TV Licence Super Thread
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Soldato
Still waiting for our visit 
Keep getting all the scary notes to "the occupier" – been promised a visit three times now, but the dates come and go boooo!
Keep getting all the scary notes to "the occupier" – been promised a visit three times now, but the dates come and go boooo!Well, it means they value at least a part of the BBC, surely?
It's a one off event, after this it goes back to people dancing on ice.
And if you watch TV you're forced to pay for the BBC coverage, so you might as well watch it... it's not an endorsement of it. Without the TV licence people would have just watched it on ITV.
Strikes me the tv license inspectors should have been out last night looking for infractions .. similarly for up coming world cup and olympics.
I thought the ITV coverage was better lesataways the tactical analysis made by the female England (?) player seemed very concise, versus the BBC,
where you listen to Lineker and think is he really worth all that license payer money.
I thought the ITV coverage was better lesataways the tactical analysis made by the female England (?) player seemed very concise, versus the BBC,
where you listen to Lineker and think is he really worth all that license payer money.
Yep, this. I just don't watch the BBC anymore as there is nothing that interests me. I did watch the Euro's on it but would happily have paid a small one-off fee just for that, or watched it on another channel. But despite not watching it I have to pay the license fee to watch a competitors channel. I find it quite sickening how much some of the BBC staff get paid. Does Gary Lineker really justify his £1.75m wage? His salary alone is 11,000 people's license fees! 11,000 people have to buy a license before Lineker will get out of bed. Zoe Ball is another 8500 license fees, etc, etc, all while the BBC are now making pensioners buy a license too. Surely they could easily find someone 80% as good for 20% that cost?
You're right that it's a one-off event, but I would say the viewing figures show that the BBC content for the Euro's was MUCH better. Linekar is a large part of this, and you have to pay the big bucks to get the big names that are any good at presenting.
I suspect it's because ITV ran adverts in between play, which is what pretty much every TV channel has to do to stay operational... with the exception of the BBC of course who get everything paid for them.
The choice is watch TV adverts, or don't watch TV adverts as you've already been forced to pay for the BBC funding, this is why the BBC had much bigger viewing figures.
If the BBC operated on a fair playing field like the other media companies, with funding from adverts and/or subscription, then the viewing figures would be drastically different.
Maybe, or it could be that the commentary staff for ITV are terrible.
The BBC is one big money racket. They stopped focusing on producing decent content years ago, they're only interested in pushing their somewhat left of centre views on the audience now.
I stopped by just to have a quick browse through on iPlayer earlier and it's like a mix of trashy ITV programming and things that wouldn't look out of place on the homepage of the LGBT/BAME headquarters if such a thing even existed.
Soldato
I just watched a clip saying that this year, 2020-2021 the BBC have lost 700,000 license payers. 700k is a lot to lose, especially when you consider that there has been a lockdown and this time period, would be the time when people would expect people to be watching TV. Maybe it's caused by the far left politics they have been trying to ram down your throat at every opportunity. Maybe because they only make rubbish these days. I can't remember the last time I saw something good on the BBC.
I've no idea where 700k came from. Approx. 1.7m people (up from 1.5m) do not pay. That is less than 0.3%, or basically, in any other world, a rounding error.
Associate
Can't stand the BBC (Biased Broadcast Company), most programs are boring drivel or total box ticking trash, sometimes a mixture of the two. Bullying pensioners to get a TV license, and the protecting of paedphiles.
Soldato
Admittedly it's the Express.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...ee-how-many-people-pay-drop-bbc-annual-report
You should post this in the Daily Mail comments section. You’d be a hero.
Associate
it would probably get filtered out.Ah sorry I don't subscribe to MSM.
I gave up on TV after the 2014 World Cup and haven't missed it for a second.
One year I had friends around for New Year's Eve and they were wanting the TV on at midnight and I just had to apologize (it's prerecorded anyway).
With the money saved I could buy a nice new OLED "monitor" now. To me that's much better value than funding the rubbish on BBC.
One year I had friends around for New Year's Eve and they were wanting the TV on at midnight and I just had to apologize (it's prerecorded anyway).
With the money saved I could buy a nice new OLED "monitor" now. To me that's much better value than funding the rubbish on BBC.
... tight call between tv/bbc & netflix's woke/formulaic junk instead - crown, Bridgerton, ... sex education.....
variety is the spice of life on football commentary - there are only so many cliches Lineker & co know, it becomes formulaic like listening to Coulthard and his side-kick for F1 ...
or Boris.
well the channel4 news is usually more balanced than bbc news, so I watch it inspite of adverts;
variety is the spice of life on football commentary - there are only so many cliches Lineker & co know, it becomes formulaic like listening to Coulthard and his side-kick for F1 ...
or Boris.