Should the TV Licence be scapped in England?

Question

Is a cheap service?

or is it

A Property Poll tax (and it should be paid out of the Income tax budget instead) ?

Answer 1

The TV licence should be scrapped. It's just another tax by a different name. If you look at the crap they put on telly, they can hardly justify charging over £100 a year for it.

Let them put adverts on, if they want.

Answer 2

I think people forget it also pays for the radionstations also. Such as Radio 1,2,3,4,5, etc. What about all the new freeview channels

It is expensive because most people will only use a few of the facilities offerd but as a package it is not bad although a little different from this historical extract:-

Once the war was over the BBC was able to re-organise broadcasting schedules. The General Forces Programme had proved to be very popular with audiences and when the service was closed in July 1945 the BBC decided to replace it with a similarly entertaining service, naming it The Light Programme which commenced using longwave on July 29th 1945. The BBC television service resumed in June 1946 while Radio Luxembourg returned with English programmes in July that same year. At this point the number of radio receiving licences had reached over 10 ½ million at a cost of £1 per licence. The combined television and radio receiving licence was £2 at this time.

Answer 3

Heh the BBC is so overrun with advertising they should be made to scrap the licence fee.

Its like they want it both ways, they make commercial revenue but on the back of the publics money.

Then theres all those threatning advertisements about not having one. If the license fee is such a great deal they should be singing the joys of having a publicly funded service and be open about where all the money is going.

Too bad you cant photocopy last years and say your only watch the repeats eh?

Answer 4

sentanta had the rites for the game they went t i ts the rites were resold the bbc didn't bother bidding (because they spent all their budget on a dance programme just so some posh bloke with a made up name can upset an actress no ones ever heard of by asking her if she was a terrorist and calling her a paki /) itv didn't want it because of the xfactor channel 5 wanted it but everyone laughed and said richard and judy on the digital channel watch had more viewers then five ever had. some internet broadcaster snapped it up probably thinking/hoping this would be the crunch match that england would need to win to secure the passage to south africa and then they could have made a killing reselling it to sky but England's all ready got to the world cup finals hardly any ones going to bother signing up for the broadcast so theres a chance they are going to make a big loss on the venture and i wouldn't be surprised after several crashes occur during the matches relay buffering the streaming every few minutes and loss of sound /picture due to poor bit rate they will also have to pay back a heck of a lot of people and then their end up going bust themselves

Answer 5

Yes,the B.B.C.is a top heavy big business,it pays excessive salaries to it's top people,also a lot of the presenters aren't worth watching,some of the programmes are rubbish,o.k.'every now and then they come up with a superb programme,lately though these are few and far between.In recent times the B.B.C.have had a very left wing leaning when reporting news,they should be politically neutral in all things.The B.B.C. should be self funding and not make money from license fees that the public are forced to pay.they should make revenue from advertising,as the independant television companies and commercial radio stations do.

Answer 6

They wont scrap it. Its a stealth tax. Share with the other channels that have to rely on advertising.

Try this make people that want it subscribe and see how many shell out. They paid fat funk in Vanessa Felts £20000 a months has a retainer for a year money well spent. If your blind you get £1.75 discount and if you don't pay they have people to find you. If you get something stolen you get a crime number to claim they are to busy . Well hes some information the police aren't interested they have know rights to entry any property.

Answer 7

This one has been going for ages. The BBC has just had its Royal Warrant extended so there is another ten years of the BBC.
I don't like the idea of the tax but the standard of television in general in the UK is quite high. It would be nice to see the BBC compete with other channels in a competitive market for a while and see how they do. £140 almost for two channels is a bit much. Unless, of course, one is in to period dramas and unfunny sitcoms.

Answer 8

why england only? should be scrapped right across the country, its a ridiculous amount of money to pay out, especially when most people watch channels other than the BBC and therefore have to suffer through adverts every 10-15 minutes

Answer 9

Scrap he BBC ,The government is considering raising the licence fee to £180

Answer 10

I don't object to paying for it, I object to paying the amount of it! How can they justify it?? I know most people have freeview, cable or sky now but the other channels like bbc3 should be on your normal tv. My mum pays as much as me for her licence but she can't watch the other channels. Why? Yet another thing they can't justify.