Watching Tim Davie (current Director General) I think the BBC is in good hands. He seems a decent bloke (I've never met him though I've met and sometimes known well most DG's). The BBC is a brilliant organisation and has to battle almost all the rest of the media due to being funded by us, not by commercial investors. As such it needs to be protected.

He is behind the green screen?

www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-blasted-green-screen-scandal

I certainly hope the BBC is in good hands; people are quick to moan, but we would soon know the difference it makes were it no longer there...

BBC is staying but the TV licence days are numbered.

The BBC has more nominations than any other channel for the BAFTA awards.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68614794

If we didn't have a TV licence how else would you fund it? You can't have a subscription service because you can't put broadcast tv behind a password protected paywall, let alone all the radio channels. People moan because they "have" to pay a licence fee, even if they don't watch it. Well they don't actually, if they don't have a TV, or watch iplayer on a device then they don't have to pay for a licence. Also the some of the licence fee goes to the other freeview channels.

I think advertising would ruin the BBC and the value of advertising is becoming less and less. General Taxation is another idea, but then even people without a TV would complain about using it.

Yes I agree Robbie a licence is needed and advertising would mean it was just another commercial channel, defeating the whole point. I would continue paying my fee for Radios 4 & 3 alone.

robbiex wrote:
The BBC has more nominations than any other channel for the BAFTA awards.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68614794

If we didn't have a TV licence how else would you fund it? You can't have a subscription service because you can't put broadcast tv behind a password protected paywall, let alone all the radio channels. People moan because they "have" to pay a licence fee, even if they don't watch it. Well they don't actually, if they don't have a TV, or watch iplayer on a device then they don't have to pay for a licence. Also the some of the licence fee goes to the other freeview channels.

I think advertising would ruin the BBC and the value of advertising is becoming less and less. General Taxation is another idea, but then even people without a TV would complain about using it.

I like the idea of ads everyone else has to sit through them when they watch ITV dramas. Freeview is set to close by 2030 to make way for mobile signals. Then Freeview TV will be streamed over the Internet like Sky TV is now, the tech for a BBC subscription service will be the same that Sky TV use for Sky Box Office.

I do know people that just evade the licence (who can blame them) but I also know people who are cord cutters so they just watch things on Roku. There is so many OTT services now and cheaper to pay than the telly tax. When I see students in coffee shops they talk about Netflix and Disney Plus not BBC or ITV.


I not in favour to be forced to pay for things I don't use. Where I live Freeview don't work anyway not even the FM radios. I could have TV if I paid for to Freesat dish installed or Sky TV like that is going to happen. Broadband is dodgy is here anyway, so watching Sky will be tricky.

We get heaps of BBC programs in Oz. It's on par with our version modeled off the BBC, the ABC which is the most viewed TV channel and most trusted.

It was always a mistake having a TV License to fund it. Just should be funded out of consolidated revenue and it cost you pennies a day for a top notch service is how they sell the ABC.