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County Radio Coverage
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mackembhoy
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So the BBC needs a massive overhaul but you don't watch films?
The whole reason people are going in for the licence fee is Netflix and Amazon prime. Which is for film and series watching.
So i'm intrigued into why you think this. Seeing as a cricket fan surely has used the BBC for decades, you've got your value for money just from that.
He thinks it has a left wing bias and is full of liberal luvvies. All fascists do.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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I think it should be subscription based. People shouldn't be forced to pay for a service they may not use. As for the county radio coverage, I hardly ever use it. If I'm not at a game I'm usually at work and would watch an online stream provided by the clubs. The wife pays £3.99 a month for Amazon Prime and about £6 a month for Netflix. The BBC licence fee I am forced to pay is £13 a month and it's not really something I use very often. Maybe their online content should be subscription based.
Bri
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Jesus!
Sounds like something the BBC would do. Pick something good and get rid of it, even though it only costs coppers to run.
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mackembhoy
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How would that work. You'd have to block every car radio and tv set in the country so you cant access any BBC content unless you pay into it.
What about all the people employed by the BBC. The local journalists, the ones reporting from conflict zones etc. Be mass job losses and news wouldn't be reported across the country/globe in the same way.
Netflix and Amazon have court reporters and war reporters and local journalists don't they? So they can just get jobs there instead.
Sky news in only free because of all the people who pay for sky tv/broadband etc for it subsidise it. ITV via adverts ditto channel 4.
Be hell on if they all started charging a monthly fee, but the BBC needs a to scrap the licence fee, which is infinitely cheaper than sky.
Where despite maybe not so much now you've benefitted from BBC cricket tv and radio coverage for decades.
I'm only 27 and only paid directly for licence fees for about 3 years. But benefitted from them my whole life.
Anyway it's a cricket forum and that's my lot.
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wayne entwhistle no9
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For all you techno experts out there why are some counties in house championship TV coverage available via you tube and some not. Do they have to pay for it?
I find it so much better watching it on the TV via you tube than on a lap top screen.
I find it so much better watching it on the TV via you tube than on a lap top screen.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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Yes but I don't believe it's fair to force a fee onto people. It won't be an easy thing to do hence I mentioned a subscription based payment for their online service. Just doesn't sit right with me forcing a fee onto people when really it's a service you don't have to use.
Bri
Striker
You make some good points but the purpose of the BBC is not to employ journalists. That's a rabbit hole.
brandon
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Great point. I’d be willing to stump up for a subscription to BBC’s cricket coverage if that’s what it got to. Both TMS and the County coverage.
Yeah but not many would and they’d quickly have to bin it imo.
The BBC is able to cater for niche interests under the current model, can’t see how anyone else would.
Bri
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He did. He talked about "what about the journalists employed".
Bri
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Not if that's the reason given for keeping something going which otherwise would close.
As it happens I'm on the fence on this issue. I can see that there is some public good in taxpayers money going towards local news and radio but it's also true that the BBC is not what it was, that it doesn't have the same status as it did 20 years ago, that quality of programmes is higher on the new platforms.
All broadcasters have a legal duty for impartiality, all fail but also I don't see how it is even possible to achieve it.
I simply dont believe the vast majority of loud mouths on twitter who claim never to use the service. When you consider what you pay for Netflix and then the BBC content there is simply no comparison in what is the best value for money. The BBC is the greatest broadcasting institution in the world bar none
Scotty 1978
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Radio Newcastle are stopping there medium wave frequency soon
Steak Pie
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Of course they don't. The people who complain about the BBC are usually ignorant of all the stuff it does, and it's always telling to look at they type of person who wants to scrap it. Try and explain the concept of the licence fee just as a form of indirect taxation, heads will explode (figuratively).
Just absorb the licence fee into NI or tax. Or just change the name to "infrastructure services charge".
They’ve won the brexit and now the bbc is the next bogeyman
the Tories have specialised in removing what they perceive as enemies one by one since the 70s.
its only going to increase in time, with the best wishes of the public who voted for them
pesky red tape is another which will be along soon. Like paid sickness and holiday breaks. Elf and safety they mock, we don’t need it.
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The Hesford Diet
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Some people need overhauling far more than the BBC.
It's not just Saturday night viewing. The hundreds of hours of educational content. Pre-school disabled children learning sign language? Where else is that available?
So much groundbreaking wildlife programmes. Documentaries that give insight as well as entertainment. Radio stations up and down the UK, local and national. A website rightly considered one of the best on the globe.
For £12.50 a month it pisses over any pay tv provider, just as TMS pisses over talksport. Anyone who wants rid of it because the news doesn't tell them what they want to hear needs their head examined.
It's not just Saturday night viewing. The hundreds of hours of educational content. Pre-school disabled children learning sign language? Where else is that available?
So much groundbreaking wildlife programmes. Documentaries that give insight as well as entertainment. Radio stations up and down the UK, local and national. A website rightly considered one of the best on the globe.
For £12.50 a month it pisses over any pay tv provider, just as TMS pisses over talksport. Anyone who wants rid of it because the news doesn't tell them what they want to hear needs their head examined.
