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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by funke_munke View Post
    Only if you use TV services. Mind you, my dad was hounded for years to get a tv license and even threatened with court proceedings, all the while not even owning a tv or radio. I think they just assume everyone watches television!
    Reminds me of the short story (By Philip K Dick? I think) about a man who was hounded to watch TV - when all he wanted to was to be allowed to read without watching the garbage that he couldnt even turn off.

    Think he ended up killing himself in the story.
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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    I really don't think i would be that bothered if the BBC introduced ads, it works for the other channels and they have some semi decent stuff, and if i'm honest i don't think i would miss any particular programme from the BBC if they switched it off altogether. I may be a tad bias as i generally don't watch that much TV, i think most of the broadcasting is pretty rubbish at times regardless of channel.

    I like having a big TV, i enjoy watching films on my telly - for that reason i would never get rid of it. However i'm really not pleased about having little choice but to pay extra for a service i really could live without.
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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    No objections to the license fee myself, doesnt represent that good a value, but is tollerable largely due to iPlayer and with stuff like Doctor Who, decent news coverage and looking forward to the decent F1 coverage again too.

    With all this recent talk of them cutting back and making savings etc tho. This is a monumental PR fail imo.

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by mehmeh View Post
    No objections to the license fee myself, doesnt represent that good a value, but is tollerable largely due to iPlayer .
    Except you don't actually need a Tv Licence to use iPlayer (yes really!):

    http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...ayer/tvlicence
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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    slightly off topic but who still watches black and white TV?? :s
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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by nvening View Post
    slightly off topic but who still watches black and white TV?? :s
    BBC did a piece last year, with over 250k people still have B&W licences. Mainly the older generation who watch rarely.

    TV licence is only need if you watch 'live' TV, or record programs. Tbh, my licence fee pays for stuff like iPlayer and F1, and I'm glad for them.

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by nvening View Post
    slightly off topic but who still watches black and white TV?? :s
    People keep it for show.. and in reality have things hooked to a 26" TFT monitor!

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    License fees should be scrapped.
    Govt. should fund BBC NEWS, BBC1 and BBC2 and scrap BBC3 and 4 - which are crap!
    Plus, BBC doesnt have any decent shows! Hustle is the only one I look forward to.

    I dont even watch TV - I download my shows and watch them.. kinda like a personal TV schedule
    MON - STARGATE ATLANTIS
    TUES - CHUCK
    WED - BURNING ZONE
    THURS - PRETENDER
    FRI - 24
    SUN - YOUNG HERCULES

    Why should I pay for something I dont use?

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    not watched live TV in years, having to pay for a tv license pisses me off

    just been reading that they've spent nearly 2 billion quid upgrading bbc central and doing the new bbc centre up here in manchester - how do you even burn through that much money without someone going "'old on a second lads, we're being 'ad 'ere!"

    Those buildings again, as this really is an astonishing expenditure on the public dime, that not even professional Beeb-bashers seem to have noticed. The Salford Quays megacity comes in at £877m, housing just 2,500 staff. It isn’t really near anywhere, but the plan is for it to become a "destination". The Broadcasting House renovation was no better, coming in five years late at well over a billion quid. As the Audit Office drily pointed out: "The BBC is not well placed to demonstrate value for money from the £2bn it has committed to spending on the three projects over their life."
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03...bbc3_bbc4_why/

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    hold on they just said they where cutting services... but asking for more money?

    Imagine going to the supermarket, paying more at the till then you expected then the people on the till taking stuff back off you....
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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    TBH the BBC isn't really advertless nowadays anyway - you just get annoying ads pushing things like Eastenders

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
    hold on they just said they where cutting services... but asking for more money?

    Imagine going to the supermarket, paying more at the till then you expected then the people on the till taking stuff back off you....
    I think the situation is they were needing to ask for money anyway, but wouldn't have been allowed to if they didn't also take steps at their end to improve the budget. So the resulting increase is smaller than it would otherwise have been.

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by mehmeh View Post
    No objections to the license fee myself, doesnt represent that good a value, but is tollerable largely due to iPlayer and with stuff like Doctor Who, decent news coverage and looking forward to the decent F1 coverage again too.
    Got imagine having to watch F1 with adverts!! oh yeah we had to put up with ad breaks when they ITV had the rights and the ad breaks usually where right in the good bits...

    I don't mind paying for a TV license as long as BBC produce quality content (horizons, top gear and anything else i usually make time to watch), eastenders (so i can have 30 mins without the misses nagging) and live sports although with sports i don't like it when BBC pay over the odds for tv rights.

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    Quote Originally Posted by Flash477 View Post
    TBH the BBC isn't really advertless nowadays anyway - you just get annoying ads pushing things like Eastenders
    This is very true, they only advertise there own stuff but they do have adverts.

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    Re: News - BBC license fee to rise to £145.50 next month

    A rise when they are shutting down Radio 6 and Asian Network? Pffftt, not on my watch. Strongly worded email here I come...

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