provides, but are willing to pay twice as much for channels that rarely generate any original material and also contain advertisements (so you're paying twice-over!). Some of these channels wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the original material from the Beeb (eg Dave).

Wise up, for goodness sake, without the BBC our televiewing and radio listening would be vastly impoverished. OK, even the Beeb puts out dross from time-to-time - "Mrs Brown's Boys" for example. Oh no, wait, this is one of the Beebs more popular shows! Says it all, I suppose.