04-03-2022, 11:56
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
GB News seems to be impartial with good coverage.
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lts reputation has suffered somewhat on that front with Farage tweeting the Putin line on the invasion of Ukraine.
Last edited by 1andrew1; 04-03-2022 at 13:32.
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04-03-2022, 13:50
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
lts reputation has suffered somewhat on that front with Farage tweeting the Putin line on the invasion of Ukraine.
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What, this one?
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Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would.
A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.
These are dark days for Europe
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https://www.google.com/search?q=fara...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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04-03-2022, 14:02
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Probably these…
https://www.indy100.com/politics/nig...r-putin-praise
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04-03-2022, 14:55
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Maggy
No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.
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No one wants to pay for it, so who else is going to pay for it?
I stopped paying for it years ago and now solely watch Netflix.
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04-03-2022, 15:53
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Halcyon
No one wants to pay for it, so who else is going to pay for it?
I stopped paying for it years ago and now solely watch Netflix.
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Yes of course you do.
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04-03-2022, 16:31
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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Farage said that he'd got it wrong in the Twitter link I posted.
I've admired Putin as an operator too; now he's gone insane, my admiration has lapsed (as with Farage's admiration).
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04-03-2022, 17:28
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Maggy
No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.
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So not the BBC then
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04-03-2022, 21:21
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Re: BBC licence fee
The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
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04-03-2022, 21:27
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Mr K
The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
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Yes but people can cancel their cable, they're not charged for not watching it
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04-03-2022, 21:39
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Maggy
No! Best out of the hands of the government(Tory or Labour) and not run by the media in general. it should be a PBS that's completely free from political interference by government and what passes for a free press owned and run by whomever has the cash to but them outright.I pay the subscription expecting to get a completely independent service especially the news service.
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Exactly. There is a proposal to fund news etc from a Government grant and the entertainment etc from a subscription.
The BBC could not remain independent if news is funded by a Government grant. If they covered something the Government didn't like or something embarrassing, they could so easily be threatened with a funding cut.
I accept that this can and appears to have been done with the TVL though.
I think it would be better levying a media tax as a precept to the Council Tax. Almost everyone benefits from the BBC in some way. Despite it's faults, it really came into it's own when the pandemic started and they have recently started doing emergency broadcasts to Ukrania as Putin trys to stop the correct information from getting out to the people there by bombing TV masts and trying to knock out the internet.
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04-03-2022, 21:49
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Yes but people can cancel their cable, they're not charged for not watching it
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Exactly.
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05-03-2022, 00:48
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Re: BBC licence fee
I think I rolled this clip out last time we had this debate. It's still funny!
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05-03-2022, 03:22
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Re: BBC licence fee
Hahaha I remember that when it was first broadcast
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05-03-2022, 08:51
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Mr K
The 1000th thread on the BBC licence fee on CF!? People pay nearly as much a month on their Cable sub, than they do the BBC in a year.....
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I get a lot more for my Cable sub.
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05-03-2022, 09:47
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Re: BBC licence fee
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Originally Posted by Sirius
I get a lot more for my Cable sub.
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Mostly repeats of BBC programmes !
---------- Post added at 08:47 ---------- Previous post was at 08:35 ----------
Sometimes I think people forget what they are getting for less than £14 a month:-
Nine national TV channels plus regional TV services
Radio stations - 10 pan-UK, six national and 40 local
BBC website - including News, Sport, Weather, CBeebies, CBBC, Food, Bitesize, Arts
BBC iPlayer - 1000s of live and on demand programmes (including news, sport, dramas, comedy, documentaries, entertainment), box sets and exclusive content
BBC Sounds - a huge range of musical genres, radio stations and podcasts
BBC World Service - TV, radio and online
Other apps and online services like Bitesize, CBeebies, Food, News, Sport and Weather
A subscription service us impractical because of the way the BBC is broadcast and would cost a lot more.
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