Ffs, they’re considering a rise when the real question is if they should exist.
Martinonfire on
They are pricing themselves out of the market, you just have to look at home many people have decided not to bother.
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No-Incident6359 on
Tbh, it’s pretty good value for money for 4 network TV channels, 6 national radio stations, loads of local stations, a huge website that’s the most popular in the country, iplayer and Sounds. It’s £15 a month with no ads, that’s better value than every single streaming service
seany1212 on
A lot of the recent generations don’t consume media in the same way. Whether that shows, films or audio, and while there are certainly some generations that still consume it in a mechanism that the BBC take advantage of, there needs to be a shakeup on this exploitation that the BBC seem to be allowed to get away with.
aredddit on
It’s time to just end the license fee. More and more people are openly not paying it and there’s no value in giving capita nearly £100 p/a to legally harass people.
Eric_Olthwaite_ on
Just give it up BBC, no-one will be paying this in 10 years, The Licence fee is dead.
Ceftiofur on
They could double the price for all I care.
Not paying it lol
-info-sec- on
We happily pay for Prime, Netflix & Spotify Premium. We don’t pay for that BBC TV Licence.
Nearly all our TVs (x7) launch straight into a Fire stick via HDMI; the BBC TV licence is done.
plastic_alloys on
If it were up to me, I’d make 2 big changes – it would be just funded by regular taxation – and would stop trying to compete with the other channels for creating dross. It should focus on things that perhaps wouldn’t be commercially viable otherwise. Educational, niche, weird. Some of the little segments you get on Radio 4 are still like this, really out-there stuff that introduces you to something you’d never have heard of elsewhere. I wish the TV channels were more like that.
Dr_Passmore on
Only needed if you watch/record live TV or use Player.
You can avoid paying £174 easily
Rekyht on
I love a good Reddit thread on the tv license, because it’s one of those issues that shows how out of touch this place is
Wizzardchimp on
Once this nonsense ends… we will look back and think what the hell were we doing paying for so long…
aukstais on
Except for the news, BBC really dont offer anything to the newer generation. And i don’t think that asking people who watch SKY sports to give BBC free money is a reasonable thing to do. It’s like if you pay SKY for the internet, you would also be required to pay the same amount to Openteach so everyone could have access to their infrastructure.
ToffeeAppleCider on
Give me a per month option now. It’s not fair that I pay a full year but only watch one or two things.
Gargoyn on
Unpopular opinion but I’ll say it.
Id rather they scrapped the licence fee and just took it out of taxesz simplify the whole thing and reduce costs trying to recoup funds.
Yes there are people who don’t watch BBC shows, but there are also people who barely use other government funded services
CyclingUpsideDown on
Replace it with a digital tax on broadband and fund the BBC from that pot.
Then sit back and enjoy the rage from the people who always take great delight in shouting about how they don’t pay the licence fee.
StoicType4 on
The BBC are in the death spiral of ever-diminishing customers with ever-increasing prices. Without course correction this will only end one way.
tykeoldboy on
The BBC need that extra 3.8% to pay the prize money in all the game shows the BBC now show
Sea-Caterpillar-255 on
People: billionaires control the media, it’s bias, we can’t be a democracy without news, kids should be able to watch something other than brain rot Chinese propaganda
People when asked to pay a few quid a week for an alternative: this is fascism, you can have the money when you pry it from my cold dead hands, I won’t pay!
People a year after it’s broken up and sold off: maybe we should have kept it.
chaircardigan on
I like the BBC and the licence fee. It’s an utter bargain for what you get access to.
Want some excellent entertainment? BBC 1 is your friend.
Got kids? Cbeebies.
In the car? Radio 1-5.
Live overseas in under an oppressive dictatorship? We have the world service.
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Ffs, they’re considering a rise when the real question is if they should exist.
They are pricing themselves out of the market, you just have to look at home many people have decided not to bother.
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Tbh, it’s pretty good value for money for 4 network TV channels, 6 national radio stations, loads of local stations, a huge website that’s the most popular in the country, iplayer and Sounds. It’s £15 a month with no ads, that’s better value than every single streaming service
A lot of the recent generations don’t consume media in the same way. Whether that shows, films or audio, and while there are certainly some generations that still consume it in a mechanism that the BBC take advantage of, there needs to be a shakeup on this exploitation that the BBC seem to be allowed to get away with.
It’s time to just end the license fee. More and more people are openly not paying it and there’s no value in giving capita nearly £100 p/a to legally harass people.
Just give it up BBC, no-one will be paying this in 10 years, The Licence fee is dead.
They could double the price for all I care.
Not paying it lol
We happily pay for Prime, Netflix & Spotify Premium. We don’t pay for that BBC TV Licence.
Nearly all our TVs (x7) launch straight into a Fire stick via HDMI; the BBC TV licence is done.
If it were up to me, I’d make 2 big changes – it would be just funded by regular taxation – and would stop trying to compete with the other channels for creating dross. It should focus on things that perhaps wouldn’t be commercially viable otherwise. Educational, niche, weird. Some of the little segments you get on Radio 4 are still like this, really out-there stuff that introduces you to something you’d never have heard of elsewhere. I wish the TV channels were more like that.
Only needed if you watch/record live TV or use Player.
You can avoid paying £174 easily
I love a good Reddit thread on the tv license, because it’s one of those issues that shows how out of touch this place is
Once this nonsense ends… we will look back and think what the hell were we doing paying for so long…
Except for the news, BBC really dont offer anything to the newer generation. And i don’t think that asking people who watch SKY sports to give BBC free money is a reasonable thing to do. It’s like if you pay SKY for the internet, you would also be required to pay the same amount to Openteach so everyone could have access to their infrastructure.
Give me a per month option now. It’s not fair that I pay a full year but only watch one or two things.
Unpopular opinion but I’ll say it.
Id rather they scrapped the licence fee and just took it out of taxesz simplify the whole thing and reduce costs trying to recoup funds.
Yes there are people who don’t watch BBC shows, but there are also people who barely use other government funded services
Replace it with a digital tax on broadband and fund the BBC from that pot.
Then sit back and enjoy the rage from the people who always take great delight in shouting about how they don’t pay the licence fee.
The BBC are in the death spiral of ever-diminishing customers with ever-increasing prices. Without course correction this will only end one way.
The BBC need that extra 3.8% to pay the prize money in all the game shows the BBC now show
People: billionaires control the media, it’s bias, we can’t be a democracy without news, kids should be able to watch something other than brain rot Chinese propaganda
People when asked to pay a few quid a week for an alternative: this is fascism, you can have the money when you pry it from my cold dead hands, I won’t pay!
People a year after it’s broken up and sold off: maybe we should have kept it.
I like the BBC and the licence fee. It’s an utter bargain for what you get access to.
Want some excellent entertainment? BBC 1 is your friend.
Got kids? Cbeebies.
In the car? Radio 1-5.
Live overseas in under an oppressive dictatorship? We have the world service.
It’s bloody awesome.