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I’ve had my say and am stepping asideI still resent it. I seem to watch less and less telly every year like. My kids quite possibly watch about 0 hours of live TV too
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I’ve had my say and am stepping asideI still resent it. I seem to watch less and less telly every year like. My kids quite possibly watch about 0 hours of live TV too
Nobody is forced to pay it.
No, you can watch TV for entertainment. Or stroke your pigeons, whatever floats your boat.Aye, can just sit and stroke my pigeons and glare at my ceiling for entertainment.
I can see the “fee” getting added to the countil tax. Sadly.
gut feeling. Think it’s happened in other countries. Hope I’m wrongWhy, Council Tax is a levy based on property valuation. It's got nothing to do with raising money for the BBC.
gut feeling. Think it’s happened in other countries. Hope I’m wrong
Netflix are struggling with their subscription service with people cancellingIn 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.
^^Does watching the BBC make you this educated and fair minded?Tends to be the absolute whoppers on here who hate the BBC/paying the licence fee.
And ant and dec on every channelThis.
I think of the licence fee as simply a general taxation on the existence of a state broadcaster used for public good
Every channel would be like ITV otherwise
How is a subscription model right wing?Netflix are struggling with their subscription service with people cancelling
The model the righties love
That’s funny because the righties think it’s leftyAs much as I think the BBC is often biased towards the right, I think it’s an absolute institution in every other way. Worth the fee alone for Cbeebies.
I’m yet to come across someone who hates the BBC that isn’t an obvious wrang’un
Tories want it for the bbcHow is a subscription model right wing?
It's very odd, the leftists/woke usually hate tradition and want to push forward with what they term progression but for some reason they want the BBC stuck in the 20th century. Weird.How is a subscription model right wing?
Can anyone on this thread explain to me why a discussion about the licence fee has degenerated into a hateful, nasty, ad-hominem fest?
It's got me completely baffled. If supposed grown ups can get so riled up about a subject like that then they need to grow the fck up and get some perspective.
This place is seriously going down the tubes because of posters who can't have rational and calm discussions. It's OK to disagree without being vile to each other...
Apologies if I've said anything vile, I hope I haven't but social media etc does tend to polarise behaviour and make sensible debacle less common.
As my favourite songwriter Jeff Tweedy said recently "there's no middle when the other side would rather kill than compromise"
No, mate, there's been a couple of posters who've behaved very badly. One pissed me off enough to request the mods to remove it, even though it wasn't aimed at me. I hope the poster gets a ban...
You are brainwashed by right wing bullshitIt's very odd, the leftists/woke usually hate tradition and want to push forward with what they term progression but for some reason they want the BBC stuck in the 20th century. Weird.