desprateseagull
New member
simple question.
The Clown of Pevensey Bay said:Are you happy to pay less than the price of a Daily Mail every day for Extras, Match of the Day, the Blue Planet, Harty's phone in, arguably the best news website in the world, Test Match Special, and a hell of a lot more besides?
Hercules Rockerfeller said:And tbe BBC makes millions selling thos things across the world, well not harty's phone in, but the other stuff. They also push loads of products in their programmes and could make money from this. We're getting shafted!
The Clown of Pevensey Bay said:The millions made by the BBC flogging these programmes around the world goes back into into making more programmes, so the licence fee is not so high.
And any suggestion that the BBC "pushes lots of products" in its programmes is complete bollocks I'm afraid.
perseus said:The BBC want to move to Manchester and they want an increased poll tax to pay for it.
perseus said:The BBC have at least three people to do one job compared to private enterprise television firms.
Scrap the poll tax and have the Government-speak TV station funded through general taxation.
Then the TV company would be answerable through the democratic system.
At the moment they are a QUANGO with special powers to collect poll tax from householders.
Quangos are the highly paid unanswerable semi-Government organisations. They are only answerable to their paymasters the Government., not to the public or the viewers. Independence means they can be arrogant and prejudiced in their own special manner. It is not as though the standard of their programmes is very good. The only good thing about the BBC TV is their lack of annoying adverts.
Kenhead said:Doesn't the bbc own uktv? They show adverts!!