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Don't watch live BBC TV if you don't want to fund BBC. Simple.
FTFY
What do you think you "fixed" ?
It's nothing to do with wether you watch BBC or not.
It's just about watching (or recording) live TV. (From any provider)
My mate works at the BBC, they have free biscuits in every meeting, quality ones too, no own brand rich tea rubbish.
I would genuinely be happy to pay the licence fee for Radio 4 alone. Yes there is a load of tosh on the BBC but I simply don't watch it or listen to it. There is still plenty of great quality stuff.
I'd like someone to show me another channel that comes anywhere close to the BBC. Everything else is 99% dumbed down drivel.
Try watching this for a good reminder of what the BBC has given us over the years. [url]
I was sat in a hospital waiting room watching some 3rd rate commercial breakfast news programme here in Oz last year, it was a vehicle for product placement with only a thin veil for the most stupid that "news story" about a miracle drug that makes you thin and cures diseases that only actually occur in cats and only costs $59.95 if bought today.
A strong independent BBC producing what is still regarded worldwide as quality output is important.
Compared to the cost of Sky (which also has adverts) and the crap elsewhere it's in the top 5 list of things I really miss from the UK.
my mate works at the BBC, they have free biscuits in every meeting, quality ones too, no own brand rich tea rubbish.
BBC branded biscuits. Now that would be a waste of the licence fee.;-)
More than happy to pay. Radio 6 and the recent Olympics coverage were worth the money on their own.
What about an internet levy to fund the BBC? Fewer and fewer people watch TV through an aerial but still watch the beeb's programing...
My mate works at the BBC, they have free biscuits in every meeting, quality ones too, no own brand rich tea rubbish.
He's obviously middle management, deputy head of chair straightening?
Personally, if they don't transmit the second series of "The Village" soon, I might write a strongly-worded letter of complaint to Paul Dacre.
recent Olympics coverage were worth the money on their own.
The sports footage is provided by the olympics themselves, the commentary and analysis was, with the odd exception, largely awful.
I used to head back to the UK with the idea of spending a couple of hours just enjoying being able to watch decent TV, in English. And every time it was a disappointment.
The vast majority of the time it seems to be celebrity chefs, people dancing, or snooker - fine if that's what you want, but hardly groundbreaking. American TV produces far better sitcoms and series, and while BBC News is fine, it's nothing special (at least compared to the Spanish news, similar quality).
Well 6music and World Service got saved, while BBC3 got axed.
BBC4 and the radio is what I use but as long as the innovations, like playlister, keep coming i'm happy.
Edit My £100+ quid was worth it to listen to John Cooper Clarke, watch Sherlock and download podcasts where I can learn how debate, not argue by ,listening to people much cleverer than myself.
A theory inversely applied to STW 🙂
Sorry.
Just realised this is part of a Woppit blanket trolling campaign.
cbeebies and cbbc is a step above any other childrens programming content from other channels - and there's no adverts
The vast majority of the time it seems to be celebrity chefs, people dancing, or snooker - fine if that's what you want, but hardly groundbreaking. American TV produces far better sitcoms and series, and while BBC News is fine, it's nothing special (at least compared to the Spanish news, similar quality).
Not surprising that American companies can produce a high standard of product. Their budgets are huge as is the potential audience.
If all you can see are cooking, dancing and snooker then you're obviously looking in the wrong places.
I don't watch a huge amount of stuff on the BBC these days, but I can't imagine a commercial company producing stuff like the Adventure Show or showing half the stuff that BBC4 airs.
Peston on the budget - aaagggghhh. Where is dear Steph when you want her!!!!
Davies on the radio from Newcastle (R4) was somewhere in between this morning. Still 400k from JPM is better than 120k from Auntie I guess....
I don't watch a huge amount of stuff on the BBC these days, but I can't imagine a commercial company producing stuff like the Adventure Show or showing half the stuff that BBC4 airs.
Agreed. See also the recent series of Lost Kingdoms, superb science stuff such as Light and Dark (Recent stuff from Jim Al-Khalili), etc.
As before, it's a bargain.
Everyones banging on about the telly, but the radio is worth the license fee alone. I listen to Radio 4, Five Live or Six Music pretty much all day. If you're in any doubt about this then listen to any commercial radio station for more than an hour. Go on. I dare you…
And come back and tell me its comparable. Oh… you won't be able to. Because within 15 minutes you'll have dashed your own brains out with a pointy rock rather than listen to another second of it. I know you're a free-market evangelist Wopster, but listening to commercial radio (that the divine, all-powerful 'market' has benevolently delivered) is like listening to the sound of a mental person screaming into a shipping container through a loudhailer. With some adverts..
Quite.
I do so hate to agree with you Binners, but I shall.
Oh, and can I add that I'd happily pay my license fee for TMS alone. 🙂
Anyone with kids will vouch for the fantastic quality of CBeebis and CBBC. Stuff like Horrible Histories and the genius of
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Binners listens to Radio 4?
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If all you can see are cooking, dancing and snooker then you're obviously looking in the wrong places.I don't watch a huge amount of stuff on the BBC these days, but I can't imagine a commercial company producing stuff like the Adventure Show or showing half the stuff that BBC4 airs.
Probably, I don't return to the UK that often, and when I do I don't spend that much time in front of the TV. It's quite possible there are a few gems hidden in the rest of the crap.
Not seen the Adventure Show, but if Wiki/Google is to believed it's certainly a programme commercial companies could produce - "Desafío extremo" for example, is fairly similar.
(What I find I do miss from British TV is the British sense of humour - but that's not a quality thing, though).
Oh go on then. 😀
People who don't have a licence but watch the iPlayer:
Parasites.
People who don't have a television or a licence but watch the iPlayer:
Parasites who's kids are being bullied at school.
mogrim - let me get this right - you're rarely in the UK, so don't pay the license fee anyway? And when you are in the UK you don't watch much telly.
Thanks for your qualified input that its all crap 😆
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I am not sure why, but I found [s]mr blobby's[/s] Noel Edmonds' admission that he doesn't have a licence rather funny (in an ironic kind of way)
Did he mention if he'd been quoted a price?
He was "banking" on not getting caught??
There was a biography of Noel Edmunds published a few years ago.
Well worth a read if you can get hold of a copy.
Not a nice man, no one has decent word to say about him.
binners - Member
mogrim - let me get this right - you're rarely in the UK, so don't pay the license fee anyway? And when you are in the UK you don't watch much telly.Thanks for your qualified input that its all crap
😀 - it's the STW way.
However it is qualified - I head back to the UK every now and then, switch the TV on hoping to bask in the glory of great BBC programming, think this is crap and switch it off again. It's happened often enough I feel my comment is valid. I've also started watching it on some vaguely pirate channel over t'internet. But without paying, of course, and only Top Gear 🙂