Hello. Just seen this on another website. Options being put forward for scrapping the BBC tv licence. One is to add it aa an extra charge onto Council tax bills. Or as a household levy. Crazy. I can see this being unpopular. Just thought I’d share.
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Surprisingly I can't seem to find the article on the BBC 😁
So not just the cost of designing and printing new logos on everything.
Also, bear in mind that the BBC has a commercial arm to sell stuff overseas. That currently adds a couple of hundred million pounds a year into the main budget, so if spending 7 million keeps those profits up then it makes sense to update this sort of stuff on a commercial timescale rather than a public service one.
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Pity the viewers don't share his opinion. Make it subscription only, then he'll see how good it is.
Anyways it’s getting late now just thought I’d share in case anyone hasn’t seen this. Happy New Year all. (edited)
They can't afford to have a "public consultation" either because they'll be told, quite definitively, that the vast majority of the public would prefer that the BBC either take adverts or become an optional subscriber service.
Culture is important so the idea of the licence fee is to ensure that a lot of the money being spent on video watching goes to fund videos commissioned and produced in the UK.
Obviously it's been hopelessly mismanaged by the current government and it's predecessors. It goes completely against the point to apply it to UK broadcasters but not foreign ones and it should have been required for Netflix et al at least a decade ago.
But with more foreign video than ever being watched in the UK, the principle of a tax to fund productions for the UK market is more relevant now that it has been any time in the last half century.
So I think we should still have some sort of revamped licence fee. I can understand why people may not want to see it go to the BBC as the TV division has been struggling a bit recently (although many other arms are doing excellent work).
However, none of the other British broadcasters are more worthy and splitting the budget between all of them might not work that well.
While there are certainly alternatives we'd probably need a government with more vision to set them up. Perhaps some sort of youtube model might work, although youtube seems have struggled with the fiction side of things.
My child-less neighbour kicks off about paying for schools, youth support, libraries and other stuff.
Presumably a proportion of the population expects a bespoke-calculated CT bill, and presumably would be happy to pay a small additional fee to cover the cost of the bespoke calc.
what a new year surprise ...especially when not having tv or any interest to it
Remember the Poll Tax riots?
BBC riots if they add that onto CT bills.