One of the things that took us by surprise when we first came to UK was the fact we have to pay to watch television. The wicked TV License (worth £135.50 per year) was introduced when BBC was first crated. The government didn't want to cover the costs of setting up such huge network, and so said the people had to pay for it if they wanted to have TV.
I think it was a fair enough proposition.
But nowadays?
I believe there's no reason to keep this going. The fact they've now announced thousands of job being lost, and more repeats being aired, I think is all a big joke.
They pay millions and millions to personalities to present their shows (i.e. Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles, Graham Norton, etc…) and these guys are not even that popular!!
The whole problem is you've gotta pay no matter if you choose to watch BBC or not. So there is no choice, and in my view this should be unlawful as it is a monopoly for the TV market.
Other channels get their money on the usual way of making new/crisp good programmes (oh well, ok, not always good) and getting revenue from advertising slots, so what is BBC different? I don't want to pay £135,50 just for the luxury to have 4 channels with no advert on them! That is ludicrous.
If BBC was putting the money to good use, that'd be one thing. But all can see happening is programmes getting repeated over and over again (like it happened with A pint of lager and packet of crips before), the same things with the usual multimillionaire staff going on (which we hardly watch anyways) and my money going to their pockets.
Sadly, honest people are left now unemployed once again and we are left with programmes hardly watched.
I signed the petition to end BBCs feast, maybe if all this huge fortune is taken from them they'll start doing something that matters. It's the least I can do.
If you want to join the campaign -> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bbcresistance_com/
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For someone I like so much, Agape, and who has been so good and faithful to me.......you do seem to find a lot of ways of making we want to disagree with you!
But when you strike at the BBC, you strike in a sense at the heart of the British nation! You strike at my heart too, since my husband worked for the BBC all his life, and all three of our children also worked there at one time or another....
I do agree though, that the BBC of today is not the one it started out to be. It was created with the highest and noblest of intentions - a public service broadcasting organization that paid dues, and owed its soul to nothing and no-one. Certainly not to governments, or commercial enterprises! In its old, pure form it fulfilled the requirements of its charter perfectly - and was a bastion of truth and sanity, especially during times of war.
That pure clear voice has been muffled lately, it's true - and it's often hard to see how its independence can be maintained in the face of so much ( often excellent) commercial competition. Perhaps the time will even come when it will no longer be reasonable to expect it to be funded out of public money alone?
It's impossible, here, to mount an adequate defence of the BBC and all it stood for - and should be standing for still! But it seems to me it will be a sad day - sad for freedom, sad for independent thought in brodacasting, and therefore sad for us, the people -if the BBC should lose its charter, and with it its soul!
We should mourn I think, not cry jubilation, if that should happen!
For we shall have lost a force for good that can never be replaced.
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