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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
#122I’m not sure how much cut through this has had outside of the UK, but the government are currently in serious trouble because of constant leaks about parties in Number 10 Downing Street during the pandemic - including a particularly poorly timed one the day before the Queen was photographed at her husband’s funeral alone. The leaks are ongoing, so we know that this particular plan is part of “Operation Red Meat”, whi…
Only to answer your question about the party scandals - it totally made its way across the Atlantic. The severity of the scandal has been stated but is not obvious (Boris May lose his prime ministership over this ?) However, it was drowned out by the ouster of Phillip.
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Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does this work with radio?
Is radio covered by the license? But on a technical level it should be possible with DAB which actually has some adoption in the UK unlike most other countries.
Restricting DAB reception would be pointless unless they also turned off all non-digital am/fm broadcasts, which I think is unlikely.
I believe there was once a separate BBC radio license, but they gave up on that long ago. So now BBC radio is financed from the TV licence fee, but there's no requirement to have a TV licence to listen to radio.
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#125I 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 d…
One friend at uni had his TV with him, but refused to pay the license fee, completely ignoring the numerous letters we all received. A couple of other friends in our halls hid it whilst he was gone for the holidays and left a fake letter informing him it had been confiscated for non-compliance. Very amusing (for everyone else) when he returned!
Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#126The death of over of the last great British institutions
Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#127I’m not sure how much cut through this has had outside of the UK, but the government are currently in serious trouble because of constant leaks about parties in Number 10 Downing Street during the pandemic - including a particularly poorly timed one the day before the Queen was photographed at her husband’s funeral alone. The leaks are ongoing, so we know that this particular plan is part of “Operation Red Meat”, whi…
Your comment does't make any sense. You are saying that the Conservative party are making this huge change to distract from their current problems. Are you saying they created the entire plan in a few weeks? Do you have any evidence for your extraordinary claims?
This is relatively normal standard operating procedure for this Government.
Throw out loads of policies at the exact moment something bad for the cabinet is starting to gain traction.
Re: BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is radio covered by the license? But on a technical level it should be possible with DAB which actually has some adoption in the UK unlike most other countries.
Restricting DAB reception would be pointless unless they also turned off all non-digital am/fm broadcasts, which I think is unlikely. I believe there was once a separate BBC radio license, but they gave up on that long ago. So now BBC radio is financed from the TV licence fee, but there's no requirement to have a TV licence to listen to radio.
The license fee used to solely be for radio - prior to TV being widespread.
There's an argument that the same shift should happen to be an internet license, but the idea has never got off the ground.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peak BBC is making a story about the BBC headline news on the BBC news website. As if anyone else cared when they opened their new offices. I’ve never really understood the rage the licence fee provokes in a certain type of voter and I have little faith that any replacement proposed by this government will be an improvement.
In the 70s and 80s there was little entertainment other than real time broadcast TV on the 3 (later 4) channels. The BBC was a cultural institution. 20 million people would tune in to watch absolute crap, because that was really the only option other than go to the pub or play cards. Places like the BBC Television Centre were engrained in the public zeitgest, and thus newsworthy. This clearly isn't the case any more,…
> In the 70s and 80s there was little entertainment other than real time broadcast TV on the 3 (later 4) channels.
Pretty sure people had books, radio, theatre, cinema, etc, in the 70s and 80s.
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#130Good. Currently I'm forced to pay for content I dont consume.
You don't pay because you watch it. You pay so other people have some access to actual information so that we can have a functioning democracy and society. If you don't want those things, move to a failed state somewhere. If you do, pay up and get over yourself.