TV Licence debate.

Thehooperman

Well-Known Forumite
I have no particular preference to any TV organisation or means of viewing but I appreciate the significant contribution the BBC makes to the overall entertainment business.

So whilst you don't need a licence to listen to BBC radio channels circa a quarter of the TV licence fee goes to BBC radio and BBC world service. Are you saying those that oppose paying the fee never put their radio on in their car for example?

Not to mention the number of BBC programmes that subsequently get repeated on subscription channels.

Think of what we would lose if the income to support the BBC were lost or commercialised.
 

Thehooperman

Well-Known Forumite
BBC says -

On an individual basis, your monthly licence fee (£12.54 per household) is spent as follows:
  • Television: £6.92
  • Radio: £2.17
  • BBC World Service: £1.24
  • Other services and production costs: £0.80
  • BBC Online: £1.08
  • Licence fee collection and other costs: £0.33
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/...es-each-bbc-tv-and-radio-channel-cost-to-run/

Those were the numbers I was basing my "circa quarter of the fee goes to BBC radio the world service" on but I got them from a different source.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
As far as radio stations go, the ones that cost the most money to run also have the lowest cost per listener, in general.

How you look at the costs of these things depends on the attitude of the bean counter presenting the figures.
 

BobClay

Well-Known Forumite
There was a time when the BBC World Service on Short Wave was the worlds standard for news and I know this from direct experience. Alas it was cut to the bone years ago and now the Short Wave is pretty much a Chinese domain, with a few 'Brother Nutjob' US stations preaching fire and brimstone !!
 

kyoto49

Well-Known Forumite
One day the BBC will be gone and broadly, people out there and not necessarily people on here, people will wonder where our outlets for scripts, performers, music and comedy are. Where they are allowed to be nurtured and not pulled mid season because the figures weren't as expected. Where world beating documentaries are allowed a home. Where that niche country music series is, or that hour long discussion on krautrock is to be broadcast. Where the weather and local news are, where the world news is. People will wonder where they can hear and see The Proms, where the next Bowie, Bolan, Sex Pistols and Queen can be heard.
The next Attenborough, Jed Mercurio or even Michael McEntire.
My point is, the BBC might not serve you all you want, but the places you get what you want will have been influenced, guided or had their start on the BBC. Yes the BBC get it wrong, some say there is a left wing bias and some say their is a right wing bias with the editorial decisions of Newsnight and QT.
I think the world, television and radio, the web and learning, will be much darker with the eradication of the BBC as some suggest. If it went to a fully commercial entity, the mail and sky would cry foul due to their power and presence. Subscription may be the way forward, if it goes that route, sadly I feel we will lose most of radio, certainly local radio, and also the beautiful BBC4.
I stress again, this isn’t aimed at “you”, its my view and although you might not like examples, they are just examples, of which there are others.

I think you are misunderstanding my point. Beyond the bias, I broadly agree that the BBC does lots of things well. What I can't find one iota of support for is the compulsory payment I have to make for something I don't want or use. Is that really difficult for you to grasp?
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I think you are misunderstanding my point. Beyond the bias, I broadly agree that the BBC does lots of things well. What I can't find one iota of support for is the compulsory payment I have to make for something I don't want or use. Is that really difficult for you to grasp?
I don’t think I could stress more that it wasnt about you.
 
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