The BBC


Watched something on Netflix the other day and found it infuriating. It was some documentary type thing and it was obviously made by/for some commercial channel.

Every 15mins or so there’d be a recap segment. Dawned on me that this was where the ad breaks were built in.

By the end, I reckon a quarter of the show was recap. This is what commercial telly does to content.
American TV is full of recap segments - just because its cheap as it doesn't require making more content. No comment on the attention span of Americans ;)
 
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Peace and love, happy new year x

I’ve enjoyed the bbc over the festive period 🙂
You should think of those less fortunate than you too though, £16 a month is a lot for some who have to choose between eating and heating. Cold, hungry and nothing to watch either eh.
 
You should think of those less fortunate than you too though, £16 a month is a lot for some who have to choose between eating and heating. Cold, hungry and nothing to watch either eh.
well then they can opt out of watching tv, save on tv licence and electric, feed and heat themselves whilst reading a book that is free to loan from a local library.
 
No need for a tv license to listen to radio but even that us at a minimum. My habits have changed. I should get back to putting radio on.
Whilst that’s true Harry, BBC Radio is still funded from TV licence revenues as are some excellent podcasts that BBC Sounds releases.

Each to their own but I’d much rather pay a licence fee than listen to 20 minutes of annoying ads in every hour.

Love Auntie Beeb and think it’s good value even though I watch very little live TV.

I would like to see them offering free licenses to those who struggle to afford it though but I suppose it would cost more to means test it.
 
Whilst that’s true Harry, BBC Radio is still funded from TV licence revenues as are some excellent podcasts that BBC Sounds releases.

Each to their own but I’d much rather pay a licence fee than listen to 20 minutes of annoying ads in every hour.

Love Auntie Beeb and think it’s good value even though I watch very little live TV.

I would like to see them offering free licenses to those who struggle to afford it though but I suppose it would cost more to means test it.
I have no issue with anyone who thinks BBC is value for money. I don't get value from the service so would happily opt out if it was an option.

I pay more for spotify than I do for BBC and I am happy to pay for a service I use every day.
 
I have no issue with anyone who thinks BBC is value for money. I don't get value from the service so would happily opt out if it was an option.

I pay more for spotify than I do for BBC and I am happy to pay for a service I use every day.

Have a look at Tidal. If the music you like is available there it's a better option if you think streaming services take the piss out of bands etc.
 
You should think of those less fortunate than you too though, £16 a month is a lot for some who have to choose between eating and heating. Cold, hungry and nothing to watch either eh.
For a family entirely on benefits, come to think of it, £13 or so is actually a massive amount.
 
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.
Cost of living tip of the day.

Bin the licence and save yourself a few bob.
 
surely they would want to focus their expenditure on food and heating, rather than wasting it on commercial television using electricity. sticking within the parameters of your impoverished scenario, that is.
They really like the chase, why should they pay the bbc 16 quid to only watch ITV?
 

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