Britannist

The anti-English and pro-Labour Brussels Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) wouldn't last long in the realities of the commercial world. That's why it (the BBC) is so desperate to retain the compulsory licence fee so it can carry on scrounging off the people of this country.

Few would pay for the BBC if they were not forced to do so and it would fall apart very quickly as a single entity in its present size and form if it was made to earn its keep as all other broadcasters in the UK have to do.

Britannist

Thank you for your agreement Bigred. Hundreds of millions of Pounds would be saved in collecting the television licence fee if the Government funded the BBC directly.

harryaldridge

Yes the license fee should be scrapped for good. The BBC should be fully commercialised and survive through subscriptions and/or advertising.

If it is necessary to have a public service element to our television programming, which i do not believe is necessary, then the money should be focussed on the content and not the distribution.

The license fee (tax) is costly to administer, hits the poorest hardest, is archaic, and with digital technology it is unecessary. Lets get rid of it an return the cash to peoples pockets.

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Phil Sheldon

The BBC now has an income of £3.5 Billion per year-Guaranteed.

John Humphreys and Jeremy Paxman are having a little spat cocerning the way some of this money is spent:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

One of the problems associated with a State funded broadcaster is the sheer inability to offer transparency in it's accounting procedures.
Jonathan Ross-not one of my favourite broadcasters- has a contract worth £18 Million. No commercial broadcaster would have offered anywhere near this obscene amount of money for an 'Entertainer' of his calibre so if the BBC was privatised/commercialised his contract would either be renegotiated or not renewed.

The BBC may claim to be 'Impartial' but if the person controlling the purse strings applies pressure-either political or financial- the claim of impartiality rings hollow.

Kevin Adamson

The TV tax is theft.
Scrap the BBC ,who would give a dam

Besoeker

Then, for the sake of your health, I suggest that you stop watching it.

Britannist

No one apart from those on its payroll.

Britannist

The Brussels Broadcasting Corporation is swarming with europhiles and Guardian-reading Labour and Liberal Dim party supporters.

Britannist

It is particularly disgraceful that the BBC 'elite' think it justified to force poor people to pay (through the television licence) for their fat salaries.

Besoeker

Actually, the total income of the BBC is about £4 billion, of which around £3 billion comes from the licence fee.
Not that necessarily invalidates your points.

I think some of the objection to the license fee is that you have to pay for it whether or not you use the service.

But, in some ways, this is a specious argument.

A product advertisement on commercial channel has to be paid for.
That cost has to be funded from sales of the product and ultimately paid for by the customers - whether or not they watch that particular channel. Or indeed, any commercial channels.