If you do then visit www.tvlicensing.biz or www.bbcresistance.com and sign the petition to have it abolished.
And please pass the word, get every one you know to visit the sights and sign the petition....
2006-10-18 10:02:37 · 30 answers · asked by blissman 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Don't forget to sign the petition and tell your friends to as well.
2006-10-18 10:10:23 · update #1
If you want to protest and have your say please visit the sights mentioned.... thankyou.
2006-10-18 10:21:54 · update #2
Some great answers...
RE: DGR...football is on commercial channel, the adverts are on at half time. Just because you see an advert you don't have to rush out and buy the product and there are less than a dozen 'good' programmes on the bbc and every one is forced to pay for the privilege...
Does this seem right?
2006-10-18 21:46:33 · update #3
It should be "pay per view". I only watch a couple of programs on the BBC channels per week, so why do I have to pay the full price for TV license?
Pay per view is the only fair way to operate.
2006-10-18 10:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by leigh 1 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Obviously each to his own, I used to feel like this in the old days but now the BBC have extended to having 4 channels you're getting 4 times the value. Most people pay a lot these days to view TV anyway, so I cant see it makes much difference.
I quite like the BBC channels, they do some good dramas and documentaries, even some brilliant comedy and you dont have all the hassle of breaks with dubious jingles and aggravating adverts.
All they serve to do is irritate, stress you out or encourage you to spend more money, particularly if you have children to buy for nearing Christmas when a single fashionable toy could cost more than the annual TV licence in itself.
The other thing I do when there are things I want to watch on two sides at once is to watch BBC and record any channel with adverts that way I can fast forward the adverts and shorten the viewing time. The way I see it is that I pay around 35p per day for a choice of many TV & Radio channels not to put up with the adverts, a small price to pay.
Lets face it you dont get something for nothing these days. You pay for packages on sky or cable tv but you often dont watch half the channels you pay for.
I have to say though, the really cheeky thing that gets me are the channels you have to pay extra for for that still have adverts - now that really takes the pip!
2006-10-18 13:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by ShumB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Better to sign a petition against satellite or cable TV (or any other commercial channel) that has you all paying at least twice the amount of your licence fee to watch regurgitated American dross interrupted by annoying adverts every 2 minutes, never invests in decent programming, does not provide any quality radio or Internet resources I say!
Be proud of YOUR BBC, it is un-rivalled and if you didn't pay a licence fee for BBC the Government would only get the money out of you some other way.
I was with sky paying nearly £50 a month for my TV, now I am free-view, watching more-or less BBC only by choice and I pay just over a tenner! Whats changed? I don't have to put up with adverts at all, the programming is a better quality and most interestingly, I realise that the reason I don't miss my commercial channels is that the content was shite!
Long live the BBC I say!
2006-10-18 10:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Obviously nobody likes a direct form of tax, like the license fee, they'd sooner pay indirectly by paying for the advertising. The downside for advert financed TV channels of course is that the more channels there are the more dilute becomes the advertising revenue and the cheaper the programming becomes, hence the plethora of reality TV shows we see now. All you have to do is stick Joe Public in front of a camera and watch the stupid things he/she does. That's fine if you've got the intelect of an amoeba.Or you can pretend you are an American and watch any number of North American import programmes.
2006-10-18 10:20:57 · answer #4 · answered by Peter W 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 10:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just thought i'd add my 2p worth
The thing I don't like about paying the licence fee is that I have to pay if I have a TV because it picks up their signal, I personally don't watch much TV but when I do It's always a movie on Sky.
Yes I do Subscribe to sky, and yes I agree it's pricing is bad - but that is my choice to pay, with Sky and cable you don't want it you don't have to have it - it's as simple as that - the BBC are forcing the Licence fee on you even if you watch it or not just by owning a tv, yes it is cheap in comparison to Sky and if you watch it alot damn good value.
Like someone said above, Pay per view would be a great solution - you watch the stuff BBC has to offer you pay for it, that's only fair, but why should people pay for something that they don't want or watch/listen to?
2006-10-18 13:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The quality of TV programmes is an insult to intelligence. I went 3 and a half weeks without watching this year, and didn't miss it. Since then I only watch TV for about 2 hours per week. Do you know that it is possible to buy a licence just for, say, Christmas then get a refund afterwards? You can do it as long as you want more than quarter of a year refunded.
2006-10-18 11:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by Sandee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The licence fee not only includes many advert free TV stations catering for young and old, it also provides dozens of radio stations worldwide, Internet TV and radio, interactive TV with shows and quizzes, 24 hour news when you want it !.
Where else can you get that for 2 quid a week ??.
One of my mates pays over 42 quid a month for sky TV and its mostly repeats and lame shows.
I think the BBC is good value for money !.
2006-10-18 10:27:09 · answer #8 · answered by Richard 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Rubbish. The fee is simple. Have a telly, pay the fee. No argument. The BBC has most of the decent viewing that still exists in the UK. I feel more aggreived by the copious advertising that I have been subjected to, which has propably already cost me years of my life. You probably want football to be cut into quarters so that they can cram in more adverts. If we get rid of the BBC, we are giving strength to those who wish to milk the "customer" rather than accommodate the "viewer". Why would anyone waste their time championing a "cause" such as this? Have you nothing better to care about? I really hope that this question was a wind-up!?!
2006-10-18 10:17:59 · answer #9 · answered by DGR 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Its better than adverts that start 5 minutes into a program and the shite you get on most other channels !.
the BBC is much more than just TV ?.
Maybe you will get your way one day and we'll get some programs in between the F'ing Adverts !!.
2006-10-18 11:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by Mr Blues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm happy with the licence system, its up front and reasonable for the output they generate.
The programmes on commercial TV are paid for by the advertisers, which are funded by us. That means a large chunk of the products and services we purchase goes on advertising.
Are you happy that 25% of the cost of a new car is spent on trying to get you to buy it? Its very difficult to avoid buying these products or services, so you are forced to pay for the hidden "licence", even if you never watch any TV. For example, you probably shop at a big supermarket that advertises. Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons etc. Maybe its possible to never buy anything thats advertised, but you would have to watch a lot of ads to confirm this.
Look at these rates for US tv ad breaks...
http://www.frankwbaker.com/2005-2006_ad_rates.htm
Some are well over $0.5M for 30 seconds. Obviously not so much in the UK. So, 3 mins of ads there could cost $3M in prime time, to balance 10 mins or less of TV.
Considering the UK, the net TV advertising revenue was about £3B (2003)
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/tv/reports/tvadvmarket.pdf
Do you think the standard of living of PR company personnel equates to checkout staff at a supermarket, or better ?
Whats more, the quality of programmes on ITV1 is utter cr*p.
Its all "lowest common denominator" stuff. It was better 10 years ago, and a hell of a lot better 20 years ago. Occasionally they bring out a new drama, but its getting rarer arnd rarer.
Commerical TV in other countries is even worse.
2006-10-18 10:44:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋