Will you keep your TV licence ?

Most of what I watch is BBC, with a bit of ITV and Channel 5 for some of their history documentaries. My son tells me to give it up and watch Netflix, but I just find acres of stuff that I wouldn't watch if you paid me. If you don't go out much for entertainment the licence fee is pretty good value.

I will keep mine and Netflix !

We're keeping ours; I consider it brilliant value for money.

Elsi

I'm not paying it to the treacherous bbc

Well you’ll be breaking the law if you watch any terrestrial TV..
Netflix,,sky, Now, Amazon Prime etc will come to a lot more- then there’s the fine too.

Not sure what’s treacherous about the BBC? That’s one hell of a sweeping statement. A few dodgy people in an huge organisation with thousands of employees.

The BBC does some good things, it's better than ITV, but the licence fee is old fashioned and an on cost to poorer people. I would sooner the BBC became smaller, concentrated on high quality programming, and accepted sponsorship for tis most popular programmes. I'm sure they'd find someone to sponsor a major football match like commercial broadcasters do.

I don't want the BBC to have adverts. I hate adverts.

I have no TV but have to have a licence to watch a very limited selection on iPlayer. I’ve never wanted to watch anything live except Traitors, which was not available live.
I value the BBC but this is so unfair. If you’re only watching on iPlayer it should be much cheaper.

kittylester

I don't want the BBC to have adverts. I hate adverts.

I'm suggesting the BBC has sponsorship for its most popular programmes. It would mean the sponsor would be able to pay part of the cost of a programme and enable the BBC to make the more niche programmess it used to be famous for. Also not having so many channels and presenters would save money.
One example of BBC waste is Final Score, with its presenter, three pundits and a platoon of reporters. All they need do is have a presenter reading the results and showing the tables.

Yes, I will because I too dislike adverts which seem to be more frequent and go on for longer than they ever did before.

Not the BBC, but I think ITV's standards have really dropped since the eighties. I can remember when companies like Central and Thames made great dramas, factual programmes, chat shows and decent quiz shows like Blockbusters. Now it's the same boring game shows every day, reality rubbish, cheap entertainment and the soaps five days a wek.

we have one and we don't watch any live television AT ALL
I do watch stuff on iplayer though

When I've looked at BBC which isn't often I find the advertising they do about the BBC really annoying and how they praise themselves on these adverts and claim they are unbiased Do they think people can't think for themselves

I mean if we have to pay for BBC why would people want to pay for them to advertise themselves we are only supposed to have to pay because they don't do adverts