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Originally Posted by smudgie
I am quite happy to pay the license fee..lovely to watch a programme without adverts.
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Exactly
I’m all for keeping the licencing fee and I’ll explain why. In America where there is no licencing fee, watching life television is impossible because you get 5 minutes viewing content before five minutes of adverts. An hours documentary becomes a two hour documentary because of the constant lengthy interruptions. The BBC give us content without the interruption of advertising and so has to pull in revenue for doing so. I believe if we lost the BBC to advertising then British TV would be broadcast the same way as American tv is which would be long played out content with a lot more advertising noise breaking it up.
The BBC is harnessing the amount of advertizing presently viewed on other channels.