Lisa Nandy said this regards the latest hike;

"The BBC provides much-needed programming for households across the country, including children's education, world-class entertainment and trusted news for all people in all parts of the UK. I want to see it thrive for decades to come".

No Lisa, I think you'll find this is a very small minority view nowadays. Childrens's TV decimated, world class entertainment, where?, and trusted news replaced by agenda seeking reporting from a narrow political angle. Thrive for decades to come?, it won't and it can't, the new broadcasting landscape will force that change and is already well underway. People are throwing the licence away in their hundreds of thousands annually now and this will increase further. The current course cannot sustain no matter how much you talk it up.

My TV switches on ok with a TV tax. The TV is only made from plastic and some circuit boards.

MPs and the MSM are so out of the public that it's no longer a joke but farcical.
People are switching off the TV for streaming services and fed up that every white male is either absent, an idiot, racist or married to Black or Asian.

Also, the government gives the BBC a huge chunk every year on top of the TV licence. Not forgetting so many BBC celebrities are perverts or just immoral.

The BBC and the rest of the MSM can fuck off.

In America, there is no TV licence but the FTA channels have a ton of free sports without a cable subscription.

I agree with Lisa Nandy for once. The BBC is a great institution. There are bad things about the BBC for sure, but it is respected the world over and you would miss it if it goes. Without it we're left with channels full of adverts, propaganda, banality. I want to watch tv on a big television, not a laptop screen with a mouse, skipping adverts every 10 seconds with poor quality pictures and lots of distractions like comments underneath. I think Bob Dylan has the right idea. Put your phone in a pouch when you go to his concert and lock it away until the concert is over. Its not in its heyday of the 70s, but still it gives us Line of Duty, Happy Valley, Wolf Hall, Asia, Masterchef and much much more. People I know people that pay £100+ per month for sty including sports and movies etc, so £174 year is a bargain, less than 50p day. You can't make the BBC a subscription service, because you can't put passwords on broadcast tv channels.

I'd rather keep my 50p per day. Podcasts are now the new talk radio.

robbiex wrote:
I agree with Lisa Nandy for once. The BBC is a great institution. There are bad things about the BBC for sure, but it is respected the world over and you would miss it if it goes. Without it we're left with channels full of adverts, propaganda, banality. I want to watch tv on a big television, not a laptop screen with a mouse, skipping adverts every 10 seconds with poor quality pictures and lots of distractions like comments underneath. I think Bob Dylan has the right idea. Put your phone in a pouch when you go to his concert and lock it away until the concert is over. Its not in its heyday of the 70s, but still it gives us Line of Duty, Happy Valley, Wolf Hall, Asia, Masterchef and much much more. People I know people that pay £100+ per month for sty including sports and movies etc, so £174 year is a bargain, less than 50p day. You can't make the BBC a subscription service, because you can't put passwords on broadcast tv channels. The problem I have Robbie is that it's enforced whether someone chooses to watch the BBC or not. It's not as it was when we had just 4 terrestrial channels. There is You Tube, Netflix, Prime, and gaming of course. Imagine the outcry if you had to pay a Netflix sub and didn't watch Netflix. As for broadcast channels the beeb could just adopt a subscription service for its iplayer?

Not necessarily, if you don't have a tv, rhen you don"t have to pay a licence fee. I don't have kids at school, but I don'f complain abou paying taxes to suppory schools.

terrible for the poor who cannot afford Netflix etc and have to rely on the BBC.

It should be funded like the ABC in Australia..via consolidated revenue and a tax of about 23 cents a day.

Just 5 years ago I would probably have agreed fully with your opening comment here Robbie. But no longer. For me the BBC has finally been found out. It no longer seems to understand the real Britain that it is broadcasting to anymore like it used to.

The point about subs to Sky and Netflix, they are free choice. I don't want them and haven't got them. I watch virtually no BBC televsion at all any more, not by some deliberate decision not to, just because it no longer offers anything that appeals to me, but still you have to pay for what you don't consume. Just imagine going down Tesco's for the weekly shop and being made to pay for the fresh meat being on the shelves even though you are a vegan and not even buying it.

GM your podcasts comment is accurate. This was proven big time with the Josh Rogan podcast in the recent election wasn't it, that was deemed a major big deal for Trump to do, and where on any talk radio would anyone ever get 3 hours talk time like that. People are supposed to have short attention spans and want everything in soundbite little pieces, but that proved otherwise. I can't think of a standard radio show that would have proved so effective.