It would probably have to produce similar content to ITV, to try and get as much ad revenue as possible.
Yeah, like it’s doing remarkably well at the moment.
Unfortunately the BBC doesn’t have a choice any more.
Can’t remember the last time I watched anything on the BBC except for the news and tbf I could go elsewhere for that.
They’ve had like 10 years (5 if we are being generous) to work out a strategy to move away from their current operations and revenue methods. They know full well that the whole world is moving to a subscription /consume on demand way of life. They don’t have long to change before they become obsolete
I get the BBC news RSS feed for the sake of convenience, but I pretty much take everything they report with a fistful of salt.
As far as their other programming, I really wouldn’t know. I haven’t had live television for over 10 years. Someone did recommend me Happy Valley, which I watched and enjoyed. That was a BBC show.
Their behaviour with licence thugs is inexcusable, I’m surprised they don’t get more flack for it.
Tim Davie is himself a Tory and was a former councilor for them, I expected him to come out in support big the governments plans
It’s sad how, like the NHS and schools, the Tories have run the service down with continuous funding cuts (yes I know the NHS budget has technically increased, but *spending per head* has gone down in real terms).
It means now they can point to all the things that are wrong with it and use it as an excuse for privatisation, which as far as the BBC goes, would mean the breakup of the broadcaster.
The sad thing is how much support the Tories get from the left in this endeavour, largely because both sides believe fervently that the BBC is completely biased against them – proof if ever any was needed that it does a pretty good job of remaining neutral in an increasingly polarised society.
The cuts have affected things of course – the quality of reporting is nothing like it once was, particularly online, and it makes an increasing number of mistakes these days- still far far fewer than pretty much any other media source. But every time the BBC makes a slip up, the Fleet Street knives are out in force because every media baron would just LOVE to see it destroyed.
People really need to look across the pond and see what happens to media and thus to society without the presence of a neutral outlet. Wherever we are now, I guarantee that if we say goodbye to the Beeb, things here will get a lot worse.
The bbc has so much to offer. And much if it is to people who are ill served in other ways.
It’s heart breaking.
It already is failing so many calling for license fee to be scrapped and many watching netflix and prime etc instead
A nationalised BBC already fails it’s audiences. Big difference is that failed audiences would get an opportunity to pay for channels we want and save the best part of a couple of hundred quid on a licence fee.
The only reason we ever had broadcasters in the first place is because, up until about 20 years ago, broadcasting was the only possible technology available to send content to millions of homes.
That is no longer true. It is now possible for every home in the country to watch exactly what they want. exactly when they want.
Linear TV is rapidly approaching the end of its useful life. Low quality “daytime” programmes will surely become commoditised soon, like internet porn, it will be available for free everywhere. Nobody will be willing to pay for it.
Where does that leave the BBC in the next 10 years or so? They will certainly become mainly a streaming service, but they don’t really produce very much quality TV of their own, and they won’t be able to pad their content out with rubbish.
They might become a provincial version of Netflix, with good quality programs but hardly any of them. But that isn’t likely to be sustainable. Too many people will prefer the real Netflix.
The best they can probably hope for is to produce as much good stuff as they can and sell it to the Netflix et al. The global companies will always have the upper hand, because with more users they can buy more programmes for the same monthly fee.
Before I ditched the BBC, about 3 years ago, it had reached the point where there were sometimes whole weeks going by without a single program that I really wanted to watch. Compared to Netflix which is overflowing with decent programming. And yes, some of those programs are from the BBC, and some are very good, but I wouldn’t pay the same (or more) to *only* watch BBC programmes.
Don’t understand why they can’t just insert advertising like every other channel and be done with it. As a 25 year old, the content for young people and sport has been shite for years now. Scrapping BBC three but keeping bbc4 isn’t a good way to keep your future customers/subscribers interested.
The bbc chose to promote the Conservatives over many successive elections and well this is how they repay them for their loyalty to the cause. But you can’t then come cap in hand to the people you misrepresented, shunned and abused and expect them to save you from the side you chose. It’s time for the tory TV channel to go, they don’t want to fund you anymore and it’s not like you weren’t warned this would happen. Probably should have been more even handed, probably shouldn’t have sided with climate denial. Probably shouldn’t have repeatedly put out propaganda. We the populace have need for good indepedent news and TV channel, but not Tory news 24.
I don’t care about the BBC anymore.
The BBC bends over backwards to support the Tories and still gets shafted. Never be an appeaser – you merely get destroyed a bit later on when after you had the chance to fight back.
Just have adverts like every other channel does. They’ve also got income from Britbox as well.
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It would probably have to produce similar content to ITV, to try and get as much ad revenue as possible.
Yeah, like it’s doing remarkably well at the moment.
Unfortunately the BBC doesn’t have a choice any more.
Can’t remember the last time I watched anything on the BBC except for the news and tbf I could go elsewhere for that.
They’ve had like 10 years (5 if we are being generous) to work out a strategy to move away from their current operations and revenue methods. They know full well that the whole world is moving to a subscription /consume on demand way of life. They don’t have long to change before they become obsolete
I get the BBC news RSS feed for the sake of convenience, but I pretty much take everything they report with a fistful of salt.
As far as their other programming, I really wouldn’t know. I haven’t had live television for over 10 years. Someone did recommend me Happy Valley, which I watched and enjoyed. That was a BBC show.
Their behaviour with licence thugs is inexcusable, I’m surprised they don’t get more flack for it.
Tim Davie is himself a Tory and was a former councilor for them, I expected him to come out in support big the governments plans
It’s sad how, like the NHS and schools, the Tories have run the service down with continuous funding cuts (yes I know the NHS budget has technically increased, but *spending per head* has gone down in real terms).
It means now they can point to all the things that are wrong with it and use it as an excuse for privatisation, which as far as the BBC goes, would mean the breakup of the broadcaster.
The sad thing is how much support the Tories get from the left in this endeavour, largely because both sides believe fervently that the BBC is completely biased against them – proof if ever any was needed that it does a pretty good job of remaining neutral in an increasingly polarised society.
The cuts have affected things of course – the quality of reporting is nothing like it once was, particularly online, and it makes an increasing number of mistakes these days- still far far fewer than pretty much any other media source. But every time the BBC makes a slip up, the Fleet Street knives are out in force because every media baron would just LOVE to see it destroyed.
People really need to look across the pond and see what happens to media and thus to society without the presence of a neutral outlet. Wherever we are now, I guarantee that if we say goodbye to the Beeb, things here will get a lot worse.
The bbc has so much to offer. And much if it is to people who are ill served in other ways.
It’s heart breaking.
It already is failing so many calling for license fee to be scrapped and many watching netflix and prime etc instead
A nationalised BBC already fails it’s audiences. Big difference is that failed audiences would get an opportunity to pay for channels we want and save the best part of a couple of hundred quid on a licence fee.
The only reason we ever had broadcasters in the first place is because, up until about 20 years ago, broadcasting was the only possible technology available to send content to millions of homes.
That is no longer true. It is now possible for every home in the country to watch exactly what they want. exactly when they want.
Linear TV is rapidly approaching the end of its useful life. Low quality “daytime” programmes will surely become commoditised soon, like internet porn, it will be available for free everywhere. Nobody will be willing to pay for it.
Where does that leave the BBC in the next 10 years or so? They will certainly become mainly a streaming service, but they don’t really produce very much quality TV of their own, and they won’t be able to pad their content out with rubbish.
They might become a provincial version of Netflix, with good quality programs but hardly any of them. But that isn’t likely to be sustainable. Too many people will prefer the real Netflix.
The best they can probably hope for is to produce as much good stuff as they can and sell it to the Netflix et al. The global companies will always have the upper hand, because with more users they can buy more programmes for the same monthly fee.
Before I ditched the BBC, about 3 years ago, it had reached the point where there were sometimes whole weeks going by without a single program that I really wanted to watch. Compared to Netflix which is overflowing with decent programming. And yes, some of those programs are from the BBC, and some are very good, but I wouldn’t pay the same (or more) to *only* watch BBC programmes.
Don’t understand why they can’t just insert advertising like every other channel and be done with it. As a 25 year old, the content for young people and sport has been shite for years now. Scrapping BBC three but keeping bbc4 isn’t a good way to keep your future customers/subscribers interested.
The bbc chose to promote the Conservatives over many successive elections and well this is how they repay them for their loyalty to the cause. But you can’t then come cap in hand to the people you misrepresented, shunned and abused and expect them to save you from the side you chose. It’s time for the tory TV channel to go, they don’t want to fund you anymore and it’s not like you weren’t warned this would happen. Probably should have been more even handed, probably shouldn’t have sided with climate denial. Probably shouldn’t have repeatedly put out propaganda. We the populace have need for good indepedent news and TV channel, but not Tory news 24.
I don’t care about the BBC anymore.
The BBC bends over backwards to support the Tories and still gets shafted. Never be an appeaser – you merely get destroyed a bit later on when after you had the chance to fight back.
Just have adverts like every other channel does. They’ve also got income from Britbox as well.