BBC ditches shows for old people

[Keawyeds]

Instead of Auntie sending round the bully boys and prosecuting single mothers and old people. The BBC could become subscription only. Netflix/Sky/Prime simply switch off people who don't pay. Why cant the BBC?

Here we go again... Because the BBC provide more than just TV, on demand or otherwise.
Also because they've been around for eons and are relied upon still by a generation (or two) who are yet to embrace the digital world or on demand services.

Why would they it's not in their interest to, the BBC is a profit making organisation it's up to them to adapt or die nobody else. The British public owe them nothing.

Well I am grateful for the services they provide and have often relied on them to entertain Mini-K while I somehow achieve a hot cup of tea and an uninterrupted shite

 

[errant]

they'll genuinely ditch the old biddies once they stop showing mrs browns boys...

 

[HettonSAFC]

Didn’t that new controller say if they offered a subscription service instead of a licence it would be about £400 a year and a lot more than Netflix.

Didn’t think he expected everyone to say ‘go on then offer it please’. I for one wouldn’t be subscribing to it.

BBC have no new content. They would simply buy it and charge. News, news, news, repeat, repeat, repeat, news, news. It’s atrocious. 20 years time(hopefully a lot less) it won’t exist.

 

[weebil64]

I think I qualify as old in this context but having nothing said against The Repair Shop - quality watching the skilled workers and how they still have the skills to carry out these repairs

It's descended into a mawkish, emotional gloop. More concerned with the reactions than the process, and it doesn't tell you the cost.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

My old man's mortgage had an interest rate of 15% IIRC in the eighties. How does this compare to now?

That was the 90's, and it was for about 2 months or summat.

 

[Mickdundee]

A point of order to the millennials:

A program is something that instructs an electronic device.

A programme is something on the telly.

Ta.

If I had a decent English teacher at school I might actually know this. He used to just circle stuff with a red pen with no narrative, and if you asked him why he would say “you should already know”.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

You have all the modern buzzwords.

I see nobody has bothered to actually read the words the BBC used in the article instead of the sensationalist headline.
They alway have catered for a wide and diverse audience and continue to do so, including the elderly who, surprisingly enough, don't all have the same tastes.

The OP has history of only looking at the headlines, he’s shot himself in the foot many times

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

The OP has history of only looking at the headlines, he’s shot himself in the foot many times

Surprised he's got any feet left to aim at tbh.

 

[weebil64]

80s day on 6 music today, Wee Papa Girl rappers at the mo......we roool!

 

[SPUFF]

Same. I'm 36 as well and almost never watch traditional channels. Got amazon prime, sometimes have Netflix (then cancel when I've watched everything that takes my interest). Very occasionally watch YouTube documentaries if I go down some sort of rabbit hole. I'd go as far as to say the only thing I watch on normal channels is football (I do try to keep up with the news but normally do it via websites, find reading it easier). Occasionally I might see what films are on in an evening but that's about it.

I'd imagine we're fairly typical for our age. I know my lasses boy (18) watches next to nowt on normal channels as well. Can't imagine they've got a huge audience of actual youngsters (25 and lower) tbh. Quite a lot might watch things on iplayer I suppose, so they'll still look to make programmes for that market, but I think the days of waiting till a specific time to watch something are all but gone, unless it's a series you really want to watch.

And aye, I pay the licence as well. Use the website, use iplayer occasionally, watch footy on it. Don't think it's worth it but I do see the value of a group that will create content for all. But now they suggest they won't. Does make you wonder how long the model is sustainable for

I said this when they banned junkfood ads brfore 9pm.
Kids dont fecking watch telly anyhow!

 

[CissesUnderpants9]

To be honest I think the old people in this country have had it far too good for far too long. They bought up all the property cheap and refuse any measures to alleviate the housing crisis, repeatedly voted for governments that they thought would protect their assets while making life harder for the young, and selfishly inflicted Brexit on the young, knowing full well they will be dead soon yet the young lose their rights to work and live across Europe.

As far as I’m concerned if the the BBC have decided the entitled elderly don’t have yet another crappy bargain hunt / cooking show to watch then boo f***ing hoo.

History will not look back favourably on the boomer generation.

, the truth of it is, television will change with everything else, the internet has been that change, i agree with most of this as you know, however within 5 years it won't matter, because the majority will be subscription based, so the bbc have a choice, start giving a shit about a younger audience right now, or become like the dinosaur extinct.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

, the truth of it is, television will change with everything else, the internet has been that change, i agree with most of this as you know, however within 5 years it won't matter, because the majority will be subscription based, so the bbc have a choice, start giving a shit about a younger audience right now, or become like the dinosaur extinct.

The dinosaurs didn’t stand a chance against whatever wiped them out, it wasn’t from a lack of long term planning.

The equivalent now would be to switch off the world’s electricity supply and expect the BBC to continue broadcasting.

 

[mysticmackem]

My old man's mortgage had an interest rate of 15% IIRC in the eighties. How does this compare to now?

Imagine paying over 18% interest on a 30-year fixed mortgage. It’s almost unthinkable. But that was the reality for home buyers in October 1981 – a year when the average rate was almost 17%.

Unlike today, in the early 1980s, the Federal Reserve was waging a war with inflation. In an effort to tame double-digit inflation, the central bank drove interest rates higher. As a result, mortgage rates topped out at 18.45%.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

Imagine paying over 18% interest on a 30-year fixed mortgage. It’s almost unthinkable. But that was the reality for home buyers in October 1981 – a year when the average rate was almost 17%.

Unlike today, in the early 1980s, the Federal Reserve was waging a war with inflation. In an effort to tame double-digit inflation, the central bank drove interest rates higher. As a result, mortgage rates topped out at 18.45%.

You need to remember that wage inflation was higher too.

Also that houses were less expensive.

A 50k house with a 10% mortgage rate over 25 years would cost less overall than a 100k house with a 5% rate.

A lot of people had interest only endowment mortgages.

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

A lot of people had interest only endowment mortgages.

They were another rip off unless you had the balls to take the providers to court and the brains to beat them . Most of them coughed up most of the money eventually .

 

[Deleted User 11453]

They were another rip off unless you had the balls to take the providers to court and the brains to beat them . Most of them coughed up most of the money eventually .

True but how many people complained when there was a surplus from the investments?

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

True but how many people complained when there was a surplus from the investments?

I never knew anybody who got a surplus . Maybe they did at first, I don't know but by the time most people were paid out they were well short . I didn't have one .

 

[Deleted User 11453]

I never knew anybody who got a surplus . Maybe they did at first, I don't know but by the time most people were paid out they were well short . I didn't have one .

Iirc the ‘scandal’ was from dubious selling practices and high fees.

I started an endowment plan when I was about 21, still living at parental home, I didn’t need the inclusive life cover as I didn’t have any dependents.

I claimed for compensation and did ok out of it, not a massive amount, it was based on average interest rates over the investment period.

 

[mysticmackem]

You need to remember that wage inflation was higher too.

Also that houses were less expensive.

A 50k house with a 10% mortgage rate over 25 years would cost less overall than a 100k house with a 5% rate.

A lot of people had interest only endowment mortgages.

Yes I'm not doubting that. The reply was just to back up the interest rate levels quoted by @Phantom of mobs, that his father was paying.

 

[CissesUnderpants9]

The dinosaurs didn’t stand a chance against whatever wiped them out, it wasn’t from a lack of long term planning.

The equivalent now would be to switch off the world’s electricity supply and expect the BBC to continue broadcasting.

I believe you are speaking of the asteroid that crashed into the earth, exploding on impact, and creating a nuclear winter, which killed everything on the surface of the earth, only leaving alive things that at this point were under the sea, so natural cover, however i believe the internet has already done its explode bit, as we have Netflix and Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc all that will happen, is just continuing what already is, most of the channels have online services already, in 5 to 10 years time, what will be the point of broadcast television if you can get all the content online already ?