Time to end the TV licence? (5 Viewers)

[Kingokings204]

After the BBC revealed top stars salaries and the massive inequality of gender pay in the corporation is it time to end the tv licence once and for all?

I personally hate the BBC. I find them biased, massively overpaid and it needs to be scrapped asap.

 

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[Otis]

I love the Beeb. Still make some of the best TV out there and I don't particularly find them biased at all for the most part.

Only biasedness I usually see from them is excessive love towards the royal family.

 

[Suffolk sky blues]

TV is evolving and the nature will take its course.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

The people within need bringing back into reality, we don't need to pay Jug Ears just under two million quid to do a job that isn't needed just show the match his pay is amazing per day. When they say they will leave if you don't pay the money they all can't leave. Anybody who reads the news off the auto queue doesn't need 600k to do it the job should be for one only.

Laura kusenburg is dreadfully biased and agree with Otis about the royal family I have never seen such a bunch of arse kissers when they are on the only person who is worse is that Arthur Edwards from the sun his lips must ache at the end of a day from his excessive arse kissing.

 

[SkyBlueScottie]

I can't help but think a lot of opinions, certainly the ones who want to scrap the BBC / TV licence, are based on what is deemed to be excessive salaries. Get rid of the license fee, then they won't be able to afford to show any matches, they still provide lots of decent drama, plus radio, plus contributions to ITV, C4. The alternative is excessive monthly charges and even more biased news etc from Murdoch.

 

[Kingokings204]

I can't help but think a lot of opinions, certainly the ones who want to scrap the BBC / TV licence, are based on what is deemed to be excessive salaries. Get rid of the license fee, then they won't be able to afford to show any matches, they still provide lots of decent drama, plus radio, plus contributions to ITV, C4. The alternative is excessive monthly charges and even more biased news etc from Murdoch.

Yes but at least you have the option to not pay sky or virgin.

 

[ajsccfc]

I really don't care how much of my licence fee goes to Gary Lineker, when it also funds a load of TV that I neither watch nor am aware of.

 

[Otis]

Yes but at least you have the option to not pay sky or virgin.

I tried that with Virgin and they threatened to take me to court.

 

[lifeskyblue]

Personally I think the license fee is incredible value for money with the quality of tv we get for it. However I do think some salaries are excessive and just as with football I see increasingly it is the agents who are pushing up the costs because of the inflated slices they need to take.
As for BBC bias...agree with the over fawning to the royal family and the obsession with London and south east. The BBC is the establishment and therefore some bias creeps in. I see the BBC as fairly neutral politically but appears left wing as the majority of the press is far to the right. I don't like the way the BBC increasingly treats us as an offshoot of the USA. Neither do I like the political correctness gone mad and could do far more for race and gender equality rather than for example put in token guests on panel/chat shows etc.


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[jimmyhillsfanclub]

Great value for money......but I appreciate it probably shouldn't be compulsory in this day & age with so much other choice of subscription services (most of which pump out what appears to be a constant stream of dumb american shite IMHO)

Personally, I reckon Radio 6, 5 & 4 plus the wonderful Iplayer are worth the licence fee money alone......

By comparison, the only thing I've watched on the lowest common denominator chavvy ITV in the last few years is the Tour de France of ITV4.

 

[Otis]

Great value for money......but I appreciate it probably shouldn't be compulsory in this day & age with so much other choice of subscription services (most of which pump out what appears to be a constant stream of dumb american shite IMHO)

Personally, I reckon Radio 6, 5 & 4 plus the wonderful Iplayer are worth the licence fee money alone......

By comparison, the only thing I've watched on the lowest common denominator chavvy ITV in the last few years is the Tour de France of ITV4.

Yep, same here. The amount of shows I have watched on ITV in the last few months I can count on one finger.

 

[Liquid Gold]

I think we should be rid of the fee but it still be publicly funded and just taken as part of income tax or something similar. The BBC gets the same money with a set increase linked to inflation or something of the like but those who can afford it pay more towards it.

It should definitely stay state owned and independent, its goal to educate, inform and entertain is perfect and some of the things it's capable of are incredible. No other channel in the world could make something like planet earth, not at the cost and time the BBC put in to it.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Yep, same here. The amount of shows I have watched on ITV in the last few months I can count on one finger.

I need 2 fingers to make a 0

 

[Otis]

I need 2 fingers to make a 0

I watched Broadchurch.

 

[RegTheDonk]

Salaries will always be a factor, how much they paid Evans or Linekar, or before him Ross, Wogan etc., but compared to my basic and much more expensive sky subscription (think I've only watched a few show on Sky Atlantic, or stuff i've seen again and again on gold/dave etc) I think the licence fee is good value for money. Very diverse and I dare say everyone at some point watches or listens to something on the BBC. Local radio alone is 100% better than the commercial stuff.

Appreciate you can use your PVR and skip through adverts, but to not have the hassle is great. iPlayer I believe is the best tool for catchup, the others force you to watch their ads.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

The fact that the BBC has demonstrated itself to be a heavily biased mouthpiece for Corbyn’s Hard Left is reason enough to cut the fee.

 

[Liquid Gold]

The fact that the BBC has demonstrated itself to be a heavily biased mouthpiece for Corbyn’s Hard Left is reason enough to cut the fee.

Apart from a BBC report said that the bias was against Corbyn?

 

[Ian1779]

The fact that the BBC has demonstrated itself to be a heavily biased mouthpiece for Corbyn’s Hard Left is reason enough to cut the fee.

You obviously much prefer the Murdoch inspired right wing garbage at Sky...

 

[clint van damme]

Apart from a BBC report said that the bias was against Corbyn?

regularly refused to report on well attended rallies to hear Corbyn speak or grossly under exaggerated the numbers of those in attendance. Strange bias that.

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

okay folks.....that 3 bites for Ernie within 20mins......

IMO, The BBC is the fairest of the TV news agencies....

Personally....I reckon over all, they do a fair job.......one day they blank a Corbyn rally.......the next, they broadcast his full 15 min Glasto speech.....

(which personally I found deeply ironic......talking about "building bridges, not walls".....whilst addressing a broadly middle class audience who'd paid a minimum of £250 a pop to be there......and were surrounded by a massive wall to keep the riff-riff out:cigar

 

[Deleted member 5849]

IMO, The BBC is the fairest of the TV news agencies....

There's a lot of academic research that backs that up too... but of course, we all know academia is lefty-Corbyn-Trotskyish biased too, don't we

 

[Liquid Gold]

There's a lot of academic research that backs that up too... but of course, we all know academia is lefty-Corbyn-Trotskyish biased too, don't we

Shut up, racist Dave from the moon in water knows whats on.

 

[SkyblueBazza]

After the BBC revealed top stars salaries and the massive inequality of gender pay in the corporation is it time to end the tv licence once and for all?

I personally hate the BBC. I find them biased, massively overpaid and it needs to be scrapped asap.

Do you mean biased towards males?

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[SkyblueBazza]

Yes but at least you have the option to not pay sky or virgin.

What so if you want to watch all the F1 events for example, you have to pay money AND agree to be exposed to THEIR bias...but that's alright?

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[SkyblueBazza]

Imo there is simply too much choice now. It takes hours to plan an evenings viewing by scrolling across, up & down the channel guide.
So much so I watch less & less tv

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[SkyblueBazza]

Apart from a BBC report said that the bias was against Corbyn?

That's the big thing with bias...those who look for it or shout most about it are maybe riddled with it themself

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[fernandopartridge]

After the BBC revealed top stars salaries and the massive inequality of gender pay in the corporation is it time to end the tv licence once and for all?

I personally hate the BBC. I find them biased, massively overpaid and it needs to be scrapped asap.

Biased for whom? The fact that both people on the left and the right find them biased shows that they're probably quite balanced overall.

I personally think the BBC provides good value for money, it's the envy of the world and a British institution. If you prefer a future controlled by the likes of Murdoch then move to America and watch the shite they churn out there.

 

[scubasteve]

To me its pretty simple, Scrap the TV licence, and let the bbc finance the TV and radio programmes like all the others channels through optional subscription and advertising. instead of basically having a compulsory tax. no one can moan then if they feel people are paid to much who work there and the content is bias or crap.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

The people within need bringing back into reality, we don't need to pay Jug Ears just under two million quid to do a job that isn't needed just show the match his pay is amazing per day. When they say they will leave if you don't pay the money they all can't leave. Anybody who reads the news off the auto queue doesn't need 600k to do it the job should be for one only.

Laura kusenburg is dreadfully biased and agree with Otis about the royal family I have never seen such a bunch of arse kissers when they are on the only person who is worse is that Arthur Edwards from the sun his lips must ache at the end of a day from his excessive arse kissing.

Hear, hear.

Disgusted,
Tunbridge Wells

 

[Captain Dart]

Time to change the system. It is going to be overtaken by events before long, soon enough most TV will be watched via internet feed.

I am not a fan of the BBC these days, it has lost its way and has a political stance in its news reporting which I find very left wing.
However it still produces some good comedy and drama (as well as a lot of dross).
Increasingly Channel 4 is better and quite a chunk of the more watchable stuff is produced abroad.

 

[Ian1779]

I think it's ridiculous to suggest BBC has a left wing bias when they continue to give oxygen to Farage and his party of exactly 0 MP's...

 

[SkyblueBazza]

I think it's ridiculous to suggest BBC has a left wing bias when they continue to give oxygen to Farage and his party of exactly 0 MP's...

Yes...absolutely!

The BBC has right-wing bias. No! Left-wing bias...Hang-on. ..in reality very little bias!!!

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[Ian1779]

Yes...absolutely!

The BBC has right-wing bias. No! Left-wing bias...Hang-on. ..in reality very little bias!!!

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Maybe just crap political reporters...

 

[martcov]

I love the Beeb. Still make some of the best TV out there and I don't particularly find them biased at all for the most part.

Only biasedness I usually see from them is excessive love towards the royal family.

I love the royal family ( the Queen really ) and don't find it bias. I find KoK bias.

 

[skybluetony176]

Christian O'Connell made a gracious point on Absolute radios breakfast show this morning pointing out that if Chris Evans worked in commercial radio pulling in as many listeners as he does on radio 2 he'd be earning considerably more money than he does at the BBC.

The inequality between women's wages and men's is not an issue exclusive to the BBC but disappointing all the same.