BBC license fee proposals...

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What an absolute joke.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...oadcaster-charter_uk_5734223be4b01359f6866d69

The licence fee, currently £145.50 a year, will run for another 11 years and rise in line with inflation from 2017 until 2022

BBC stars earning over £450,000 will be forced to reveal their salaries but the corporation won’t be required to adjust its schedules or ‘top slice’ the licence fee to other broadcasters, the Government announced today.

So not only are they raising the fee, they're not even distributing this between other broadcasters?? What gives them the right? Why can't they be independant and just compete with other broadcasters?

...but this just takes the cake...

Ministers are closing a loophole that meant Brits could previously avoid paying the licence fee by only watching programmes on iPlayer, extending the licence to include all catch-up services.

Absolute criminals, how is this legal? Why is the government helping enforce this?? How will this even be monitored? How can they either prove or disprove that I am/not watching catch up services? Or even watching live BBC TV for that matter? The whole thing is a complete farce.

They will also order an increase in the annual fee, seeing the current amount of £145.50 rise in line with inflation from 2017 until 2022.

**** off!

The problem is 99% of people will blindly just pay this fee without question, and those that don't have 'enforcers' come knocking on the door using scare tactics to make them pay.

The whole BBC as a whole needs to die, corrupt *** If you feel you must swear, please star out the entire word, not just parts of it. Thank you ***.

Discuss.

 

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Nothings really changed has it?

Only difference seems to be that you'll need a licence to watch iplayer which seems fair enough, the content isn't free to make and there are other ways of watching it if you are that way inclined.

Nothing fair about it. 4od, 5 on demand, itv player...ALL free

All independant broadcasters not getting a penny from the tax payer, see my point?

I don't get your rage, why do you expect that because you can currently watch BBC programmes on catch up for free that you should continue to do so? Why should catch up be free? Why should licence payers pick up the tab for you?

See above.

No one is FORCED to watch TV. Don't watch it and don't pay it. Simplez.

Not that simple, even if you decide to not watch BBC programming, this can neither be proved or disproved leading to all sorts of trouble, i.e. visits from enforcers, letters... you name.

 

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Never paid it, never going to pay it.

/meh

Keep it up.

Does this only apply to iPlayer? And nothing like SkyGO / Now TV (excluding the live channels).

Yes, however the problem rests with proving that you are not using iPlayer, which to me can neither be proved or disproved.

 

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So you want BBC to be ad funded?

Yes, and if they can't stand up on their own two feet and burn to the ground, then thats fine by me.

It's been locked for a few years now which means it's been less and less every year. It's rising in line with inflation.

Your making it out like they've been us doing us a favour all these years.

 

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I agree that they should be de-funded and set free into the greater market, they lost my license when there news section became a biased joke.

I now don't use the TV to connect to any live services and I don't even use iPlayer as they dont produce anything I feel is worth watching now.

Good man.

Have you had any problems? People from 'tv licensing' knocking on your door?

 

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Ah yes, great point. I dont want to pay for BBC content so I should not watch anything on television ever as a result. ITS SO SIMPLE!

I dont feel like subscribing to The Guardian's website but I am still free to use other parts of the internet free of charge, why are the BBC allowed to monopolise an entire industry of which they themselves are only a relatively small part?

Exactly.

So are they going to make it so you get an account to access the iPlayer content, or just go down the "if you own a device that can receive BBC content then you need a licence", which would pretty much mean every person with a phone would require a licence...

This is why the model is completely flawed. There is no tell tale way of finding for sure who's using iplayer or not, unless as mentioned above, they make you sign in using a unique bbc to license number.

now that tg has gone there is nothing left anyway.

Yep, only program I looked forward to from the BBC, literally zero incentive for me to pay it.

 

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All this fuss over £145, just pay it and stop being silly.

Please go.

I will pay whatever just to keep adverts off the BBC. £145 is chump change so I couldn't care less.

And herein lies the problem, just paying it without question. Smh.

 

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Any live stream broadcasting a TV channel requires a licence.

Not true, this is limited to BBC content only.

If am wrong, how is this justified? The license fee goes straight to the BBC and is not shared between other broadcasters.

 

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Gotta love licence fee rage, why not direct it to more worthy causes like car insurance

Because unlike the license fee, I am legally obligated to have car insurance.

 

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Are you one of theses people who also believes they shouldn't pay for their water bill too?

No, because I actually use water?

What a ridiculous comparison.

This.