BBC TV licence to rise within months as Lisa Nandy announces ‘funding certainty’

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23 comments

  2. Pay more for inferior programming year on year?

  3. You get at least 3 channels of high-quality programming (subjective) and what seems like dozens of radio stations, podcasts and all sorts, all completely ad-free and independent, and the price rising by less than 50p per month makes the news. 🤷

  4. Long live the BBC and its journalistic independence!
    Sod corporate billionaire owned media!!!

  5. Cancelled ours years ago.
    Dont watch anything they make.

    Dont want to support their shitty company.

  7. I like the BBC, in principle. I think we *should* have a public service broadcaster that’s independent of government and objective in its political representation, that invests in UK creative talent, and is funded by some form of taxation.

    Whether the BBC is independent and objective is questionable (whether it ever has been is questionable; noble as Reith’s ambition to “educate the masses” might have been, the BBC has always been elitist).

    The BBC invests in UK talent but doesn’t seem to have remotely robust safeguarding protections for its junior talent or even some of its vastly experienced talent. I do not want my licence fee to be spent on enabling harassment and abuse. The latest revelations (as if they’re unexpected, lol) are an issue in an independent production company commissioned by the BBC, who ought to remember they’re supposed to be Auntie Beeb and take some responsibility for upholding strict morals.

    The licence fee is no longer an appropriate funding model, whatever. If people don’t want to watch the BBC, that’s fine. But restricting funding to a public service broadcaster based on a model that allows people to opt out is an affront to the democratic principles that the BBC was established to defend.

    Channel 4 has a commercially-funded public service broadcasting model, without the same constraint of objectivity as the BBC. No matter how badly the BBC has applied that principle, I think it would be wrong to abandon it. Fund the BBC from general taxation, instead of the licence fee or commercial interests.

  9. Just go online and declare you don’t use their service and don’t pay it. Simple

  10. Raise it as much as you want, I won’t be buying one..lol

  11. The venn diagram of people who love Jeremy Clarkson and hate the BBC is just a circle, and that’s suspect.

  12. Abolish the BBC. It’s just pure pro-Brexit propaganda at this point.

  13. I don’t watch live TV, haven’t for years, but pay the license fee anyway.

    I like the idea of the BBC, I like the world service and soft power influence it gives us, I like that it seems to annoy every group faily evenly, and I like the fact it’s a British institution. 

    Just to balance out the opposing voices a bit. I suspect there’s a lot of built up resentment from people after being forced to pay it for years but I don’t also wonder if it’s not another target to make Britain more isolated and less influential.

  14. I used to watch the BBC. Then I realised I didn’t need it … Not had it teoni(maybe more?) years and I haven’t noticed. As said, I can’t even remember when I cancelled it.

    I used to watch the BBC all the time ten years ago, but now…it’s not even streaming sites, it’s just the quality isn’t there. I’d rather watch Channel 4 for free (not live ofc)

  15. In view of what appears to be their current scheduling policy I am wondering if they would reciprocate by accepting a repeat of my current year’s licence

  17. Don’t like it don’t buy it, we moved to 100% streaming services 4 years ago after ditching sky, bbc programmes are rubbish, don’t care about live thing, still watching live sports and they cannot know anyway

  18. No problem funding it on the following conditions;

    No more shielding paedophiles.

    Equal political representation from all sides, even if you don’t like them.

    Stop shoving identity politics down our necks.

  19. I stopped paying TV licence 4 years ago. I wish I stopped paying way before that. Netflix, YouTube, and Channel 4 streaming is all I need.

    I regret contributing to Gary’s wages along with all the sexual predators the BBC shelter.

  20. I would happily pay £3-4 a month for the independent news and journalism, and sure keep CBBC or whatever for the kids.

    But I think they should sack off the programming. No one watches BBC shows anymore except pensioners. No one actually cares about match of the day or Gary Lineker. The whole organisation seems like a money pit. It should be hiring new talent and giving opportunities to people but instead keeps huge names on inflated salaries.

    Kill the whole thing, and restart from the ground up in my opinion.

  22. No need to pay

    If anyone comes around just start screaming Huw Edwards through the door and don’t let them in

  23. The rise was a given seeing as the BBC are labours biggest arselickers.

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