We don't watch much Beeb at all, mostly news with Strictly and Wimby plus the NFL output which we could get elsewhere. I do visit the website regularly though and rarely use the iPlayer as well. The website is very handy when you have a VPN and are overseas but that's another matter.
I don't like having to pay for what is effectively a tax for stuff I don't use, I accept the Beeb make quality stuff but that quality stuff seems to be done in conjunction with others like National Geo or Canal+ and if I want to watch the latest Attenborough or Lucy Worsley it's far more cost effective to buy the DVD and then sell on later.
Add to the fact we get our telly via Richard and Usain's company we are effectively paying for it all twice.
I think the older pensioner's should still get the licence for nowt, (I took part in the survey by the way) as I believe a lot of those over seventy-five are not in the personal or company pension bracket yet. That of course will change as time goes on and by the time I'm that age things may have swung significantly - of course if the younger people don't get their pensions sorted early, by the time they get to seventy-five (and are still working of course) we might have to look at giving free licences to them as the probable £6k a year cost of the fee by then might be a bit too much for them to afford!
Joking aside future funding must come from adverts, the Beeb already do a form of it already in the deadspace between programs, after the One Show for example you'll get 'adverts' for upcoming dramas and so on, adverts for 'apps' or reminders to pay your licence, BBC World use this time for real adverts.
Our daughter doesn't use the BBC at all, BBC3 is aimed at younger people but probably a fair portion of those watching the channel do so at mum and dad's so aren't contributing to the licence fee income, our daughter would opt out of paying the licence which is something we aim to do at some point, certainly I'm never going to pay £200 a year so once that point comes I'm gone.
I don't like having to pay for what is effectively a tax for stuff I don't use, I accept the Beeb make quality stuff but that quality stuff seems to be done in conjunction with others like National Geo or Canal+ and if I want to watch the latest Attenborough or Lucy Worsley it's far more cost effective to buy the DVD and then sell on later.
Add to the fact we get our telly via Richard and Usain's company we are effectively paying for it all twice.
I think the older pensioner's should still get the licence for nowt, (I took part in the survey by the way) as I believe a lot of those over seventy-five are not in the personal or company pension bracket yet. That of course will change as time goes on and by the time I'm that age things may have swung significantly - of course if the younger people don't get their pensions sorted early, by the time they get to seventy-five (and are still working of course) we might have to look at giving free licences to them as the probable £6k a year cost of the fee by then might be a bit too much for them to afford!
Joking aside future funding must come from adverts, the Beeb already do a form of it already in the deadspace between programs, after the One Show for example you'll get 'adverts' for upcoming dramas and so on, adverts for 'apps' or reminders to pay your licence, BBC World use this time for real adverts.
Our daughter doesn't use the BBC at all, BBC3 is aimed at younger people but probably a fair portion of those watching the channel do so at mum and dad's so aren't contributing to the licence fee income, our daughter would opt out of paying the licence which is something we aim to do at some point, certainly I'm never going to pay £200 a year so once that point comes I'm gone.
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