View Poll Results: Do you like BBC?

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  • BBC does Great reporting and TV Shows

    48 47.06%
  • No, I am not a fan of BBC here is why

    35 34.31%
  • Just BBC World News

    5 4.90%
  • Other (Comment below)

    14 13.73%
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  1. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by gypsybob View Post
    Are you ok with people being made into criminals for not watching to watch state news?
    Lol talk about a false equivalency. TV licence pays for far more than "state news" and you don't have to watch it at all.

  2. #42
    By law all UK residents are compelled to fund the BBC and no one can opt out; only if you do not have a device capable of receiving a TV signal do you not have to pay. Failure to pay is a criminal offence.

    You need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch or record live TV programmes on any channel, and download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand. This applies to any provider you use and any device, including a TV, desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder.

    There are various problems with this poll tax funding system. In a World with so many alternative media providers, being forced to pay for one (the BBC) if you want to watch any other, for example, Sky Sports or a movie channel, or National Geographic is as anti-democratic as it is inefficient. This model of funding the BBC in indefensible.
    Because the BBC is not subject to commercial pressures, and no one can can use ‘price signals’ to indicate they don’t like the BBC’s output (ie, unsubscribing from the BBC and to watch another provider's output is not possible), the BBC is liable to produce average output. Some of the BBC’s output is good, but there are many repeats and a good deal of the BBC’s output is terrible.
    The funding model of the BBC has seen the BBC put it’s fingers in too many pies: It’s output spans almost every conceivable media type and format. Why should someone who only likes nature and gardening programs also be forces to pay for popular entertainment shows, Radio 1, and other BBC produces programs? The BBC crowds out private sector providers, to the detriment of the quality of UK TV.
    Lastly, the BBC funding model is a regressive tax on the poor. Why should the less well off pay the same for the BBC as the rich?

    The funding model should move to subscription service. Then, we will be free to choose.

  3. #43
    Quote Originally Posted by Altarion View Post
    By law all UK residents are compelled to fund the BBC and no one can opt out; only if you do not have a device capable of receiving a TV signal do you not have to pay. Failure to pay is a criminal offence.

    You need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch or record live TV programmes on any channel, and download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand. This applies to any provider you use and any device, including a TV, desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder.

    There are various problems with this poll tax funding system. In a World with so many alternative media providers, being forced to pay for one (the BBC) if you want to watch any other, for example, Sky Sports or a movie channel, or National Geographic is as anti-democratic as it is inefficient. This model of funding the BBC in indefensible.
    Because the BBC is not subject to commercial pressures, and no one can can use ‘price signals’ to indicate they don’t like the BBC’s output (ie, unsubscribing from the BBC and to watch another provider's output is not possible), the BBC is liable to produce average output. Some of the BBC’s output is good, but there are many repeats and a good deal of the BBC’s output is terrible.
    The funding model of the BBC has seen the BBC put it’s fingers in too many pies: It’s output spans almost every conceivable media type and format. Why should someone who only likes nature and gardening programs also be forces to pay for popular entertainment shows, Radio 1, and other BBC produces programs? The BBC crowds out private sector providers, to the detriment of the quality of UK TV.
    Lastly, the BBC funding model is a regressive tax on the poor. Why should the less well off pay the same for the BBC as the rich?

    The funding model should move to subscription service. Then, we will be free to choose.
    You can watch Sky sports, a movie channel, Nat Geo all without a TV licence through services such as Now TV.

    And despite the, supposed, lack of commercial pressure which apparently results in average output the BBC still churns out worldwide hits such as Sherlock, Luther, Planet Earth, The Office, Top Gear, etc.

    A subscription model would no doubt be more complicated to administer, would need new set top boxes or TVs and would no doubt end up more expensive for the viewer.

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    I like BBC America

    Planet Earth is one of the best shows you are not watching

  5. #45
    Quote Originally Posted by Heladys View Post
    Doctor Who is britain's primary contribution to mankind.
    What about television, the world wide web, desalination, the submarine, the steam engine, the jet engine, tinning food, the iron bridge, Hydraulic press, Incandescent light bulb, Electric motor, Cement, Sewage system, Steam turbine, Electronic programmable computer, Carbon fibre, ATM's, the railway, theory of the Higgs boson, DNA profiling, discovery of Graphene, Radio, Gas turbine, Two-stroke engine, dishwasher, Smallpox vaccine, anaesthesia, the Tank, Radar, Cinematography, Faraday cage , Calculus, Newtonian telescope, discovery of hawking Radiation, Newton's laws of motion, The Law of Gravity, Electromagnet, Periodic Table, Splitting the atom, Theory of Evolution, Mass spectrometer and The theory of electromagnetism to name but a few of British inventions and discoveries. Most of what you experience in modern life was invented by the British.

  6. #46
    Not personally, but my gf loves BBC.

  7. #47
    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    You can watch Sky sports, a movie channel, Nat Geo all without a TV licence through services such as Now TV.
    No, You need a TV license to watch ANY live broadcast, through ANY device. NowTV included - https://help.nowtv.com/article/do-i-...o-watch-now-tv

    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    And despite the, supposed, lack of commercial pressure which apparently results in average output the BBC still churns out worldwide hits such as Sherlock, Luther, Planet Earth, The Office, Top Gear, etc.
    It's more complicated than that. A lot of these series are produced and/or distributed by "BBC Worldwide", this is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that does have the same commercial pressure and goals. A lot of these big shows are produced with the intention of selling them to larger markets.
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  8. #48
    Quote Originally Posted by Heladys View Post
    Doctor Who is britain's primary contribution to mankind.
    It was.

    /absorbed into the Light

  9. #49
    No, I prefer korean media.

  10. #50
    Not really since (It seems)80% of what airs on BBCA is Star Trek.

  11. #51
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    the bbc is a left wing, anti british, cunt of a company.

  12. #52
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    The beeb is pretty good all in all. Its docu's are pretty dece (planet earth etc), panorama is cutting, its dramas are alreet, radio service is pretty good and its coverage of sport and music is outstanding.

    Does employ a few donuts though (alan shearer).

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    Quote Originally Posted by jennifer eccles View Post
    the bbc is a left wing, anti british, cunt of a company.
    is it fuck

  13. #53
    Double entendre....

    I completely approve......

    /thumbs up

    /fades into the shadows

  14. #54
    Quote Originally Posted by rogueMatthias View Post
    No, You need a TV license to watch ANY live broadcast, through ANY device. NowTV included - https://help.nowtv.com/article/do-i-...o-watch-now-tv



    It's more complicated than that. A lot of these series are produced and/or distributed by "BBC Worldwide", this is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that does have the same commercial pressure and goals. A lot of these big shows are produced with the intention of selling them to larger markets.
    Right? And? There is no need with the technology available today to watch live broadcasts and I would have thought that waiting an hour or so to watch a program in order to not have to pay the licence fee would appeal to those who dislike the BBC.

    So what? The reality is that the BBC consistently makes critically acclaimed TV programs which cost the UK viewer roughly 40p to watch.

  15. #55
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    Right? And? There is no need with the technology available today to watch live broadcasts and I would have thought that waiting an hour or so to watch a program in order to not have to pay the licence fee would appeal to those who dislike the BBC.

    So what? The reality is that the BBC consistently makes critically acclaimed TV programs which cost the UK viewer roughly 40p to watch.
    obviously apart from you, ya tight bastard. Are you scottish?

  16. #56
    Quote Originally Posted by ctd123 View Post
    obviously apart from you, ya tight bastard. Are you scottish?
    What? I am quite happy to pay for the BBC.

  17. #57
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    What? I am quite happy to pay for the BBC.
    I thought you were infering that you dont pay a tv license, my bad.

  18. #58
    Once you go black, you never go back, is a saying for a reason.

  19. #59
    Quote Originally Posted by ctd123 View Post
    I thought you were infering that you dont pay a tv license, my bad.
    No problem, I was simply pointing out to those who incorrectly state that you have to pay the licence fee in order to watch programs not broadcast on BBC channels that you can, legally, watch those channels without paying for a TV licence.

  20. #60
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    As a foreign person, I like many of their older documentaries, Horizon, etc. - but I can't help notice a decline in quality over the past 10 years or so.

    I also like some of their sports event coverage, like the Snooker World Championship. They have good commentators, usually former World Champions.

    Unfortunately they make it impossible for me to pay for their content, everything is geo blocked. I'd be happy to pay for it as I already pay for the Eurosport coverage, but I'd rather hear the commentators who are actually at the event. And you can't do that legally at the moment. Except on YouTube a day later. Which is stupid.

    BBC news, I suppose, is like everywhere else. At least they've made their fair share of mistakes (WTC 7 *cough*).
    Last edited by mmoc1848483d5d; 2017-08-29 at 08:30 PM.

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