Well I didn't buy any booze the weekend, when can I expect the phone calls, the warning letters, county court judgement and two large gentlemen removing the furniture from my house Beds?
The BBC is, still, the best media service we have and it provides good value for money. Most of what I watch is on one or the other of their channels. However, you can see that they are cutting corners in an effort to reduce costs. Unfortunately, not always in the right areas. Their presenters (or perhaps autocue writers) seem to have lost the ability to understand how the English language works and the digital text service is patchy and often not updated properly; eg, the football gossip section harvested from the newspapers. They should either resource it properly and update it every day or just bin it. The diminished red button streaming and the very low (below european industry standards) bit rate on the so-called HD output are examples of mistakes that the BBC are making with their budget cuts while every chat show and, oddly, some radio programmes still seem to have a never-ending supply of BBC logo coffee mugs. If they could stop advertsing their own "reality" shows in the middle of news programmes it would be nice too.
Well I didn't buy any booze the weekend, when can I expect the phone calls, the warning letters, county court judgement and two large gentlemen removing the furniture from my house Beds?
Mr Jones .. do you use the BBC website, or ever listen to any BBC radio station or watch ANY BBC tv programmes ? .. if you say 'no', then you must live a very hermit like existence. I agree to some extent that the licence is just an arbitrary form of tax. I know working people who's children are grown up who object to paying tax for unemployment benefit and education for other people's children. In a modern industrialised society, a degree of compulsion to 'pay up' is essential, otherwise anarchy would ensue if people were free not to pay or to choose what or how much to pay. Millions use the BBC daily and the easiest way of funding it is by a form of taxation. The question is surely, has the BBC lost its way and become too arrogant and divorced from public approval
It all comes down to politics, the BBC is the biggest Commie organisation in the UK, so if you're of the political left, as most of you are, you're gonna defend it.
Well I didn't buy any booze the weekend, when can I expect the phone calls, the warning letters, county court judgement and two large gentlemen removing the furniture from my house Beds?
Mr Jones .. do you use the BBC website, or ever listen to any BBC radio station or watch ANY BBC tv programmes ? .. if you say 'no', then you must live a very hermit like existence. I agree to some extent that the licence is just an arbitrary form of tax. I know working people who's children are grown up who object to paying tax for unemployment benefit and education for other people's children. In a modern industrialised society, a degree of compulsion to 'pay up' is essential, otherwise anarchy would ensue if people were free not to pay or to choose what or how much to pay. Millions use the BBC daily and the easiest way of funding it is by a form of taxation. The question is surely, has the BBC lost its way and become too arrogant and divorced from public approval
Lincs, I use many websites and listen to many radio stations of choice and as was mentioned originally (for this is what the thread was about in the first place) I do follow the match day scores on the regularly disappointing BBC sports website. There are two camps here obviously, the admirers of the good old BBC of days gone by, who are happy to be taxed for the privilege of being condescended to and those who think the whole organisation is an outdated, corrupt self serving monolith that they would like the option of opting out of helping to fund as they do not use it or agree with it's methods and output.
My instincts tell me that rather than wait another 25 years till I no longer are required to pay for a TV license, the BBC will have long changed at that point and will have joined the real world and be funded by advertising.
It all comes down to politics, the BBC is the biggest Commie organisation in the UK, so if you're of the political left, as most of you are, you're gonna defend it.
It all comes down to politics, the BBC is the biggest Commie organisation in the UK, so if you're of the political left, as most of you are, you're gonna defend it.
It all comes down to politics, the BBC is the biggest Commie organisation in the UK, so if you're of the political left, as most of you are, you're gonna defend it.
It all comes down to politics, the BBC is the biggest Commie organisation in the UK, so if you're of the political left, as most of you are, you're gonna defend it.
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If they could stop advertsing their own "reality" shows in the middle of news programmes it would be nice too.
I'm not, so I think it sucks balls!
My instincts tell me that rather than wait another 25 years till I no longer are required to pay for a TV license, the BBC will have long changed at that point and will have joined the real world and be funded by advertising.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/mobile/football/20506696