Problem is it’s not just BBC content, it covers all live tv. So I’m paying sky and the tv license for watching live football.
It's going up £4, that's 33p a month. Hardly the end of the world.over £13 a month an absolute joke. I would rather not watch or listen to any BBC content than pay that
It once had a monopoly and ran all the TV masts, so when any new channels popped up they used the existing equipment.This is what I don't get (and covered above). It covers all live TV but only BBC get the revenue.
How anyone ever passed that as OK is fudgeing deluded.
It's going up £4, that's 33p a month. Hardly the end of the world.
I see they’ve sent Emily Maitlis across the pond on another jolly. Just crazy to me.
That though depends how they change things - the rules around it. Here for example in Australia as I mentioned the public broadcaster gets an amount decided by the government of the day. Taken from income tax income. The amount cannot cover massive “celebrity/expert presenter” salaries, nor to pay for major sporting events.Just to say, I would totally oppose the concept of taking money from the general taxpayer to fund massive salaries to entertainers and sporting etc events.
As long as it’s not mandatory with promise of prison, they can do it however they want.Why not general taxation and the funds directed to different TV companies to make public service programs that are felt necessary?
I don’t personally see the need for public broadcasting.
The problem is that if they do away with the licence fee it's not just the BBC that will suffer. The Guardian will go under as well.
Secondly, I'd happily pay the licence fee if the news at the BBC were actually impartial, but it's not. In the last few years I've noticed a sharp increase in Left-Wing/Remain bias on the BBC news programmes. The TV news has been affected much worse than the Radio News, Radio is still within sight of impartiality at least.
Agree with most of what you said, fixed one bit for you though
I very much resent paying the BBC licence fee for several reasons:
On the blurb I got sent about the licence fee, it states you have to pay it if you watch ANY live broadcast TV, even if its never BBC programming. E.g. If I watch Dave on freeview 24/7 I still have to pay the licence fee? Why? Make's no sense. Or does it go towards general broadcasting infrastructure that all channels use?
Secondly, I'd happily pay the licence fee if the news at the BBC were actually impartial, but it's not. In the last few years I've noticed a sharp increase in right-wing/conservative bias on the BBC news programmes. The TV news has been affected much worse than the Radio News, Radio is still within sight of impartiality at least.
Third, hugely inflated salaries for executives and senior presenters, totally unjustifiable. Why should taxpayers be asked to pay an additional fee to support these outrageous salaries? If the salary is justified, the BBC can collect the funds as a commercial business.
Everyone sees what he wants to see