LakotaDakota Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) If all of the BBC services moved to an optional subscription fee of £12.99 per month how many of you would actually pay it? The only thing i watch on BBC 1 is Dr Who and anything else is usually stuff like the odd James May toy series etc and the odd old music show/doc on BBC 4. Radio wise i listen to the local non league teams commentary & sometimes have radio4/5 on overnight but that is it. Is it worth £13 per month to me? No but i would probably pay it anyway for the convenience of having it for the few things i do use it for. There is no reason at all for them to be paying people 2 million quid per year for presenting tv/radio shows though. They are not competing for viewing figures or avertising revenue so why do they need Chris Evans / Gary Lineker etc. Do they seriously think paying Lineker 2 million quid means more people will watch MOTD instead of paying Mark Chapman/Gabby Logan etc 200k? And what does it matter anyway if less people watch, They are not losing any revenue. People are watching it for the football, not the idiots between the football. Same with the radio, If it is a public service why does it matter if 500,000 people or 1 million people listen to some eejit talking crap & playing a few songs on the breakfast show. Edited June 13, 2019 by LakotaDakota 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 13, 2019 Author Moderator Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, LakotaDakota said: If all of the BBC services moved to an optional subscription fee of £12.99 per month how many of you would actually pay it? Me absolutely but why would this happen, The BBC is currently free to air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 29 minutes ago, bickster said: Me absolutely but why would this happen, The BBC is currently free to air If the license fee was scrapped for example and the only way to get BBC was via subscription like sky sports etc. For all the discussion about it does this & that but i don't want to pay the license etc how many would actually be willing to pay the 12.99 to keep all ofthe BBC tv & radio services. I don't really like being forced to pay the license but as i said i use it for a few things that i could justify paying the money for so even given a choice i would pay anyway. This would change if they stopped doing non-league commentaries though and it would then be immediately cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I would gladly pay it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted June 13, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) Assuming nothing about the BBC changed except the way it was paid for, I'd pay that subscription. But it almost certainly would change because of it. And because of that I'd rather it maintains its unique funding method. Edited June 13, 2019 by Chindie 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Hmmm, it's interesting, I would never consider any sort of 'other' subscription TV. I just don't rate television, film and 'big sport' as worth adding costs to the license. I think the kids have got Netflix, but all those others, the Sky channels or google prime or whatever, not a chance. I simply wouldn't bother. I guess if I lived in the USA I'd have whatever 'free' local community stuff was up there. But yeah, I'd probably pay the monthly for a re modelled BBC subscription. Trouble is, people would unsubscribe, so my subscription would go up, or the service down. Plus, you can guarantee the government wouldn't allow other fundraising streams, so it would be strangled off. So they can please their dark Lord Murdoch. Totally agree on the wages thing. If Norton and Lineker are now seven figure salaries, that's fine. Stick someone else in the seat. Personally, I think more trouble is heading in the direction of ITV. Their advertising revenue must be taking a right smack on the nose these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, bickster said: Me absolutely but why would this happen, The BBC is currently free to air hold on a second. Their employees get paid right? Who pays for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted June 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2019 Just now, Mic09 said: hold on a second. Their employees get paid right? Who pays for that? free to air means the staff live on air, they all have other jobs to make ends meet Lineker is a WWII listening post and Clare Balding works the door at Klub Kont 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 13 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: free to air means the staff live on air, they all have other jobs to make ends meet Lineker is a WWII listening post and Clare Balding works the door at Klub Kont Good. For a second there I thought it might have been the tax payer and it's not free to air. Thank goodness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, bickster said: free to air 18 minutes ago, Mic09 said: Who pays for that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 13, 2019 Moderator Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: smack on the nose If Gove becomes minister of telly and culture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 15 minutes ago, blandy said: If Gove becomes minister of telly and culture. No, I think we have to draw a line somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 13, 2019 Author Moderator Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Chindie said: maintains its unique funding method. It's actually not that unique. They have a similar model in Ireland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted June 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2019 Just now, bickster said: It's actually not that unique. They have a similar model in Ireland free to Eire 6 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 minute ago, bickster said: It's actually not that unique. They have a similar model in Ireland Yes I'm just aping the cliché of the way BBC figures talk about their funding - they always use the 'because of the unique way the BBC is funded...' turn of phrase. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 7 hours ago, LakotaDakota said: You don't need to prove you haven't watched anything. They need to prove that you have... Yep! And there’s pretty much no way of them doing that aside from sending a licensing officer to politely ask if they can take a look inside your property. You, of course, can tell them to **** right off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 15 hours ago, bickster said: It's actually not that unique. They have a similar model in Ireland in Germany they have the rundfunkbeitrag, 18 euros a month to watch TV / listen to radio, that 18 euros a month gets spread across 9 terrestrial TV stations which then also split in various ways regionally and all of them have adverts, all of them have pretty good streaming services too, so basically 200 quid a year for subsidization (the rest made up from advertising) they do have far far more content though, especially sports, satellite TV seems to have less of a monopoly they counter the not watching tv / watching netflx argument by going in pretty hard on radio, your car has a radio, your mobile phone can play radio etc everyone has radio unfortunately the letters they keep sending me explaining all of this is are in German and I cant read German so I haven't got a clue what they're on about 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 14, 2019 Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2019 31 minutes ago, villa4europe said: the letters they keep sending me explaining all of this is are in German and I cant read German There's always the option if you've got one of those smartphone thingies of using a translate app - point the camera at the letter and the app translates it into english. I did it recently for a French Tax return form and it's like a magic thing. Er, back on topic, um, Teletubbies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 18, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 18, 2019 I do wonder how the BBC squares having a single party debate on at primetime, which then features un-countered claims about the Opposition, and impartiality. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 6 minutes ago, Chindie said: I do wonder how the BBC squares having a single party debate on at primetime, which then features un-countered claims about the Opposition, and impartiality. Just compare it to the time that they did that hour-long, Prime Time special feature with the potential Labour party leaders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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