BBC license fee proposals...

malachi · 6 Sep 2016 at 14:32

Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, Dragons Den's.

.Lethal · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:01

krooton said:
Just looked up all the BBC sitcoms.

The only vaguely recent ones I enjoyed were Some Girls (cheesy), Pramface (cheesy), Outnumbered and Coupling.

4 shows out of 15 years of programming is not a great statistic, lol.

Last thing I use to watch on the BBC was Formula 1 when the season was live for each race, that ended a few years ago

V F · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:02

Tefal said:
Thats how its always been since the invention kf battery powered tvs.

Othwrwise people would just have a tv/batteries watch tv then charge it when not watching

I thought those were called smartphones?

Tefal · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:30

Faustus said:
They may be part of your culture but they will never be part of mine. I retire next week so as you will gather I'm totally the wrong age demographic.

I could sit and watch BBC 4 documentaries from morning until night. I like television that informs and educates me. I'm not much interested in a load of American make believe.

I get that younger people don't understand the slapstick of Mrs Browns Boys and maybe Two Doors Down. Again it's comedy from a different era, but having said that it's very very popular.

Personally I think American imports ruin television but that's my personal opinion. The good ones are few and far between. At the end of the day if we all liked the same things the world would be a very dull place.

One of my smartest moves however was the day I got rid of Sky - I have never regretted it for one minute and neither has my wallet.

Funny thing is americsn programs get accused of bumding down yet the bbc comedy seems lowest common denominater ie slapstick.

Friends is deffinitly a lart of culture now though

Tefal · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:31

413x said:
That's what I say
Schools are needed even if you don't have kids to pay for who will be paying your pension.
Roads. Even if you don't use them it's pretty damn obvious you need them.
Broadcast TV? Not in same boat

How would you say issue an emergancy warning to the population without tv or radio?

Hagar · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:39

Just paid my TV licence for the 32nd consecutive year

Burnsy2023 · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:50

413x said:
That's what I say
Schools are needed even if you don't have kids to pay for who will be paying your pension.
Roads. Even if you don't use them it's pretty damn obvious you need them.
Broadcast TV? Not in same boat

A properly informed public is a requirement for democracy to work properly. I'd say that was a necessity.

SixTwoSix · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:52

Tefal said:
How would you say issue an emergancy warning to the population without tv or radio?

Facebook

pooley · 6 Sep 2016 at 15:59

Burnsy2023 said:
A properly informed public is a requirement for democracy to work properly. I'd say that was a necessity.

if nobody watched, how would they know?

Rroff · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:01

Tefal said:
How would you say issue an emergancy warning to the population without tv or radio?

Do we even have any emergency warning system any more? when I was young there were still ww2 sirens maintained around this area up until I think 1990 or 1991 or something.

Faustus · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:08

mrbell1984 said:
It will be all content no doubt. Hopefully Netflix / Amazon pull out of that content. It's pants anyway!

Each to his own. Personally I reckon the BBC is the best value product in Britain today. Sky has to be the very worst value product by far.

Basher · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:10

Faustus said:
Each to his own. Personally I reckon the BBC is the best value product in Britain today. Sky has to be the very worst value product by far.

And this is just the point. I believe the BBC to be pretty bad value and as a result would like the option to not pay if I don't consume any of their services (but do use other live services). That option does not exist.

Netflix (for me) is MUCH better value and so I continue to pay for it. If it stopped being valuable I would stop paying for it.

Hagar · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:14

Faustus said:
Each to his own. Personally I reckon the BBC is the best value product in Britain today. Sky has to be the very worst value product by far.

Even if i only watch 3-4 hours of licensed programming per week, it is good value. I gain a lot of enjoyment from radio 4 (>1000 hrs per year) which in theory I do not need to pay for however if nobody pays, the quality is bound to suffer.

Faustus · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:14

Basher said:
And this is just the point. I believe the BBC to be pretty bad value and as a result would like the option to not pay if I don't consume any of their services (but do use other live services). That option does not exist.

Netflix (for me) is MUCH better value and so I continue to pay for it. If it stopped being valuable I would stop paying for it.

What about Radio 4? It's worth the £145.50 for that alone surely?

All this bleating and at the end of the day it's only just over a days pay anyway.

StriderX · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:17

Faustus said:
What about Radio 4? It's worth the £145.50 for that alone surely?

Then just make it a bloody council tax addon and stop this nonsense with TVL, i bet they haven't bothered because it would basically make everyone at TVL irrelevant.

Faustus · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:35

StriderX said:
Then just make it a bloody council tax addon and stop this nonsense with TVL, i bet they haven't bothered because it would basically make everyone at TVL irrelevant.

What's it got to do with the council? :confused:

StriderX · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:37

Faustus said:
What's it got to do with the council?

I dunno, increase VAT and use that.

Faustus · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:47

What I don't understand is the people making all this noise about now having to pay the TVL were more than happy to watch iPlayer when it cost them nothing.

Meanwhile the rest of us were funding their free lunch by paying the TVL and have been doing so for years. This anomaly has now been stopped and somehow this is seen as being a disgrace. I must be missing something. :confused:

StriderX · 6 Sep 2016 at 16:49

Faustus said:
What I don't understand is the people making all this noise about now having to pay the TVL were more than happy to watch iPlayer when it cost them nothing.

Meanwhile the rest of us were funding their free lunch by paying the TVL and have been doing so for years. This anomaly has now been stopped and somehow this is seen as being a disgrace. I must be missing something.

Yeah well socialism doesnt work very well.

413x · 6 Sep 2016 at 17:13

Tefal said:
How would you say issue an emergancy warning to the population without tv or radio?

Text message?

Besides broadcast TV is dying. It will take a while but it won't be long until everything is via some form of Internet.

I just don't believe the TV licence nowadays is anything other than to keep a dinosaur afloat