TV licence thread

[Car Boot 10]

The £154.50 BBC TV Licence fee is nowhere near enough money for the wealthy, anti-working class, metropolitan elite who run the BBC so they are launching a new paid subscription streaming service to beat Netflix and Amazon Prime.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/27/britbox-this-bizarre-netflix-rival-will-surely-bomb

 

 

The BBC TV licence fee - so good the rich men of the BBC want us all to pay it TWICE.

 

Edited February 27, 2019 by Car Boot

[Car Boot 10]

The out of touch, affluent, upper middle class management at the BBC believe that repeats of 'Dad's Army' & 'Doctor Who' (both very good in their 1970's heyday) will be enough to convince people to pay for a subscription to the appallingly named 'Britbox' on top of the compulsory £154.50 BBC TV licence fee.

 

Here's an idea. How about the BBC become entirely voluntary subscription based? 

 

[lottiecass 17]

Britbox  ought to be the last p take from the bbc , now is the time for the bbc to be self funded. What happens to the ad revenue from dave etc ?

[K1Machine 10]

1 hour ago, Car Boot said:

The £154.50 BBC TV Licence fee is nowhere near enough money for the wealthy, anti-working class, metropolitan elite who run the BBC so they are launching a new paid subscription streaming service to beat Netflix and Amazon Prime.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/27/britbox-this-bizarre-netflix-rival-will-surely-bomb

 

 

The BBC TV licence fee - so good the rich men of the BBC want us all to pay it TWICE.

 

[Car Boot 10]

On Monday 1 April 2019 the licence fee increased to £154.50 for a colour licence.

 

Sir David Attenborough, meanwhile,  is about to front a new natural history documentary for Netflix, in the latest example of the streaming company taking on the out of date BBC.

 

Just what is the point of the BBC TV Licence fee in 2019? I don't know anybody who pays it.

[Car Boot 10]

The BBC is just one broadcaster among a great many. Why is it funded by a poll tax when the others are funded by a voluntary subscription or advertising?

 

This is 2019 - NOT 1979!

Edited April 1, 2019 by Car Boot

[hauxwell 243]

The TV Licence should be abolished. The BBC should be looking at other ways of funding this day and age.  

[Vague_Boy 10]

On 01/02/2019 at 20:56, melthebell said:

and more that can be spent on dodgy fags

 

therefore funding criminals and terrorists

I think you need to Google the phrase non sequitur.

 

Maybe the BBC should have an ad campaign based around "Buy a licence.... or the terrorists win". 

 

Personally I've not bought a licence since 2006, which means I've saved about £1800. All quite legally as well.

 

 

[melthebell 863]

46 minutes ago, Vague_Boy said:

I think you need to Google the phrase non sequitur.

 

Maybe the BBC should have an ad campaign based around "Buy a licence.... or the terrorists win". 

 

Personally I've not bought a licence since 2006, which means I've saved about £1800. All quite legally as well.

 

 

i know what i said was in jest, but it was also true, if he doesnt have a tv license then the money saved can buy more dodgy fags, and thus fund dodgy characters

[FinBak 12]

1 hour ago, Vague_Boy said:

I think you need to Google the phrase non sequitur.

 

Maybe the BBC should have an ad campaign based around "Buy a licence.... or the terrorists win". 

 

Personally I've not bought a licence since 2006, which means I've saved about £1800. All quite legally as well.

 

 

What's a TV Licence?.¬!

 

[nikki-red 308]

Discuss the topic not each other please.

[Janus 28]

BBC is to means-test free television licences for the over-75s, restricting them to those who receive pension credit.

 

Comes in to force June 2020.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/10/bbc-link-free-over-75s-tv-licences-pension-credit/


 

Edited June 10, 2019 by Janus