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But that's got nothing to do with getting older their tastes change. They never had a taste for normal TV when they were young so nothing to change. Maybe as they get older their tastes will change to something else , who knows.

Aye but tbh I'd say Live TV is massively geared towards the older nowdays like.

Absolute shit like Masked Dancer etc all middle class woman rubbish, Country File, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadshow all pensioners. Soaps mostly older aswell.

There's very little for younger generations heck they even pulled BBC Three for a bit and moved it all online. Similar to ITV X, Plebs is a prime example, geared for younger audience and that's online exclusive aswell.

I think it's more personal taste than anything. Can't remember the last time I watched TV live tbh.

E4 is the absolute pits of TV now aswell and used to be alright.
 
Aye but tbh I'd say Live TV is massively geared towards the older nowdays like.

Absolute shit like Masked Dancer etc all middle class woman rubbish, Country File, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadshow all pensioners. Soaps mostly older aswell.

There's very little for younger generations heck they even pulled BBC Three for a bit and moved it all online. Similar to ITV X, Plebs is a prime example, geared for younger audience and that's online exclusive aswell.

I think it's more personal taste than anything. Can't remember the last time I watched TV live tbh.

E4 is the absolute pits of TV now aswell and used to be alright.
I'm pretty sure masked dancer has a young following. My wife loves strictly but thinks masked dancer is junk. I doubt it's the middle classes watching those shoes anyway.
Shows not shoes
 
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Generally speaking I find the people who are the most vocal about paying the TV licence don't seem concerned that a sub to Sky costs many times more and is riddled with repeats, some channels showing the same programme more than once during the day. Plus a pay service also ramming ads down your throats every 15 minutes. Plus, plus charging for HD when it's nigh on impossible to find a tv that doesn't support 4k these days.
 
In the T household we’ve used the bbc quite a lot over the turkey-eating season.

I got to thinking about value for money compared to other streaming services and concluded that for us, the bbc is well worth the licence fee.

Watched a lot more than usual terrestrial ‘live’ tv - news, sport, fillums, documentaries, weather.

Radio 2 in the car, Radio 6 in the house.

First website I look at in the morning (sorry RTG!), news, sport, weather, articles. Being an exile if I want avoid the doom and gloom of the match day thread, the bbc page is what I have up.

On iplayer we’ve watched Ghosts, the English, Motherland, Cunk on, Detectorists, Dark Materials, Repair Shop, various fillums, Inside No9, Am I Being Unreasonable, Top Gear, Digging for Britain, MoTD … the list goes on…

Be a shame to lose Auntie Beeb imho, there’s a lot of quality stuff that wouldn’t get commissioned on other platforms.
Just discovered Cunk. Absolutely brilliant.
 
I'm pretty sure masked dancer has a young following. My wife loves strictly but thinks masked dancer is junk. I doubt it's the middle classes watching those shoes anyway.
Shows not shoes

Ah had me confused there, meant to say middle aged women even definitely not middle class. Definitely for the less educated (no bad intentions meant).
 
It doesn't need to go mate just the funding format needs to change. Nobody should be forced to pay for it.

The threatening letters, with the date Capita's TV police are intending to visit, should cease.

I don't watch television. (I have a set, because I wanted to play BOTW on a big screen, but it is not tuned to receive live TV.)

I will never reply to the letters. I will never go online, and advise them I don't require a licence. It's as though someone is writing to me, to instruct me that I need a licence for my monocle. Outdated, and utterly irrelevant to how I live my life.

The letters do piss me off, to the extent that I lean more to wanting the BBC to go under, than see it survive.
 
The BBC is class if you love cooking and antiques/buy sell programmes, and drab dramas. MOTD is about all I go out my way to watch.
 
Bit leftfield, but good news!


I love watching BBC Earth and will miss it when it is gone soon. But it sounds like it will be combined with BBC Brit and that the wonderful nature shows will still be a feature on the new channel.

BritBox became available here last year and I have loved it from the beginning, too. The new BBC Nordic+ streaming site will just make it even better. I know it sounds silly but I cannot wait for this.
 
Personally I like the beeb and happy for it to stay as it is but I can understand why younger people have an issue with paying for content that they don’t want and people struggling financially would prefer to spend their money elsewhere.
I think the closest we will ever get to an impartial news service is priceless. So many people seem to take what they read or hear as fact and if news is all controlled by Rupert murdoch types it would be a disaster.
 
Personally I like the beeb and happy for it to stay as it is but I can understand why younger people have an issue with paying for content that they don’t want and people struggling financially would prefer to spend their money elsewhere.
I think the closest we will ever get to an impartial news service is priceless. So many people seem to take what they read or hear as fact and if news is all controlled by Rupert murdoch types it would be a disaster.
I only watch the BBC for news and I believe what I am being told is true.

However, I am sure there are people in Russia having a similar experience with their broadcasters.
 
I only watch the BBC for news and I believe what I am being told is true.

However, I am sure there are people in Russia having a similar experience with their broadcasters.
Not really, the BBC is a public service broadcaster, in Russia they are Sate broadcasters.
 

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