How many of you will take out a bbc subscription?

Yes and the NHS too so they can stop wasting money on Medics and just concentrate on making money for the shareholders.

 

adverts are the main reason for me watching less tv, blooming annoying especially now we’ve gone more Americanised in them being more regularly through programmes

 

For anyone wingeing about the Beeb, we could have an American style public broadcasting instead! Anyone who's spent anytime in the US will know how bloody dreadful that really is.

Please be careful what you wish for! It might come true

 

If you think k about it, the bbc are different to everyone else which is what everyone wants but there’s a move to make it the same as everyone else

I wonder if anyones attacking skys wage structure or perceived bias etc

 

I don't bother with live TV anymore, a one hour program is around 15 mins of adverts. I record loads of programs from Forces TV, ITV3, Sky Arts, Yesterday and so on on my BT TV player and when I want to relax in front of the telly I watch a recorded program and skip the ads.

I've nothing against the Beeb and many of the old programmes I watch came from them but there never seems to be anything I fancy watching when I turn in the TV.

 

That’s an interesting comparison.
A GP earns about £100k.
Nicky Campbell gets about £400k for presenting a breakfast phone in on five live.

I’d prefer x4 more GPs please.

 

you appear to have a very one way biased view, whats the point of quoting wages, i really dont see it as any sort of argument

 

A fair amount of our TV viewing is BBC albeit it on catch up. What I pay for the BBC is a relatively nominal amount ... I suspect the cost will increase and the quality diminish. Dorries wasn't/isn't she the mad MP who appeared on I'm a celebrity. How she got promoted this far I have no idea.

 

The point is that it’s funded by us. You have no choice and you have no say in how it’s spent. You can’t vote out the bbc.

My dad is a pensioner. When covid struck after a few months he called Sky and asked to cancel his sport package as he said he couldn’t justify the monthly subscription when there was no live sport. Sky said well you are a loyal customer so what we will do is not switch off your sports, we won’t charge you for it again until we start live output again. Good luck doing that with the bbc.

people complain there’s not enough new content on the bbc. It’s stuffed full of repeats etc. if they weren’t paying the likes of Zoe ball a million pounds a year for three hours work a day then maybe they’d have some money for better original programming.

 

i really dont care what peoples wages are, i pay money into the nhs, pension etc, i dont expect to have any real say on how the minuscule details of everyday operation goes. everyone has parents and the licence fee was free for pensioners until very recently( no doubt an outcome of the its not fair someone gets something i dont brigade) , the bbc has been around a long time a using one example of sky, slightly reducing their package isnt going to have me believe they are angels that have their customers best at their heart. every channel has repeats is literally what netflix etc is. so without mentioning wages , whats your point ?

 

Same here..
Although the subscriptions aren't cheap....
The Beeb does a reasonable job,
But I don't watch, dancing, moaning,or baking...

 

They will be after you Rusty

 

Keep up the baking is no longer on BBC.

Comparing Sky Sports with BBC is to use that well known phrase like comparing apples to oranges. I suspect Sky Sports offered a covid suspension because by not providing live sport they were breaking the terms of the contract, they probably didn't go handing it out, but offered when asked. There is CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) guidance out there on that. https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...c-consumer-contracts-cancellation-and-refunds

We quite like watching some of the old BBC programmes at the moment we are on series 2 of Death in Paradise and I caught the first episode of one foot in the grave the other day. I had forgotten he was a security guard, there was some fantastic old telephone technology in the first episode as well. Our other favourite is Shetland, cant beat a dour Scottish detective series.

 

For the radio alone, 100% yes

 

My view us leave the bbc alone and exactly as it is . If you dont like the likes if Lineker getting a million quid , dont watch them then they will get dropped . Trouble is he must be popular cause he aint been dropped so he must be worth the money .
The thing is if i werent so lazy to list exactly what you get for the licence fee prople wouldnt complain so much about it . Its a bit of the herd immunity, one person complains then those with no idea join in the complaint totally oblivious of what they are complaining about . I watch very very little tv but get great enjoyment from bbc radio and web pages , i wouldnt pay it but those alone are worth twenty pounds per month to me , but this us where the majority will loose out by being quieter than the ignorant who are pressing for changes but to what they know nothing about or giving as good a value alternative

 

That’s the salary… then there’s the consultancy etc. more private money but undermines the service to some extent!

 

The licence. It costs our household what?…. Just over £3 a week? And there is pretty much something for everyone. The last episode of Line of Duty got 15 million views, Strictly final got somewhere between 11 and 12 million. But it’s not just about the smash hits it’s about the niche content as well. All those channels, you have David Attenborough, you have Fleabag, you have Killing Eve, Wimbledon, great news coverage (unless you subscribe to the view that it’s all biased and lefty and woke - the new catch all insult ), I usually listen to WATO and Evan Davies at 5, all those channels of radio…. All for just over £3 a week? Yes please. My council tax alone is £40 a week. I’ll continue to enjoy the BEEB while it lasts . The fact that a certain section of the Tory party hates it with a vengeance is another tick in the plus column.

 

I feel an email to my MP coming on Lets Keep the BBC as it is.

 

I get that we don’t get a choice whether we pay or not, but I kind of think a National treasure like the BBC is a special case. There’s things that my taxes pay for that I’d quite happily not pay but I don’t get a choice there.

 

This is a good point - it's a tiny total amount and if it came invisibly from taxation we wouldn't be having this discussion. Same could be said for road fund licence too but some government in the past wanted to increase tax take and keep headline tax down - it's just a wheeze someone thought was a good idea at the time.