Not only will the BBC be using our licence fee money to pay the fine and their current legal bills, they intend to appeal which will cost us even more.
A bunch of freeloaders, let them earn their own income like other brodcasters do and then they can do what they want with their own money.
Scrap the licence fee!!
That’ll be nice pocket money for Cliff, I hear he’s going on his summer holidays with some bird called Carrie, who apparently doesn’t live with him anymore but walks and talks like a doll what’s alive!
It beggars belief in this day and age that if people wish to own a TV to access the hundreds of channels now available on commercial or satellite platforms, they are still obliged to contribute to the funding of one particular broadcaster. To be fair, lots of people do express their anger about it, but nowhere near strongly enough.
The money should come from their world wide sales money, not the license fee. Why should we pay for them wanting to go tabloid?
I think the BBC is one of the few things Britain does that I'm proud of. Take the BBC off the broadcasting scene and watch the race for the bottom a la USA. We need a national broadcaster. It's not perfect but it remains the envy of the world media-wise.
They may have got this one wrong (with Sir Cliff) but babies and bathwater come to mind.
How the BBC spends it's £5 billion it gets from the licence fee and commercial sales (2014).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...nce-fee-money/
Quite right, sid. We don't need adverts interrupting programmes every ten minutes. Some of these breaks are followed by a resume of what we have just seen, presumably the attention levels of American audiences is not high and they need reminding of what they were watching two minutes ago.
Nor do we want British copies of the likes of CNN or Fox News, sponsored by Boots, or the Co-op, giving us their sparkling and sensational versions of the "news" dumbed down to the level of an American housewife.