So Nadine Dorries has frozen the licence fee until 2024 and has cut funding by £2bn. The plan is to abolish the licence fee completely by 2027. Now I know that it has a political bias, which it shouldn't. It's job is to present the news with impartiality (or at least it used to be).
Apart from the news content and Mrs Brown's Boys I don't think content is too bad and it's relatively cheap. They usually have a few good series on over the year. Probably could do with fewer cooking programmes, house makeover, buying antiques, moving abroad programmes but generally it's OK compared with some of the subscription services. Shouldn't forget the radio content either.
Seems fashionable to hate the BBC at the moment. De-nationalising other public services didn't work out too well in the past either.
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Bias, poor decisions, overpaid top level staff. I resent paying them just because I want a TV. Bloody fund yourself like EVERYONE ELSE on the planet does!
How much BBC TV do I watch? Just Doctor Who when it's on, which isn't that often and quite frankly the show has gone down the pan anyway. Took us 2 weeks to bother putting on the last episode.
TV is sink or swim. Netflix and Amazon are doing amazingly well, do what they do and maybe I'll buy a subscription.
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Kermode and Mayo podcast (they 60 or close to 60 now and will be near or at retirement age by 2027)
Top Gear - although my interest in this show has dwindled this year massively
Killing Eve - love this when it came out. D
World Cup/European Cup matches
I don’t really think I’m getting my money’s worth, vs say the amount of content I get from Netflix for the same money.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20217901.amp
I had a licence for a year when I first moved out, but never watched anything live so I cancelled and I've never missed it.
I might like to watch UFC live these days, but that would be it and I don't see why I should need to have a licence for that. Where does the BBC come in to that?
Also this https://news.sky.com/story/zahawi-defends-plan-to-put-navy-in-charge-of-policing-channel-migrant-boats-12518298
The other stuff they do seems well liked, I'm in my 30s so very little of it appeals to me (seems a lot of daytime quiz shows and detective series largely?) but they do occasionally do stuff I like and I enjoy panel shows (for my sins).
They do more than just the TV stuff as well, things like the Bitesize revision resources have got millions of kids through exams, for example.
It's clearly just the Tories trying to score gammon points to deflect from their current problems
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BBC Salaries are generally lower than what you can earn at other broadcasters. This is why they often leave for ITV etc for much bigger pay days.
It was even the case when I worked there 20 years ago. It was really common for people to do 2 years at the beeb for the training then jump to ITV for a 30% pay rise.
Thank god it is a british institution, especially with our cynical attitude towards government and despite the current political climate we still have freedom of speech. Of course there will be bias, but an organization that hires all sorts of people "can" reflect a wide range of opinions (maybe have a rolling position as editor).
It has produced a great number of non news programs over the years which have been copied many a time, both low and high budget stuff
I think their news coverage, particularly online is terrible and throughout COVID has been pretty darned sensationalist - however Nick Triggle's commentary has usually be quite balanced.
TV - beeb tends to do good dramas, especially when in combination with HBO or similar. BBC2 has some good stuff on it.
iPlayer - good
Radio content - second to none IMO.
Sport coverage - again, the best out there, particularly football. Head and shoulders above ITV (v bad) and Sky.
the notion of having a legally enforceable TV license to pay for a state broadcaster is clearly outdated though.
It will be nice not to have to pay the license, after all this time of not being able to opt out. I mean imagine having to pay for Netflix whether you watched it or not!
arent Pip and Jolly Holly on ITV ? can't remember seeing Pip on BBC since he was in the f*cking broom cupboard
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
On the subject of their reporting, I think all reporting is subjective. The BBC may appear to have an anti-Tory bias but I suspect it's more of an antigovernmental bias and thus wouldn't alter whichever flavour of government was in power.
I too, feel a cable-only, or Internet-based TV, is the most likely outcome in the longer term, and speaking as one who hasn't been able to receive a decent terrestrial analogue or digital TV signal for the last 22 years, it cannot come too soon.