BBC LIcence Fee Hike

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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The BBC is far from perfect

I wish it had alternatives to the current radio 5 or radio 4 24 hour radio for example

But it's advert free and if it disappears then we will be left with utter rubbish

What the BBC needs to do is pull back on the wages it pays which don't do it any favours

[dandywarhol]

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You have to be over75 to get it free, not just of pension age.

Means tested now.In other words you have to be on pension credit

[2b2bdoo]

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People can re-evaluate all they like, but these are the facts regarding annual costs of the licence and the most popular streaming services. With all that you get from the BBC my view is it's worth every penny.

Sky (Bloody everything) £948
Sky (Basic Package) £228
Netflix £216
BBC £159 (Proposed increase to £174)
Disney £109
Apple TV £108
Prime Video £95
Paramount + £83
ITV X £60

It seems it's the right are the ones who are most against the licence as long as it gets rid of Lineker and the rest of his woke ilk. Isn't it Murdoch and his rags that seem to shout the loudest about abolishing the licence fee? Wonder why

I quite like the bbc, no policical issue, don’t really care about that. Other than with Sky which is usually fixed contract all the rest you can opt in and out of with a click of a button. Other than my wife watching strictly we very rarely, if ever watch BBC so £174 is expensive. I simple opt in option for the bbc would solve any issues.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Lots of people have stopped paying haven't they, since they made the pensioners pay again, they don't seem to enforce it like they used to, maybe harder to do so now?

Just for accuracy, the Tory Government wouldn't fund the free TV licenses and expected the BBC to pick up the tab. The Beeb refused.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Turn them private no one wants to pay for it, give Lineker and co a pay cut, if they can make it work through advertising great if not they can do some streaming channels or something.

The moment the BBC starts advertising is the moment their impartiality goes out of the window.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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£15 rise wanted, Government not happy. It’s about time the Corporation was partly funded by advertising.

No, it's not.

[Cleve van Leef]

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You have to be over75 to get it free, not just of pension age.

Only if you’re on Pension Credits, if not you have to pay. I missed out of a free licence by 2 months and would have had at least one year free, now I pay the full whack

[Cleve van Leef]

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I think a significant increase could well lead to a lot of people re-evaluating the value they get from "live" tv as opposed to streaming/catch-up services.

You still have to pay, covers all media, from tv to radio to streaming on your computer.

[Cleve van Leef]

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No, it's not.

Oh yes it is

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Funding it with advertising would mean the existing budgets of advertisers being stretched even more thinly, so less money for ITV, C4, C5, Sky etc and fewer new programmes being made.

[Former Labour leader]

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[QUOTE=cantonboy;5472856]You have to be over75 to get it free, not just of pension age.[/

[Former Labour leader]

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Just for accuracy, the Tory Government wouldn't fund the free TV licenses and expected the BBC to pick up the tab. The Beeb refused.

Was a very clever move by George Osborne. BBC get blamed. Tories more than happy to force BBC go commercial.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Radio 4 is worth the licence fee on its own.

It has educated me about astronomy, history, biology, philosophy, geography, language, sociology, the world at large and a lot else.
The Infinite Monkey Cage, In The Psychiatrist's Chair, In Our Time, From Our Own Correspondent, Word Of Mouth, Thinking Allowed, The Moral Maze, The Life Scientific, The Re-union, All In The Mind, File on 4, Great Lives and More or Less are just some of the excellent programmes that have helped in the field of erudition of this humble soul.

And then there's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, of course!

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Oh yes it is

Christmas smileys!!!

[JumpersforGoalposts]

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You still have to pay, covers all media, from tv to radio to streaming on your computer.

The licence fee is to watch (or record) "live" broadcast tv and for access to the BBC i-player. It is not required for any use of radio or using a TV or computer to watch any other service that is not "live".