Television Licence

[baggieal]

Am I just the fool with one of these? Almost every person I speak to does not have one and still watches television. I am also told it’s difficult to be caught unless someone peers through the window or you watch iPlayer etc. No such things as detector vans and you don’t have to let anyone in.

Seems many refuse to have a licence out of principle due to the BBC and complete and utter woke!

Maybe it’s time mine was cancelled too!

[DaveP67 is back!]

Am I just the fool with one of these? Almost every person I speak to does not have one and still watches television. I am also told it’s difficult to be caught unless someone peers through the window or you watch iPlayer etc. No such things as detector vans and you don’t have to let anyone in.

Seems many refuse to have a licence out of principle due to the BBC and complete and utter woke!

Maybe it’s time mine was cancelled too!

I have one and will do so as long as I watch the BBC, I’m also the chump who pays on top for Netflix, Amazon, Sky, and Disney plus!

[Dubbag]

A big problen over here presently with our national RTE. Seems they have been paying severance pay to people who crashed the broadcaster. Huge drop in uptake last June/July when the original story broke. Inflated wages been paid to persons and then hiding said payments in accounts. Over 60% drop in funding from licences I think last year.
And it hasn't gone away. It's dirty and it's corrupt on some levels...
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0219/1433075-rte/

[SwedishBaggie]

They gave it up here ca 10 years ago, now eveyone pays via taxation.

[WBA123]

I have one and will do so as long as I watch the BBC, I’m also the chump who pays on top for Netflix, Amazon, Sky, and Disney plus!

Don't forget about Apple TV, YouTube, Spotify and BT Sport...

These bills combined now are approaching £200!

The problem is when I sign up for something, I rarely cancel them. I feel I am getting more profligate as I get older. The polar opposite of most people. I would have nearly fainted at having all of these in my early 20s, now I've got much more of a F*** it attitude.

[mickd1961]

We pay for TV licences at our home and both holiday homes.

I don’t believe in breaking the law, I use the service and therefore it should be paid for.

[Dubbag]

We pay for TV licences at our home and both holiday homes.

I don’t believe in breaking the law, I use the service and therefore it should be paid for.

I agree, no matter what others are doing.

[Omegstrat6]

We pay for TV licences at our home and both holiday homes.

I don’t believe in breaking the law, I use the service and therefore it should be paid for.

Your last sentiment exactly 👍

Yes, there are times when I disagree with some of the viewpoints that the BBC seems to endorse and similarly I find some of their most populist programmes quite unwatchable (though their viewing figures clearly show many others disagree &#128513 but, overall, I still believe that it tries to be as balanced and factual as it can and it continues to produce some very good programmes. The initial mission to "inform, educate and entertain" is adhered to and the BBC remains surely the world's best public broadcaster. Certainly the licence fee, at around £14/ month, is a bit higher than Sky, Netflix, Prime etc. but when you consider the volume, breadth and generally high quality of its product across a number of media platforms I still believe it then offers value for money.

As a public broadcaster it's remit, of course, is that it must attempt to produce programming that appeals to and addresses the interests of all sections of its licence payers including more minority audiences. Inevitably this will lead to some product that is of little or no interest to others but that is part of the deal. Since the introduction of streaming services the choices available have increased significantly but, as Mick says, you still should pay for what you use.

As a publicly funded service provider, the BBC should only rightly be scrutinized but sometimes I think the criticisms are from too much of an unbalanced point of view. If people genuinely don't use any of the services provided by the BBC then why should they pay but the sheer range of programming it offers makes me think that there aren't actually very many of them.

[kettering_baggie]

We pay the licence fee; we also use the firestick…..

[mickd1961]

We pay the licence fee; we also use the firestick…..

I thought you got the licence fee free along with double fuel allowance at your age Kets?

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