Who thinks a T.V.licence is a waste of money and why?

Answer 1

I do. We get very few quality programmes. Now we have the Digital channels which the BBC cannot compete with,so they continually show repeats over again. They use the Licence fee to pay foul mouthed scruffy idiots like Johnathon Ross 18 Million!! I suppose we shouldn't expect anything else really,we, the general public,just let everyone screw us for money left right and centre! Do we object or make a noise about it? NO. We have a little grumble but continue to pay for these things. Why do these companies/organisations manage to get away with it? Because they can!

Answer 2

To answer, I will give you a Cut & Paste of one of my blog entries. The full link is shown below.

I've just thrown away my original post. I was going to post a few interesting bits and pieces related to my scribblings. However, as usual, found myself back at the BBC site after a random synapse misfunctioned and I got sidetracked. I read someone making a claim as to a 'news' event and was sensationalising and generalising like their life depended upon it. My first instinct was to verify the reporting using the BBC.

It was just one of my many dips in and out of this great institution online, on the radio and on TV.

I l learned about a small milestone for the BBC. On June 7th 1946, BBC Television started up again after a break for the war. They started up by broadcasting the same Mickey Mouse cartoon they were showing when the war started. BBC online marked the event with an interesting article in their magazine section. Any excuse to show a repeat, eh Auntie?

Another contribution to my education came in the car, listening to the radio.According to Simon Mayo, the Victorians used to call a work room which was kept in a state of untidiness a 'SLUTTERY'. Online dictionaries give a much less flattering definition that is nowhere near as romantic.

Of course, Simon Mayo works on BBC Radio Five Live.


In modern Britain we all like to have a bit of a guffaw up our sleeves whenever we see a coat of arms. After all, they do appear a bit stuffy, a bit past it and belonging to a different age and class. But that Motto : NATION SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO NATION - now that really is worth thinking about!

The great thing about the BBC is that it has managed to resist joining in with the way the rest of the media chooses to operate. It does appear to try and tread a path that retains a level of objectivity. For the most part, it knows the difference between reporting and editorialising and normally separates the two. For that I am greatful.


As the BBC never tires of telling us, it can provide these services because of the unique way it is funded. Evertone in Britain who owns a TV pays an annual license fee that goes to the BBC to pay. Because of this, the BBC doesn't need to bow to commercial pressures and concentrate on fufilling its charter.

Sure, there are pressures from Government - sometimes intense like in the run up to the Iraq war - but even so, if there is a more trustworthy source for reporting, I have yet to find it.

Perhaps more importantly, it offers up a news service that is trusted by others outside of the United Kingdom. Truly speaking unto other nations.

We are lucky to have a free press. We are lucky to have the BBC.

I tell myself that the price of this freedom is eternal vigilence - that is why I'll have a pop at Aunty and why I write and complain when I believe they haven't met their own high standards.


Above all, I believe that motto. If everyone in the world is getting news they believe and trust. Every time us Brits go abroad we benefit from that belief and trust. I'd like to also think that the BBC also helps to make war that little less likely - well, obviously there are exceptions to every rule.

Answer 3

It's a complete waste of money!

I watch sky and never watch any BBC channel so why should I pay for it?
Why can't the BBC just put ad's on and then no more license!

LoL XxX

Answer 4

TV licencing is a carbuncle from the early days of TV, its outdated, obnoxious and should be removed... people... mainly women go to jail for not paying for one... my vote... Total waste of my money!

Answer 5

Waste of money because it funds a bloated unaccountable biased bunch of lefties.

Answer 6

Have you watched a life of grime lately? It is prime time BBC television.

I thought you needed a licence to have a gun, drive a car, fly a plane, run a pub,

BUT TO WATCH TV ????????????????

GET RID OF THE BBC AND LET US WATCH FOR FREE

Answer 7

don't pay it and they send out letters and if they send someone round don't answer your door to them. It is a complete burn to have to watch old programmes and the BBC makes £millions every year in DVD sales and sales to other countries so why should we fund that!??

Answer 8

cos there is F all on the TV
EVER
i only have 4 channels
i refuse to get digital. i go to my m8 n they have freeveiw what a crock of sh*t sky is ssssooooooooooooo!!!! bad it is in no way worth 50 quid a month 4 repeat. after repeat........................
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if they want me to have it so bad then give it to me they are making enough money selling the bandwidth to the mobile company's etc

we ave t pay till 2015 when the reassess the TV licencing again the will only say good idea? yes? we'll keep it

the dirty fu*kers

Answer 9

I do, because we already have to pay for the tv, that should be enough. I also think water bills are a con, why should we have to pay to have rain.

Answer 10

Absolutely

I watch Sky all the time yet BBC get my money.

For what?

A load of crappy reality shows and repeats!