Abolition of TV licence fee.....

What is a no brainer, soon? It is not clear to me from your post whether your remark is with reference to paying the licence fee or changing the licence fee.

paying the licence fee. Sorry I wasnt clearer.

What about those of us who like it continuing to pay the licence fee and those who disagree being charged on a pay to view basis, at perhaps £2.50 an hour? My bet is those who claim they don't watch the BBC would soon want to go back to the standard fee, as the cost mounted (There must be the technology to do this now)

At £2.50 an hour, there is no way I would watch any of it!

At the moment it works out at about £12 a month. Pro rata that is about £3 a week. Would you pay that much, soontobe ?I

f you go to the cinema for a couple of hours, what would you expect to pay?

Do you have any TV channels that you do pay for, and how much a week do they work out as?

Personally I would not pay £3 a week. £1 a week would be ok.
I dont know how much the TV channels work out at that we pay for. Mr soontobe is in charge of bills.
If it was left to me, I would just have the free channels.
I go to the cinema no more than once a year.

Shouldn't be about the individual, though. What about all those who cannot get out and rely on the television for their views of the world?

How about a penny on the tax rate dedicated to the BBC?

www.freeview.co.uk/whats-on/channels

They are free channels because their expenses are all paid for by advertisers. No advertisers= no income. The advertisers pay for the programmes (and influence what is shown) in return for persuading us to buy their stuff.

The BBC has no adverts and no outside income, it is funded by the license fee.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

I based my £2.50 an hour on the average cost of hiring films, so maybe £5 for a film lasting a couple of hours. No objection to cutting it down to £2 an hour but anything less is unthinkable. I know I am getting a bargain for £145 a year but there are a lot of people out there who think they never watch the BBC if they really had to look at their viewing habits and pay they might realise differently.

You might have already guessed, that I dont think I have ever hired a film in my life either trisher.

The freeview channels include the BBC ones.

You need to have a TV licence to watch the freeview channels.