MaxD148
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i agree totally.
A license is a document giving you permission to do something.
I don't need permission to watch TV in my own home, its not exactly a dangerous past-time.
We would also need to stand up against the subsequent court fines.
What are they going to do, throw 40+ million people in jail, there's only a few hundred spaces left.
I for one would be more than happy to tell then to cram it but it can only work if enough people thought the same way and were prepared to see it through.
Unfortunately in this country today we are good at talking the talk but not walking the walk. |
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Squirkey
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In short yes, because the majority of their funding would dry up.
The reason the BBC is funded by a licence fee is because it is a Public Service Broadcaster (PSB), and only receives the licence fee if it upholds a public service ethos. This is reviewed every 10 years through a royal charter review which is conducted by OFCOM.
John Reith was one of the most influential directors at the BBC and instilled very strict public service guidelines, most of which are reflected in today's public service remit. Although there are no set definitions of the role a PSB should follow (these are updated and reviewed in every charter review), the general principles are as follows:
1. freely accessible to all, providing high quality content
2, Impartial and trustworthy
3. free from political and commercial bias
4. covering equally all aspects of society; especially minority issues
5. owned by the public, and accountable to the public
6. value for money
7. free from advertising
ITV was the UK's second TV channel and set up to challenge the BBC from a commercial aspect and ensure the BBC adhered to top quality and state of the art programming.
If the BBC was refused funding from the licence fee, they would need to become more commercial, fall back on advertising and have to compete in a free market (a free market is where consumers dictate what is produced through popularity and viewing figures).
The problem with a free-market is that programming would become homogeneous (the same) in an effort to produce programming that will attract viewers. This will ultimately reduce and potentially eliminate any coverage of minority sports, issues and programming because the focus is on quantity of viewers and not the quality of programming.
The BBC would also not be able to create programmes that are the same high quality as they are now (Blue Planet and Tribe for example); currently the BBC ensures the other channels create similarly high quality programming in order to compete. |
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joe perkinstein
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Why do we have to pay just to keep the bbc in profit..I have sky and watch the bbc once a month at most..It's bllody extortion.. |
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Bob
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Great Idea
But it will never happen, the British public are just to scared to take action. |
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vapour_rub2001
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sounds like a good idea. we are only paying for the adverts anyway which none of us want! |
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Thad
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Don't you have "free to air" decoders in UK ?
In So. Europe you can view BBC World and a huge array of multi-language channels for free...no fee to speak of.
Of course the trash fee -among others- is sheer unabashed thievery.
Some other time. |
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stoke
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thats just 1 big fcukin con,the bbc has to be 1 of the biggest and richest medias in the world due to tv licence,think about it if you took £1 from every1 in the country u would get around 65 mill a day,think about it they charge well over a hundread pounds for it and most people in the uk have a tv,the bbc wouldent miss it for a year infact i think cause they have so much money they would never miss it again i think its the same media that owns americas abc aswell. |
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Cj
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Yes yes yes, they would have to if only EVERYONE would do the same, and I think they should, but you will always get people who won't join in, or who think it is wrong to protest or who are just scared or who like to pay for the same program REPEATEDLY year after year. Such a shame, because if we all stuck together we could really do something about it. |
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Eddie B
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There's a site at http://www.tvlicensing.biz - campaigning to abolish the TV license. |
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thatmadlass
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I think this is a great idea and think it could work. I would rather have a few adverts on th for than pay £11 a month for the pleasure of 2 fecking channels from them! I have a.. Sky subsription and yeah theres ad's but its easy to flick over and ignore them.
And the gaps between BBC programmes is almost as big as the channels with adverts as they promote their own shows/services/channel in between.
I'd love to see this happen and I for one would join in! |
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taketwo
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more like bankruptcy for BBC and government will soon know about it. |
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aa
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Ok. And then what ?
Parking fines, fuel, electricity bills, road tax, taxes.
You would then get complete anarchy.
Then there would be no TV at all ! |
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Fluke
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Great idea!! Can't see everyone agreeing to it though!! |
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DAN the BRIT
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no they would fine all of us £1000 or Send the balelifts round |
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