[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The BBC channels are funded by a fee and don't have commercials or (supposedly) product placement.

Tbqfh that maybe justified it back when we only had 4 or 5 over the air channels so the BBC was half of our TV. These days there are dozens of free to air channels and the BBC makes up like 4 of them, so it's a ridiculous price to ask.

100% agreement from me as to all that.
I detest and begrudge every pence of this absurd fee.