why are we still paying for a TV license when we cant choose who the BBC employ as entertainers or staff?

Question

i dont want to choose the personnel but i would like the choice of allowing it to go commercial so it pays for itself

Answer 1

you pay to buy cheese at Tesco, but you have no say in who the manufacturer or Tesco employ, or what they are paid, what's the difference? The BBC have a charter and are expected to aboide by it. They have meetings all over the country where you can go and have your say about their services, and you can alweays write to them and complain if you don't like something. Everyone pays a license for the right to RECEIVE the BBC, doesn't matter whether you watch it or not, but you can still receive it.

Answer 2

It is a bit like when we vote for a political party and then they make the policy decisions, and chose who should be what Minister - they have the expertise. The BBC would grind to a halt if every member of the public put in their view of what should be on TV, we don't all have the same taste. The BBC employs media and TV professionals to do this to their best ability for us, no, they don't always get it right, but I think they still produce most of our best TV. I completely support both the BBC and the Licence Fee system.

Answer 3

Totally agree! I can't see why we have to pay for the beeb when we don't even watch it. I don't get to watch TV much and when i do it's non-BBC sattelite stations that I watch. I asked the cable technician the other day if I had to pay the TV licence despite not having an aerial ( i have a dish), he said that I still have to so long as my TV was capable of receiving the beeb!!!
And you're right we are paying here for something we have no say in. It's like the 2 million + people who came out to protest against the war in Iraq and were not listened to but yet had to pay tax which in part is used to buy weapons and deploy troops for that war.

Answer 4

which would be as much as the Scottish government, if independence occurred (and that i strongly doubt it incredibly is going to ensue). human beings interior the Republic of eire do no longer pay a BBC television License, any further than different international locations outdoors the united kingdom e.g. France do. they may be waiting to acquire BBC channels (via way of aerial or satellite tv for pc), yet it incredibly is purely an advantage somewhat than something they pay for via way of expenditures. after all, television indicators are purely sure to the regulations of physics, they do no longer know national borders.

Answer 5

The BBC is full of adverts for its own services anyway. If you watch it, the breaks inbetween programmes are as long as those on commercial channels, while the BBC bangs on about its radio stations, digital services, radio times, etc. They also sell it abroad, or give it away free.
However, they do provide all the local radio stations free, as well as minority stations so it's a bit of give and take really, but I must agree, most of their mainstream TV output is rubbish.

Answer 6

What is paying for a license got to do with who's on the box

Answer 7

yes but on sky you got the red button for the all bbc ch you got some kids tv we pay for no addvits. like ITV ch4 and ch5 work off addvits and £1 calls

Answer 8

the BBC is state owned, and by democratically electing our leader (the PM) we are giving him and his government the authority to chose who provides our entertainment, and the BBC then chooses who they will employ. It very indirectly chosen by us!

Answer 9

true i would rather see ads then have to pay i don't even watch many BBC programmes

Answer 10

For the same reason we elect the government and they elect? the members of the cabinet. I.E. give people power and they will (ab) use it.