Black and White licence is being phased out, since most people obviously own colour.
About time!
People here know my opinion of the licence fee! The BBC are getting some landmark programmes back into the schedules (such as Life of Mars, though their Elizabeth was no where near as good as C4's!) but on the whole it's still not good enough. Far too many repeats and low quality docu-soap style programmes on BBC1!
Don't the BBC get enough of our cash as it is?! Not wanting to ignite the whole *scrap the license fee* debate, but it's a joke that in my flat, we each have to buy a license for our own rooms just because our bedroom doors have locks on them. That's 6 TV licenses for one flat. A blatent con. How do hotels go on?!
Don't the BBC get enough of our cash as it is?! Not wanting to ignite the whole *scrap the license fee* debate, but it's a joke that in my flat, we each have to buy a license for our own rooms just because our bedroom doors have locks on them. That's 6 TV licenses for one flat. A blatent con. How do hotels go on?!
Sounds like a bum deal? Did you each sign a seperate contract for your room? If so then they may have you over a barrell. But of course you're all with the same landlord, no doubt share the same bills but if you're not officially "joint tennants" then well they'll take you for all you've got.
My dad recently received a "final reminder" from the TV licencing company addressed to his now deceased life long friend who's bungalow he's inherited, demanding payment, spouting such nonsense as "a TV licence has already visited your property." Nope I'm afraid not...
I think what many of us find hard to swallow is that it's going up by more than the rate of inflation,
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. And be in no doubt that this excess will be spent on giving above-inflation pay rises to the BBC top brass. It's just like Council Tax in that respect - they can basically increase it by whatever they like. We have no say in it.
There is enormous wastage and excessive salaries at the BBC. If they tightened their purse strings a bit they could easily put a freeze on the licence fee for a few years, or at the very worst just deliver an increase that's in line with inflation.
It's the kind of arrogance and greed behind this increase which I believe will be the eventual downfall of the TV licence.
Don't the BBC get enough of our cash as it is?! Not wanting to ignite the whole *scrap the license fee* debate, but it's a joke that in my flat, we each have to buy a license for our own rooms just because our bedroom doors have locks on them. That's 6 TV licenses for one flat. A blatent con. How do hotels go on?!
Sounds like a bum deal? Did you each sign a seperate contract for your room? If so then they may have you over a barrell. But of course you're all with the same landlord, no doubt share the same bills but if you're not officially "joint tennants" then well they'll take you for all you've got.
Well, why don't you all chip in together, ditch your own TV licenses and simply buy one for the whole flat. And if the army of TV license inspectors turns up at your door, why don't you just say you all live together, share a house and close the door?
And what about those who are in the same house, but have their own locks on their doors, but are part of the same family? Does this mean they technically must buy their own TV license?
And what about those who are in the same house, but have their own locks on their doors, but are part of the same family? Does this mean they technically must buy their own TV license?
There is enormous wastage and excessive salaries at the BBC.
Really? I don't know anyone at the BBC who has an excessive salary. even the top management don't earn a fortune (when compared with top management at commercial media companies). As for wastage, while there are areas that waste money I think you'll find that the vast majority of income from the License Fee goes on actually making programmes or producing content. In the rest of the media a far smaller amount of income goes on producing output.
:-(
A former member
your not seen the catering services of teh BBC then!
your not seen the catering services of teh BBC then!
there waste more food than any other company!
The BBC doesn't have any significant catering services - they subcontract... If the contractor wastes food then it will mean they make less money on the contract, not that the BBC is wasting money. The BBC subsidy on staff catering has been reduced steadily year on year - so the catering operation is getting closer to being self supporting - requiring less and less licence fee money to support it. It could end up with the BBC making money on it through rent eventually... (Though I doubt it!)