RedAsABeetroot
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Not on the scale and duration they have reached now.
TV licence fee rise
- Thread starter scottyr1978
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Cheap for what you get. Must admit their political reporting has been abysmal for a few years -probably scared the govt would bin the licence fee if they criticised them. Apart from that loads of stuff on iPlayer plus Tees radio. What subscription service would you get legally for £14 per month?
TeaCider
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Any subscription service.
Netflix and Disney + start at £4.99 with ads, £7.99 without.
Amazon Prime is £8.99 a month.
Is that colour radio or black and white radio
Norman_Conquest
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If you watch live on any channel, TV service or streaming service, or use BBC iPlayer, you need to be covered by a TV Licence.
This applies to any device you use, including a TV, computer, laptop, phone, tablet, games console or digital box.
italianjob
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Depends on what you are streaming?
Quicksilvera
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Pretty much any you want.
S7DiscoDown
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Definitely need an opt out option. I'd opt out in a flash.
I'd rather put the £12 odd a month towards a streaming service. The last thing I actually watched on the BBC was line of duty. I hardly watch any terrestrial TV.
Don't mention iplayer and radio etc. Also don't use either. So why should I pay it? You don't watch Disney / amazon you simply don't subscribe. I'm not sure why bbc should be any different. Why should anyone pay for something they don't use?
I'd rather put the £12 odd a month towards a streaming service. The last thing I actually watched on the BBC was line of duty. I hardly watch any terrestrial TV.
Don't mention iplayer and radio etc. Also don't use either. So why should I pay it? You don't watch Disney / amazon you simply don't subscribe. I'm not sure why bbc should be any different. Why should anyone pay for something they don't use?
Fat_Dragon
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If you don’t use any BBC service or watch any live TV then you don’t need to pay.
Norman_Conquest
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Anything live, that's taken from the government's website.
It's great value, if you use it, but that is just because you are being subsidised by all the other people that don't think it's great value. If it was a subscription service it wouldn't get close to covering their costs because it's only surviving by forcing people to pay that want to watch any live TV on any channel (particularly sport).
It should be a choice. People shouldn't have to pay the BBC to watch a competitor.
It should be a choice. People shouldn't have to pay the BBC to watch a competitor.
Boroshirtmuseum
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agree with this. It’s a legacy legality which is on its last legs. Imagine being forced by law to pay for Netflix or sky.The BBC should be made into a subscription without ads and with ads for none subscribers
Sure but tees is funded from the license
Norman_Conquest
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Before subscription TV, it was muted that the BBC should be allowed to show adverts to do away with the license fee. Not sure that would work now, even ITV is offering a subscription service.
The BBC should be made into a subscription without ads and with ads for none subscribers
YouAreMyBoro
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Is there an argument that the pot of money provided through taxation means there is an ability to create programmes that are important to some people in society that otherwise would not be created if there was only mainstream appetite?
Arts, culture, sports, local stuff (radio tees?)?
I think of the BBC as a socialist kind of vehicle that means things important to people across society get provided, not just the mainstream stuff.
For example I do not like radio 2 but Doris down the road might listen to it for 6 hours a day as she's lonely. Moving BBC to a purely subscription based service would likely mean that service got canned as it's maybe not got enough demand to keep it going.
Arts, culture, sports, local stuff (radio tees?)?
I think of the BBC as a socialist kind of vehicle that means things important to people across society get provided, not just the mainstream stuff.
For example I do not like radio 2 but Doris down the road might listen to it for 6 hours a day as she's lonely. Moving BBC to a purely subscription based service would likely mean that service got canned as it's maybe not got enough demand to keep it going.
Boroshirtmuseum
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abolish the license fee and just put adverts on. I’d rather watch ads and save £150 per year…. I’m sure Doris would n all
atypical_boro
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You'd also be abolishing everything that didn't look to generate maximum revenue though, including most local services.
That £150 would soon be Hoovered up by the other providers once the BBC are out of the picture.
What other industry has been fully privatised with huge success?
You do have the option to opt out