O/T what is the point of the BBC

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  1. Xer

    Xerxes Well-Known Member

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    Apart from its crap news, they cannot even follow programming with the Radio Times (eared my money there). Switched on to watch Uni Challenge and get some cartoon supposed scheduled for an hour later.
     
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    Boooooo

    Davey out!
     
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    To tell people what to believe
     
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    john coucom Well-Known Member

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    Tell play endless repeats
     
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    Planet Earth, and any documentary with David Attenborough...
     
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    To engage Capita to send me the same letters over and over.
     
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    Not sure why they did it as they did but it looks like they shuffled things around to fit in the June Whitfield tribute.
     
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    One of the main points for me is to get some respite from the f**king awful advertising.
    They do also make some stunning programmes and their sports coverage is way better than ITV.
    It’s a shame they don’t provide test match cover.
     
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    well worth the license fee - radio stations 5, 4, 6 music and deedar. usually something decent on bbc2 or bbc4.
     
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    Potts means Points .
     
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    Xerxes theres a lot of right wing minded people in the country that dont like the BBC why i just can not work out, i dont think you are one of them but your against them for the rescheduling of a program is a bit thin dont you think as other networks do the same from time to time.
     
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    At least they don't stick the appalling (and often incomprehensible) "FYI Daily" halfway through every bloody film.
     
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    Living where I do at the mercy of blooming useless Irish telly I wish to god we could get the BBC here.
     
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    Get rammell on
     
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    The BBC exists to perpetuate itself. Its sole purpose is to ensure nobody trims back the corporation as should have happened long ago.

    The BBC could exist on a fraction of its current gargantuan budget. In today's modern world, with the rise of on-demand services, and the increased consumption of internet media such as Twitch and YouTube, especially amongst younger viewers, the importance and relevance of the BBC is dwindling. The BBC craftily put their content online, then lobbied to have viewing it branded a loophole, probably to try to shape the future landscape so that anybody with a computer will need to pay the telly tax.

    The BBC's own figures show they spend around £745m on BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, CBBC and CBeebies. With around 26 million licences, at £40 a go there'd be more than enough to cover the balance. You have to wonder then why we're paying £150.

    I want rid and I'm not ashamed to say it. When you then take into account the obscene salaries paid to the likes of Linekar etc, I really get quite angry about it all. Reduce the cost or make it an opt-in subscription service.
     
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    It's an opinion my friend. I don't agree, think the BBC do some decent stuff, have you watched "Trust" from this year?? Best thing I've seen on tv for years. I used to holiday in northern italy in the early seventies when I was a kid and the attention to detail was awesome in the series. I suppose it's question of context. A basic Sky package is £24 ish (depending on when you call them) and I find a lot of what they offer is either garbage or recycled mainstream tv from two decades prior
     
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    100% agree.
     
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    BBC tha *****. Get Rammell on.
     
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    Do Sky actually commission any decent drama? It seems to be either Sports, films/recycled American Network programming.

    At least Netflix and Amazon are creating/commissioning programmes often in partnership with other Production companies/studios and TV (including BBC)
     
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    Disagree completely.

    The bbc produce a lot of high quality content across all genres. Tv, radio, online. Most of which will pass most of us by; a lot of which won’t be of interest to most. But they range from BBC3 reality trash tv to high brow stuff on radio 4; good quality drama and comedy programming, their sports coverage for what they get the rights to is generally better than everyone else.

    The fact it is a non-commercial entity and is funded the way it is leads to it being held to account a lot more than it otherwise would be. Maybe not enough - but still.

    I find bbc news and sport online to be generally the most detailed and go to them most often.

    It is a lot less than perfect and there are obvious arguments about political agenda - but they are more neutral than Sky and the ‘news’papers.
     
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