shoemaker666
Distinguished Member
indeed at £13 a month its already not competitive with other services
BBC News announce the start of the consultation.
BBC: TV licence fee decriminalisation consultation launches
The culture secretary says the fee needs to remain "relevant" in a "changing media landscape".www.bbc.co.uk
But why do they lead it with photos of Tess Daly, Claudia Winkleman, Claro Amfo and Phobe Waller-Bridge?
Are they on the consultation board - doesn't appear so.
Just seems to be a throw away photo, but they could have used photos of Baroness Nicky Morgan, surely that would have been more relevant to the story.
Or is this the BBC grasping at anything - "look we employ women, there's even a woman of colour, and one that has claimed to be gender non-conforming".
Cheers,
Nigel
I think the suggestion is that more than just CBeebies would be hit by this, but online media have applied their usual brand of drama just to get people pissed off!How pathetic a scare tactic to use, to say, changing to a subscription model would mean the main Children's output could be the ended.
Really BBC, you use the Children will suffer tactic!
Nothing else you could cut 1st eh?
Their argument is amazingly dumb.
The BBC is loved by most people, and most people agree it represents amazing value for money.
However, we will not be able to carry on if it's decriminalized and people are not forced to pay for it.
whats this i hear about the government scrapping it ?
So long as it’s a subscription to watch BBC and not a subscription to watch live tv, I’m fine with that.
"scrap the licence fee and make viewers pay a subscription"
So long as it’s a subscription to watch BBC and not a subscription to watch live tv, I’m fine with that.
I was watching that article getting a savaging last night.In the meantime this is the sort of inaccurate biased rubbish that we are paying for with our licence fee
From Sonic the Hedgehog to Star Wars, are fans too entitled?
The redesign of the new big-screen Sonic, in response to a fan backlash, shows how people power is now shaping pop culture – but what does that mean for creativity, asks Stephen Kelly.www.bbc.com
Cheers,
Nigel
Great in principle and I'm all for it but in reality I can't see it working.
BBC currently get around £4bn from the licence fee which they claim isn't enough.
Netflix is very successful in the UK and attracts 9.5 million subscribers.
Let's say that that the BBC could attract a similar number, call it 10 million. I doubt very much they would get that take up for just the BBC TV channels, not sure how BritBox is doing, not seen any numbers but I bet it isn't great. But let's be ultra generous and say 10 million subscribers.
So to maintain the current level of funding they need
£4bn/10mn per year = £400 per year = £33 per month.
There is no way that many people would pay £33 per month for just the BBC TV service.
One problem is that the BBC also has radio, the website, news services, world service, education. I suppose you could strip those down to the essential, maybe cover them with normal tax money, leaving the subscription just to cover the TV channels.. TV currently gets around 55% of the licence fee money which would bring the monthly subscription required down to
£18 per month.
Then you could talk about advertising but the likes of Amazon and Netflix don't really have adverts.
Maybe if you trimmed everything down you could get the subscription down to £10 per month but who would pay that for a pared down budget service - not 10,000,000 subscribers that's for sure.
In the meantime this is the sort of inaccurate biased rubbish that we are paying for with our licence fee
From Sonic the Hedgehog to Star Wars, are fans too entitled?
The redesign of the new big-screen Sonic, in response to a fan backlash, shows how people power is now shaping pop culture – but what does that mean for creativity, asks Stephen Kelly.www.bbc.com
Cheers,
Nigel
Are you not forgetting one MAJOR point here.
With a subscription model the BBC could offer subscriptions to every country around the world.