BBC licence fee poll.

[turbobloke]

bexVN said:

I've just edited my reply because I misread what you had written so answered incorrectly. That's what happens when you are rushing (due to the 7 month old baby!!)

OK

[bexVN]

turbobloke said:

bexVN said:

I've just edited my reply because I misread what you had written so answered incorrectly. That's what happens when you are rushing (due to the 7 month old baby!!)

OK

thanks for the edit. As a final note the licence fee is worth it alone for cbeebies

[Funk]

McTory said:

And read between the lines in todays announcement and you realize that you will be paying to watch youtube

More socialism from the so called tory party

Can't ever see that happening. You're into the realms of 'Labour-style' taxation with something like that. In the words of Mylene Klass, "...you can't just go around pointing at things and taxing them. You might as well tax this glass of water."

[Halb]

Green paper published on Thursday.

[hornetrider]

Aye caramba.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11738097/BBC-w...

'Cost cutting' BBC wage bill up with 81 managers earning more than the Prime Minister. Total wage bill is nearly a billion squid.

Now, I love the Beeb but really?! This kind of largesse seems rather out of kilter with cuts everywhere else across the public sector.

[Eric Mc]

The UK Prime Minister is one of the lowest paid national leaders in the world.

[Randy Winkman]

And I wonder how much they could get paid elsewhere?

[otolith]

Randy Winkman said:

And I wonder how much they could get paid elsewhere?

I'll give them a lift to the airport.

(Am I doing it right?)

[Ste1987]

No option for "Don't pay it because I still live with the rents?" When I move out, hopefully in January, I doubt I'll be paying the license fee. I don't watch much telly, but I might just pay for a Netflix subscription so at least I can watch whatever I want to watch whenever I want

[turbobloke]

Eric Mc said:

The UK Prime Minister is one of the lowest paid national leaders in the world.

Given the current way MPs and then Party leaders are selected / promoted, at least we're doing something right.

For them to get much more, we'd need more than an Oxford PPE and a shiny suit. They don't need to worry though, they vote for their own pay rise.

otolith said:

Randy Winkman said:

And I wonder how much they could get paid elsewhere?

I'll give them a lift to the airport.

(Am I doing it right?)

Sure you are, on arrival they can scan through various destinations to find somewhere else they can work in a similar role without open competition for funding. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is one option, at least they'd be accustomed to politicisation and bias.

[Halb]

Tony Blair did well.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

The UK Prime Minister is one of the lowest paid national leaders in the world.

They seem to get by though, don't they?

[Glade]

Moral Maze on R4 this evening covered... The BBC!

[Halb]

Was it good?

[GrumpyTwig]

"Government to launch 'root-and-branch' review of the BBC"-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33537...

[turbobloke]

GrumpyTwig said:

"Government to launch 'root-and-branch' review of the BBC"-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33537...

Various luvvies, mostly Labour-leaning luvvies by the looks of it, have become vocal about this - which is hardly surprising given how most of them grew several rolls of fat metaphorically speaking. Piggies at the public trough squealing, a fine sight.

[crofty1984]

Justayellowbadge said:

I would gladly sell my house and all its contents to help the BBC.

Not the nine o' clock news?

[anonymous-user]

Interesting comment from a BBC producer this week.

Apparently the Proms are "a gift from the BBC to the viewers".

Does that mean that no licencepayers' money is spent on producing them?

Talk about living on a different planet..........

[anonymous-user]

Looks like 17% of the poll are going to be unhappy...

The culture secretary has vowed to end the iPlayer "loophole" soon, so those watching catch-up TV do not get "a free ride".
John Whittingdale said the licence fee would be extended so it no longer just applied to live television viewers.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35708...

I cant see in the article if it will apply to ITV's, Skys (etc) similar services.

Edited by djstevec on Wednesday 2nd March 18:35

[Funk]

djstevec said:

Looks like 17% of the poll are going to be unhappy...

The culture secretary has vowed to end the iPlayer "loophole" soon, so those watching catch-up TV do not get "a free ride".
John Whittingdale said the licence fee would be extended so it no longer just applied to live television viewers.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35708...

I cant see in the article if it will apply to ITV's, Skys (etc) similar services.

Edited by djstevec on Wednesday 2nd March 18:35

I'm one of the 17% and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, in fact I think I've said before that the iPlayer loophole should be closed. The reason I don't mind? There's nothing on it I want to watch (which was why I ditched the licence fee in the first place many years ago). They should paywall the BBC websites as a whole too.

I'll be staggered if they try and apply it to commercial catch up as they're ad-funded and it would be wholly unenforceable. It won't change anything for me.

It's a dinosaur which can't keep up with the new way of things, much like London cabbies trying to ban/hobble Uber. The world's changed and they need to change with it - the BBC should be made PPV and viewers allowed to watch commercial broadcasting without having to fund the BBC.

Edited by Funk on Wednesday 2nd March 19:40