Good. Currently I'm forced to pay for content I dont consume.
Mate, you're going to spit blood when you hear about all the roads, hospitals and armed forces you're paying for but not directly using.
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
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Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#22The following pretty much lays out the mentality behind the cuts: "The source added that 'the days of state-run TV are over' and praised the growth of US-run companies such as Netflix and YouTube." Yes, let's run to our algorithmically run and siloed future.
Nothing to do with stuff like this: Michael Fabricant, the Conservative MP for Lichfield, has said that the BBC has launched a “coup attempt” against Boris Johnson after hearing a news bulletin which criticised the PM over lockdown parties held at No. 10. Speaking yesterday, Mr Fabricant said: “BBC Radio 4 Bulletin leads this morning with a manufactured story of what some MPs have said to the BBC. This is not news re…
Is there any irony is his surname?
Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#23I remember receiving a fair amount of threatening letters about the TV licence as a student, shortly after I moved out of my parents place to attend university.
It was extremely confusing and made me a little anxious.
Not only did I not own a TV or watch TV of any kind, even online, any effort to make this clear fell on deaf ears and the threatening letters continued.
Eventually it became normality and I learned to drone them out of my conscience but it was such a strange concept to me back then. I'm just thankful I never got anyone knocking on my door demanding to check my room.
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#24Some trivia: TV detector vans https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowle...
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#25I like much of what the BBC do and produce, especially BBC news, but the licence fee has always felt like a relic from the past with a bad strategy of enforcement (With their threatening letters and misguiding terminology as to when a license is required). Their actual broadcast service is lacking in some areas too. On BBC One HD I still get a blank place-holder screen for local news, advising to switch to the non-HD…
I think a lot of the problem is the aged technology where the regional news is routed via each region. Even just upscaling the local output requires massive changes, and any money for Engineering is rarely invested in old fashioned technology like over the air broadcasting, There's then the spectrum costs, especially on satellite, to broadcast an extra 13 HD channels.
I'd be happy with upscaling but sure, can understand that may be difficult. I haven't renewed my license in a while but every-time I visit my parents they're watching the non-HD channels due to not getting the local news on HD.
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#26I have issues with the BBC - especially its partisan news reporting on the current government and its performance during the Scottish independence referendum, but would still like it to exist
I find BBC drama is consistently of a high quality - and unlike the paid services i can watch 6 episodes and its pretty much ended. Everything on netflix/prime is like 10 seasons of 20 episodes
Sad times - but im sure Rupert Murdoch will be happy
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#27The BBC's version of the article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60014514 . > The BBC has declined to comment. Nothing more BBC than the BBC writing an article about the BBC saying that the BBC haven't commented.
>Nothing more BBC than the BBC writing an article about the BBC saying that the BBC haven't commented.
Could've ended with "other news organizations are available".
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#28One of the great things of the Licence fee was that the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly.
In places like Spain the national TV(and regional TV too) becomes a propaganda machine for the exclusive service of the Government(s, national and regional).
It is awful to have your taxes redirected for the private interest of the Party in charge.
In fact with the crisis and private TV also being subsidized, the Media is being captured like the Gramma, Pravda, or Global Times, when the government never can go wrong or do mistakes.
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#29>> Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content. Perhaps it's time for the BBC to "beg for money" from the government every 4 years and do something in exchange for that(i.e. less critical to gov actions, more propaganda etc).
So they become state tv? Then why have them at all? Why not call it TV?
State TVs don't necessarily represent the current party. I've seen plenty of examples of state TVs siding with the opposition in various countries.
Media and journalists mostly have a left bias and when there is a right government they won't side with the government, unless the government is a de facto dictatorship and you can't go against it for safety concerns (Russia comes to mind).
Not that I justify state TVs at all - I'm against all forms of taxation - but bias is not one of the issues imho.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing to do with stuff like this: Michael Fabricant, the Conservative MP for Lichfield, has said that the BBC has launched a “coup attempt” against Boris Johnson after hearing a news bulletin which criticised the PM over lockdown parties held at No. 10. Speaking yesterday, Mr Fabricant said: “BBC Radio 4 Bulletin leads this morning with a manufactured story of what some MPs have said to the BBC. This is not news re…
Is there any irony is his surname?
I legitimately thought I was looking at a parody when I first saw a still from a TV interview of him