TV licence rip off. Yet another increase
Discussion
Scrap it now....£131.50. Utter rip off.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4641006.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4641006.stm
Hmmm, subscribe to a SKY package for £29.99 a month, have five hundred channels and nothing to watch. Rent a DVD from the video shop every now & then at £2 or £3 a throw, soon adds up to the licence fee.
Worth it just for 'Johnny and the bomb' and 'Life on Mars', to mention but just two programmes.
Although there was sod all on on Saturday.
Worth it just for 'Johnny and the bomb' and 'Life on Mars', to mention but just two programmes.
Although there was sod all on on Saturday.
But they only advertise themselfs to create a timeslot for UKGold to fit their own adverts in.
If you need proof look at programmes from the 80's and 90's and compare them to the length of programmes today, they are shorter. Even when running overtime they still manage to fit at least 5 mins of cr@p in.
If you need proof look at programmes from the 80's and 90's and compare them to the length of programmes today, they are shorter. Even when running overtime they still manage to fit at least 5 mins of cr@p in.
Balmoral Green said:
Hmmm, subscribe to a SKY package for £29.99 a month, have five hundred channels and nothing to watch. Rent a DVD from the video shop every now & then at £2 or £3 a throw, soon adds up to the licence fee.
Worth it just for 'Johnny and the bomb' and 'Life on Mars', to mention but just two programmes.
Although there was sod all on on Saturday.
It's may be decent enough value to some people, but now we have entered the digital age it should be your CHOICE whether to subscibe to the BBC or not.
I think the point is that we don't have any choice but to pay this tax if we own a telly. What a rip off! Why should I have to pay them for something I don't want? Why can't they fund themselves like all the rest have to? Someone please tell me?
I don't watch or listen to BBC programs anymore because they're full of global warming, anti-car, speed kills propaganda. I consider myself truely pissed on to then have to pay them for that!
I don't watch or listen to BBC programs anymore because they're full of global warming, anti-car, speed kills propaganda. I consider myself truely pissed on to then have to pay them for that!
Parrot of Doom said:
Not in my opinion. I'd happily pay 3 times that amount, British television is brilliant.
????? big brother, eastenders, coronation street,the farm, endless aussie soap clones, repeats galore,fifth gear......brilliant???? I think you may just have redfined the word...
British tv is shite. Its the reason id rather go out running in the pissing rain any day of the week.
Jaglover said:
Not in my opinion. I'd happily pay 3 times that amount, British television is brilliant.
Speaks the BBC employee.
Explain to me how "The Bigger Picture With Graham Norton" is value for money. As a serious documentary on the catastrophic effects of structural failure of pre-stressed ferro-concrete structures, in this example as a television studio collapses on, and kills..slowly..., the participants, production crew, and audience of a feeble attempt at humour...it would be educational. As it is, it's another nail in the coffin of the BBC. The documentaries and the journalism are beyond reproach...but the bulk of the BBC's output is utter tripe.
deltafox said:
Not in my opinion. I'd happily pay 3 times that amount, British television is brilliant.
????? big brother, eastenders, coronation street,the farm, endless aussie soap clones, repeats galore,fifth gear......brilliant???? I think you may just have redfined the word...
British tv is shite. Its the reason id rather go out running in the pissing rain any day of the week.
Your examples are very selective though. There is a great deal of superb programming on, you've just mentioned the week-in week-out stuff thats cheap entertainment for the masses.
I suspect that the other posters here could mention many examples of great television over the last month, why just the other night there was a superb new drama about Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen) on BBC1.
Mind you, we could always go the American route and have Fox News.
Jaglover said:
Not in my opinion. I'd happily pay 3 times that amount, British television is brilliant.
Speaks the BBC employee.
heh, not an employee in the 'staff' sense, but honestly I would pay the money. I think the BBC is a great organisation, ruined by a certain Mr Birt.
8Pack said:
Only one way to see if it's good value or not.........compare it to the opposition!
Right....How much is the full SKY monty then?........per year?
Completely irrelevant, if you don't want sky, don't buy it.
If you don't want BBC, tough!
>> Edited by Smartie on Monday 23 January 23:38
8Pack said:
Only one way to see if it's good value or not.........compare it to the opposition!
Right....How much is the full SKY monty then?........per year?
thats not the point! no one forces you to buy sky.
There are only 2 programmes I watch on terestial TV.
Top gear and House(channel 5)
Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff