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29-12-2018, 10:40 AM | #1 | |||
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[The average age of a BBC One viewer is
now in their 60s – meaning a large proportion of people who consume many of the corporation’s flagship services are not paying for it.] This about BBC says channels may close without over-75s licence fee [The BBC has said it will have to close channels and make enormous cuts to its services unless over-75s are made to pay for the licence fee, as it prepares to cover the loss of government funding that currently allows older people to consume its content for free.] [Free TV licences for over-75s were introduced by the then chancellor, Gordon Brown, in his 1999 budget to try to reduce pension poverty. He agreed that the cost of providing the universal benefit should be paid by the Department of Work and Pensions to the BBC to ensure the broadcaster’s budget was not hit.] https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...5s-licence-fee The BBC are in a mess over this. Last edited by arista; 29-12-2018 at 10:40 AM. |
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30-12-2018, 11:08 PM | #2 | ||
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Let her die. People can't even use the "What about EastEnders! What about Doctor Who!!" arguments anymore because both are now schite.
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30-12-2018, 11:10 PM | #3 | |||
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marsh did that
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31-12-2018, 06:12 AM | #4 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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The CBS of the UK.
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31-12-2018, 09:02 AM | #5 | |||
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Apart from Match of the Day and Saturday Kitchen and the odd drama , I rarely watch the Beeb, I do listen to the radio though, although I find the above hard to believe as most of the people that seem to watch EE are under 25, and programmes like Strictly have a very mixed age range, I think its just nonsense to get their scrappage of the free licence fee for the over 75s through, scrap some of the big salaries would be a good start instead of targeting their viewers
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31-12-2018, 10:50 AM | #6 | |||
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Because most younger people are on tinternet and a lot of oldies aren't.
My dad thinks Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and J.R Mogg are bad and that Theresa May is good, he gets all information from the mainstream, so of course he thinks that. |
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31-12-2018, 10:52 AM | #7 | |||
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Just watched the first ep of Les Mis, this is the sort of thing the BBC is fantastic at, opening ep was
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31-12-2018, 10:53 AM | #8 | |||
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You know my methods
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i was just watching the antiques roadshow on bbc1 last night as it goes
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31-12-2018, 11:01 AM | #9 | ||
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Scrap the licence fee altogether and drag this dinosaur into the 21st century like all other channels.
Also scrap multiple presenters of shows when one can do the role easily enough, or should be as able to. At best I watch the BBC less than 4 hours a week, if that. Things like Strictly would be snapped up by other channels if not on the BBC. I honestly wouldn't miss it at all. However the free licence fee should stay, as I said earlier however, just scrap this abhorrent fee completely and then compete like every other channel. |
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31-12-2018, 11:11 AM | #10 | |||
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The woman who bought the Lalique bowl for a pound at the car boot and it was worth 25k
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31-12-2018, 12:24 PM | #11 | ||
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31-12-2018, 02:48 PM | #12 | ||
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31-12-2018, 03:21 PM | #13 | ||
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31-12-2018, 06:30 PM | #14 | ||
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I'm sure advertisers would be queuing in a massive line to get included in ad breaks during the show. |
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31-12-2018, 06:45 PM | #15 | ||
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I'm not sure why you're talking as though we have the licence fee for Strictly Come Dancing.
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