O/T what is the point of the BBC

I think you’ll find they rearranged to show some tributes to June Whitfield.

My grandmother, of a similar vintage, slightly younger, was pleased to see they’d done that.

They can’t please everyone, but given how much success her shows had on the bbc network, I think she deserved that respect.

They showed a Terry and June on BBC1 too. It hasn’t aged that well.

 

But as I pointed out above, you could cover the budget for BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, CBBC and CBeebies at £40 per licence, and have ample to spare. You're then paying £110 for what? The Olympics and half the World Cup and Euros every four years - £440.

If the BBC want to keep producing their programmes they should turn to a subscription model, and let the people who want to watch pay for it, rather than taxing everybody to spend £89 ******* million on the new set for EastEnders. The BBC already sell a lot of their content abroad (Doctor who etc), so the marquee shows would probably still exist.

As for the website, that's by far the most egregious area in which they have overstepped their remit. On the front page today is a story about a bloke who is eating too much cheese. If you want unbiased news head to Reuters or the AP directly.

 

There's radio as well as TV. Radio budget in 2016 was £653m.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/14/how-does-the-bbc-spend-its-5bn-in-licence-fee-money/

£2.5m for Graham Norton vs £13m for the whole of Radio 6 Music looks hard to justify, mind.

 

The only point of the BBC is to broadcast fake news to deflect to what this Government is really doing.

 

For everything I said about TV, it applies threefold to Radio, which quite honestly no longer should be supported by public money. Thankfully this generation will probably see the end of it, between podcasts and on demand services such as Spotify, I find it bemusing that anybody would still value radio as a form of media, and I have no inclination to pay for it.

 

It's not public money though, is it? If one wants to only use on-demand services then there's no need to pay a license fee. It's an optional service, same as Spotify, etc. It may be more ingrained in our culture and habits but it's not compulsory.

 

I mean you can argue the semantics if you like, but it is obviously a tax. Denying it is like saying alcohol duty isn't a tax because you can drink Pepsi, but having to pay for the BBC because I happen to watch BT Sport is daft.

 

You are required by law to have one if you watch or record live Tv regardless of if you use the services of the Beeb.

 

I've stayed out of this so far; there's been some well-argued points, made eloquently, even though I don't agree with many of them. The points here about radio, though, are so wide of the mark it's unreal. Have you actually made any attempt to look at the reach of BBC radio?!