It should be a subscription channel like Sky,Netflix and Amazon not a tax forced on people who can't afford it who see people like Lineker and newsreaders on massive wages paid for out of what they pay for their tv licence. The BBC know if they became a subscription channel they wouldn't survive for very long so would fight it all the way.
As I said I can understand people's objection to the whole payment model, but the actual cost is peanuts. I can't get angry at the salaries of people on TV either, such 'stars' have always earned more than us viewers and always will.
But you aren't being forced to do that... Ultimately if you don't think it's worth it then don't pay and adjust your viewing habits. Or just don't pay it and keep doing what you like.
Not true - you could go and watch it in a pub or other venue with TV's - of course they'd expect you to buy something for the privilege since they're paying the fees
The government would have a smidgeon of credibility if it had allowed proper funding of the BBC and weren't helping their friends at certain so-called newspapers who would love nothing more than the BBC's ultimate destruction. Even if this increase does go ahead, it still only equates to paying a little over £3 a week for a range of content a million miles beyond that of any subscription platform that charges far, far more. In media terms, the BBC is the bargain of all time but you have to ignore the bullshit to see it. The problem with this mock outrage about the licence fee is that we've been here so many times before. As much as nobody likes it, the licence fee only endures because a better alternative hasn't yet been found.
I stopped paying 2 years ago when I cancelled my sky, I get letters every couple of weeks in big red envelopes about investigations, visits from officers, potential legal action and fines, the letters get more and more threatening and intimidating...until they go back to the first template and start ramping up all over again. Never once has anybody actually turned up. Now when I see that big red letter on my doormat I just burst out laughing.
I'm just catching up on this, and that's twice you've mentioned Lineker in a matter of weeks, and in this case, I don't really see how he relates to the point you're making. Is your issue with him that he's not impartial when you think he should be, or is it more to do with him having an opinion you disagree with? Would there be this much angst from you if his views aligned more with yours?
It's the fact he's paid £1.3 Million which comes from the licence fee he's just a bloody autocue reader ffs.
I'd put very good money on the fact that if you had to "read from an autocue" you'd utterly and massively f*ck it up. It's so much harder than people think, plus in the grand scheme of things he's really not paid that much compared to his peers on private tv. Mind you i'd imagine this has far less to do with what he's being paid, and far more to do with you not like his private beliefs.
I've always been against his ridiculous wage long before he started spouting his political views on Twitter.
