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Originally Posted by smudgie

I am quite happy to pay the license fee..lovely to watch a programme without adverts.

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.