Add £13 per month to every broadband bill or special income tax addition to equal £13 per month per household? No thanks. I don’t have a telly and don’t want to pay an extra £13 because other people might want to watch repeats of Only Fools and Horses or Songs of Praise. Just read a book or something.
That’s for the BBC to figure out. If people do not watch the BBC, or care for it at all, they should not need to pay for it. The BBC has slowly evolved into something the entire nation cannot get behind… and that’s their own fault
A monthly charge for those that want it like for all the other services.
I know that their fabulous radio content will go down the tubes, and that’s a bad thing.
A non-Conservative government who doesn’t want to scrap the BBC.
Make them a commercial station and leave it to its own devices.
I can see them quickly pivoting to make iPlayer a paid for service and offering it globally
Just directly fund it out of taxation. Deal with the question of this giving govts’ still more influence over the BBC by index linking funding to inflation, and making any future changes to funding etc subject to approval by a citizens jury selected at random.
Come to that, make all appointments to the BBC board of governors etc likewise subject to approval by a citizens jury.
I have zero issue with the concept of the TV licence, given how much was spent by the Govt and the BBC creating the tv and radio network in the U.K. to begin with.
In fact, we should have more things that need licences. Like dogs.
The BBC news website should refurbish itself to look like the sun, metro, mirror or daily mail – but then actually have good reporting, with decent headlines.
BBC sounds should become a subscription service competing with apple and Spotify on podcasts and music. Here they can include BBC music stations like radio 3 & 6. If you have a license, you listen without adverts.
BBC studios should become for-hire. Providing services to the government like BBC world, Radio-1/2, Government news, Parliament channel, etc.
BBC radio 4 should become a 24/7 podcast live channel. Programs that air via FM will have adverts. E.g. if you listen to Woman’s Hour, one segment is removed to make space for adverts. The Today show has adverts before/after the News and Thought of the day becomes a sponsored message. If you listen via the BBC app you get the extra segment from Woman’s Hour, the adverts before/after the news are replaced with adverts about BCC radio 4.
BBC news journalist become an independent agency, competing with the Canadian owned Thomson Reuters and American owned Bloomberg and Associated Press. With the principal of good journalist standard (not influenced by American law) shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group, or faction.
I’m sometimes glad that I’m getting older and won’t perhaps be around long enough to see us become more and more a poor man’s echo of the worst of the US.
Having advertisement or subscription. Dont hide behind another tax
2% contribution from council tax to cover service obligations local news/radio etc. Rest from commercial means with, legal limits set on duration of adverts and frequency.
People generally have mixed views about the BBC. It’s not really an ‘all bad’ or ‘all good’ ,thing.
I think core services like BBC News, BBC 1 and 2 should be funded out of taxation. The News aspect is the last bastion of impartial televised news with no ‘entertainment’ aspect attached to it or bias. News as it is.
This crucial aspect of it needs to be saved somehow. I think it’s so important that it could have real political implications if it were to fall to subscription only.
Look at America, it’s CNN or Fox. There’s no real impartial service! People then wonder why America is so divided…
People take it for granted but Impartial news is becoming harder and harder to find every year.
Extra BBC services then could be offered through the licence fee.
Adverts or subscription. Shove a tax onto broadband services, and you’d basically be doing a cuntier version of the license with no opt-out.
BCC – British Culture Contribution whacked on your council tax bill (ala PCC etc.).
Something that evil might just fly with the right naming, image and marketing…
Some options:
1. Silence.
2. Fewer rubbish programs like we all bake and shit.
3. A 75% reduction of wages for everyone at the BBC who earns more than Emily Maitlis.
4. The BBC would be in a position to attract 2 or 3 major, reliable sponsors for a long lasting sponsor deal.
A steaming pile of manure could replace the BBC and it would be an improvement.
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Add £13 per month to every broadband bill or special income tax addition to equal £13 per month per household? No thanks. I don’t have a telly and don’t want to pay an extra £13 because other people might want to watch repeats of Only Fools and Horses or Songs of Praise. Just read a book or something.
That’s for the BBC to figure out. If people do not watch the BBC, or care for it at all, they should not need to pay for it. The BBC has slowly evolved into something the entire nation cannot get behind… and that’s their own fault
A monthly charge for those that want it like for all the other services.
I know that their fabulous radio content will go down the tubes, and that’s a bad thing.
A non-Conservative government who doesn’t want to scrap the BBC.
Make them a commercial station and leave it to its own devices.
I can see them quickly pivoting to make iPlayer a paid for service and offering it globally
Just directly fund it out of taxation. Deal with the question of this giving govts’ still more influence over the BBC by index linking funding to inflation, and making any future changes to funding etc subject to approval by a citizens jury selected at random.
Come to that, make all appointments to the BBC board of governors etc likewise subject to approval by a citizens jury.
I have zero issue with the concept of the TV licence, given how much was spent by the Govt and the BBC creating the tv and radio network in the U.K. to begin with.
In fact, we should have more things that need licences. Like dogs.
The BBC news website should refurbish itself to look like the sun, metro, mirror or daily mail – but then actually have good reporting, with decent headlines.
BBC sounds should become a subscription service competing with apple and Spotify on podcasts and music. Here they can include BBC music stations like radio 3 & 6. If you have a license, you listen without adverts.
BBC studios should become for-hire. Providing services to the government like BBC world, Radio-1/2, Government news, Parliament channel, etc.
BBC radio 4 should become a 24/7 podcast live channel. Programs that air via FM will have adverts. E.g. if you listen to Woman’s Hour, one segment is removed to make space for adverts. The Today show has adverts before/after the News and Thought of the day becomes a sponsored message. If you listen via the BBC app you get the extra segment from Woman’s Hour, the adverts before/after the news are replaced with adverts about BCC radio 4.
BBC news journalist become an independent agency, competing with the Canadian owned Thomson Reuters and American owned Bloomberg and Associated Press. With the principal of good journalist standard (not influenced by American law) shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group, or faction.
I’m sometimes glad that I’m getting older and won’t perhaps be around long enough to see us become more and more a poor man’s echo of the worst of the US.
Having advertisement or subscription. Dont hide behind another tax
2% contribution from council tax to cover service obligations local news/radio etc. Rest from commercial means with, legal limits set on duration of adverts and frequency.
People generally have mixed views about the BBC. It’s not really an ‘all bad’ or ‘all good’ ,thing.
I think core services like BBC News, BBC 1 and 2 should be funded out of taxation. The News aspect is the last bastion of impartial televised news with no ‘entertainment’ aspect attached to it or bias. News as it is.
This crucial aspect of it needs to be saved somehow. I think it’s so important that it could have real political implications if it were to fall to subscription only.
Look at America, it’s CNN or Fox. There’s no real impartial service! People then wonder why America is so divided…
People take it for granted but Impartial news is becoming harder and harder to find every year.
Extra BBC services then could be offered through the licence fee.
Adverts or subscription. Shove a tax onto broadband services, and you’d basically be doing a cuntier version of the license with no opt-out.
BCC – British Culture Contribution whacked on your council tax bill (ala PCC etc.).
Something that evil might just fly with the right naming, image and marketing…
Some options:
1. Silence.
2. Fewer rubbish programs like we all bake and shit.
3. A 75% reduction of wages for everyone at the BBC who earns more than Emily Maitlis.
4. The BBC would be in a position to attract 2 or 3 major, reliable sponsors for a long lasting sponsor deal.
A steaming pile of manure could replace the BBC and it would be an improvement.