TV licence thread

[Pyrotequila 401]

They should just make it subscription based like Sky or Virgin, make it so that you need equipment to decrypt the signal or you can't watch. Simple.

 

Apart from the news, I can't remember the last time we watched a single thing on the BBC.

[ECCOnoob 1,020]

15 minutes ago, Pyrotequila said:

They should just make it subscription based like Sky or Virgin, make it so that you need equipment to decrypt the signal or you can't watch. Simple.

 

Apart from the news, I can't remember the last time we watched a single thing on the BBC.

You still need a licence for both of those as well.

 

Any live broadcast television.

 

I've said before many times the BBC could be abolished tomorrow and the government will still find some way of taxing television broadcast.

 

 

 

Edited January 3, 2021 by ECCOnoob

[catmiss 12]

3 hours ago, ivan edake said:

All the BBC have offered over the Xmas period is a mass of repeats, hardly any new programmes at all. They don't even offer a plus one hour channel and they can't even keep to time.Anybody who records a BBC program will be lucky if they get the ending as programmes are often several minutes late finishing.For this abysmal mess we are required by law to pay about £170 per year.It would be nice to know just what The BBC are spending our money on ,it certainly isn't new programmes, it must be on obscene wages to second rate presenters. The BBC is now unfit for purpose and it is time the licence fee was stopped.

I’ve been disappointed with most of the TV programming, the 2 main terrestrial channels having relied on depressing episodes of their respective soaps which seem to have had poor ratings. It may be that Covid has affected the ability to provide the entertainment needed by a nation largely confined to home

[andyofborg 11]

7 hours ago, catmiss said:

I’ve been disappointed with most of the TV programming, the 2 main terrestrial channels having relied on depressing episodes of their respective soaps which seem to have had poor ratings. It may be that Covid has affected the ability to provide the entertainment needed by a nation largely confined to home

New content requires lots of people to produce not just those you see on the screen.  You would need to put the entire cast and crew  in their own bubble and isolate them from the rest of the universe for several weeks, 

 

[Thirsty Relic 209]

6 hours ago, andyofborg said:

New content requires lots of people to produce not just those you see on the screen.  You would need to put the entire cast and crew  in their own bubble and isolate them from the rest of the universe for several weeks, 

 

My understanding is that most "new" programmes and series are "in the can" for many months before being broadcast. TV Channels have lots of new content stored - they just don't air it until they feel the time is right.  Perhaps when they keep hearing complaints about repeats they may decide the time is right,

 

Of course, it's easier and cheaper to put out repeats - and viewing figures show the public watch them.  They also like to do retrospectives  (let's look back at the work of so-and-so and get lots of people whose agents have been pressing us for work to say bits about their memories of them while we show some old footage...), that are cheap to produce and are ratings winners.  Air them as soon as the subject starts being ill, then when they do kick the bucket they can air it again, followed by a tributes programme.

[andyofborg 11]

2 hours ago, Thirsty Relic said:

My understanding is that most "new" programmes and series are "in the can" for many months before being broadcast. TV Channels have lots of new content stored - they just don't air it until they feel the time is right.  Perhaps when they keep hearing complaints about repeats they may decide the time is right,

 

Of course, it's easier and cheaper to put out repeats - and viewing figures show the public watch them.  They also like to do retrospectives  (let's look back at the work of so-and-so and get lots of people whose agents have been pressing us for work to say bits about their memories of them while we show some old footage...), that are cheap to produce and are ratings winners.  Air them as soon as the subject starts being ill, then when they do kick the bucket they can air it again, followed by a tributes programme.

This has been going on since March there is no new content. I imagine content considered unsuitable in March would likely be less suitable now. 

 

 

[Baron99 779]

The Govt has taken the decision not to decriminalise non-payment of the TV licence fee.  The BBC said the current system was the fairest & most effective for licence fee evaders. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55754914#referrer=https://www.google.com&csi=0

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by Baron99

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I read that most of the 'no change, please' responses were from a left-wing group's bulk mailing, though.

[Baron99 779]

Something to interest over 75 licence fee payers? 

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1391162/bbc-bosses-tv-licence-over-75s-figures

 

“There is also evidence that difficult customers are being bought off locally with free licences, even though they don’t qualify for them.'

 

Appears that if you kick off, you might end up with a freebie? 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Baron99

[ukdobby 223]

On 08/09/2020 at 15:32, blackydog said:

I'd prefer to keep the licence fee (albeit cheaper) and keep the BBC ad -free but this is wrong on so many counts. 

 Vanessa Feltz - £355,000-£359,999

source BBC wage bill 2019

She was on ITV this morning asking for privacy about her split!this from someone who told the world about her sex life not long ago.

[fools 447]

On 03/01/2021 at 21:44, Pyrotequila said:

They should just make it subscription based like Sky or Virgin, make it so that you need equipment to decrypt the signal or you can't watch. Simple.

 

Apart from the news, I can't remember the last time we watched a single thing on the BBC.

bad idea. it would make equipment obsolete overnight, leading to a mountain of defunct electrical goods, and increase the countries power consumption as everyone will have to use a stb or hdmi gadget. Simple is to fund it from tax or adverts

 

far too woke nowadays

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2023 by fools

[HumbleNarrator 286]

The BBC needs to stop competing and trying to outdo commercial broadcasters in entertainment.