Re: BBC TV Licence fee is to be abolished ASAP : Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:53 am  

By the way - although the title of the thread is not literal, it could be literal very soon.

According to the Sunday Times today "a panel of experts" have advised the government that the BBC should not be funded via a licence but from subscription instead and that this should happen from 2020 onwards.

The Centenary Review is a bit of a talking shop for ex politicians and ex media bosses but it is an official government review and apparently the BBC are looking to charge for digital downloads of programs in the near future in what will be their equivalent of iTunes.

Its also suggested that £20 a month (£240 a year) would be a level to aim for against the current licence fee of £145.

I use a lot of the online functionality of the BBC and watch very little live TV because of other distractions in my life and would probably subscribe if the full array of radio and TV services were still maintained in their present form, however popular it is to b1tch and whine about the BBC it is still a bloody good product.

Re: BBC TV Licence fee is to be abolished ASAP : Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:19 am  

The Tories HATE the BBC for pointing out the truth and not being biased. That woman and here cronies did despicable things to broadcasting in this country but her inbred hatred and the way she gerrymandered her people into positions at the beeb was disgraceful.

Re: BBC TV Licence fee is to be abolished ASAP : Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:55 pm  

Leaguefan wrote:

The Tories HATE the BBC for pointing out the truth and not being biased ...

While huge chunks of the left see it as biased the other way – in its reporting (or lack thereof) of the privatisation of the NHS, for instance.