BBC may not be here in 10 yrs!

[Iminquarantine]

Seems Nadine Dorries, our Culture Secretary who ate a camel anus on TV, is not sure if the BBC will be around in 10 years.

Could it disappear so fast? Will other networks reduce the amount of shows featuring off animal parts in favour of something more serious?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-nadine-...

[julian987R]

Iminquarantine said:

Seems Nadine Dorries, our Culture Secretary who ate a camel anus on TV, is not sure if the BBC will be around in 10 years.

Could it disappear so fast? Will other networks reduce the amount of shows featuring off animal parts in favour of something more serious?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-nadine-...

Amazed it'll take ten years. Once decay sets in it spreads fast, like it is, and rife. Only took 4 years for Blockbuster to tumble after Netflix.

[Evanivitch]

julian987R said:

Amazed it'll take ten years. Once decay sets in it spreads fast, like it is, and rife. Only took 4 years for Blockbuster to tumble after Netflix.

What's going to tumble BBC? It has had a successful video streaming platform for over a decade and has several international streaming partnerships...

[mickytruelove]

a video streaming service you do not need to pay for makes things a bit different.

[Countdown]

She doesn't like their "elitist attitude"....does she think they should broadcast more programmes about Z-List celebs eating kangaroo anuses?

[chrispmartha]

I’ve always found it interesting that a lot of the people who seem overly jingoistic seem to constantly bash one of the institutions in this country that is actually world renowned and respected.

[ATG]

When a politician complains that something is "elitist", they're assuming they're talking to ignorant plebs. "Hey little ignorant plebs, you're being patronised by the elitist BBC!" No, Nadine, you silly billy, it's you who is talking down to your audience and they're nothing like as thick as you're assuming them to be.

Elitist Eastenders, elitist Bargain Hunt, elitist Hey Duggee, for Heaven's sake.

[roger.mellie]

Iminquarantine said:

Seems Nadine Dorries, our Culture Secretary who ate a camel anus on TV, is not sure if the BBC will be around in 10 years.

Could it disappear so fast? Will other networks reduce the amount of shows featuring off animal parts in favour of something more serious?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-nadine-...

Sniff, I smell bullst. The BBC is far too useful as an acquiescent instrument for the government to do away with.

Cut its funding and spread it about a few other equally lenient organisations without reducing the license fee seems more likely to me.

[spookly]

iPlayer wouldn't attract a similar fee to Netflix or Prime.
The TV license is already at a similar price point to Netflix HD subscription.
Very few younger people watch broadcast TV - even a lot of older people only watch on demand now. Why wait for something to be broadcast at a specific time?
So, I can see the BBC slowly dying. All it will take is the government deciding it's a popular thing to do to make the BBC go commercial & end the license fee. Then the BBC will die on it's own in very little time.

[roger.mellie]

spookly said:

iPlayer wouldn't attract a similar fee to Netflix or Prime.
The TV license is already at a similar price point to Netflix HD subscription.
Very few younger people watch broadcast TV - even a lot of older people only watch on demand now. Why wait for something to be broadcast at a specific time?
So, I can see the BBC slowly dying. All it will take is the government deciding it's a popular thing to do to make the BBC go commercial & end the license fee. Then the BBC will die on it's own in very little time.

Last I checked Netfix isn't profitable. Any government insisting that the national broadcaster must return a profit, well, good luck to them on that. See also, any citizen suggesting that the national broadcaster is anti-government, well good luck to them on that.

As much as I like netflix and other streaming services I can't remember the last time they offered me local radio. Netflix doesn't have much of a website. Disney doesn't do much for local education. Comparisons need to be on an equal basis if you're going to pay pound for pound.

Still, I'm becoming disillusioned with BBC news in particular because I think they've become imasculated by successive governments to the point where they're never going to be the source of a whistleblower story.

I'd not support getting rid of them for that reason, I'd support doing away with government interference instead.

[Evanivitch]

mickytruelove said:

a video streaming service you do not need to pay for makes things a bit different.

You have to have a TV licence for iPlayer in the UK. And it's never been free when broadcast abroad.

[vulture1]

Good riddance I say. BBC needs to go and won't be missed.

[Unknown_User]

I thought it was ostrich anus Nadine was famous for munching?

Didn’t she appear on a television show herself at some stage?

[roger.mellie]

vulture1 said:

Good riddance I say. BBC needs to go and won't be missed.

Why?

[julian987R]

Evanivitch said:

julian987R said:

Amazed it'll take ten years. Once decay sets in it spreads fast, like it is, and rife. Only took 4 years for Blockbuster to tumble after Netflix.

What's going to tumble BBC? It has had a successful video streaming platform for over a decade and has several international streaming partnerships...

A generation upon generation that does not endorse, or rather compute, needing to pay to watch live broadcasts.

It is usually the ones that seem too big to fall that fall. They will fail, 4 years from now, 10 years, 100 years, whenever, they will fall. Diversification in business model will not save them, they have 2nd or 3rd or 4th mover advantage they can take, those have been taken. It is only a matter of time.

[paulw123]

spookly said:

All it will take is the government deciding it's a popular thing to do to make the BBC go commercial & end the license fee. Then the BBC will die on it's own in very little time.

It’s criminal we still have to pay £159 a year for the utter garbage nobody watches. Would love the BBC to go commercial.

[Chrisgr31]

paulw123 said:

It’s criminal we still have to pay £159 a year for the utter garbage nobody watches. Would love the BBC to go commercial.

No one watches? https://www.thinkbox.tv/research/barb-data/top-pro... Pistonheads seems to be full of garbage posts and that went fully commercial some time ago.

The BBC must be doing something right as people of all political persuasion complain its biased.

[valiant]

paulw123 said:

spookly said:

All it will take is the government deciding it's a popular thing to do to make the BBC go commercial & end the license fee. Then the BBC will die on it's own in very little time.

It’s criminal we still have to pay £159 a year for the utter garbage nobody watches. Would love the BBC to go commercial.

Millions watch every day, even the garbage!

[roger.mellie]

paulw123 said:

It’s criminal we still have to pay £159 a year for the utter garbage nobody watches. Would love the BBC to go commercial.

Criminal? Bit extreme (or false as most would call it).

The BBC could destroy commercial VOD in the UK. I'm supportive of the policies that hold them back from doing that.

But I'm smart enough to understand the difference between how the organisation is funded, the areas it should involve itself in, and its degree of government independence. Some of you aren't.

I'm pretty sure that most people that I think are idiots on this subject can't separate their desire for BBC defunding from their hatred of perceived news bias regardless of everything else the BBC does. Idiots.

[Diderot]

valiant said:

paulw123 said:

spookly said:

All it will take is the government deciding it's a popular thing to do to make the BBC go commercial & end the license fee. Then the BBC will die on it's own in very little time.

It’s criminal we still have to pay £159 a year for the utter garbage nobody watches. Would love the BBC to go commercial.

Millions watch every day, even the garbage!

indeed. CF fuel panic buying and idiotic wits lying down in the road blocking motorways and emergency ambulances proclaiming 'insulate Britain' because they've been told by the BBC activists masquerading as journalists 'climate emergency'.