TV licence thread

[Longcol]

46 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Your left wing credentials are questionable as you regularly support the policies of a right wing Tory government,perhaps unwittingly and with a failure to understand their motives.

Exactly - CB's posts attacking the BBC and the EU must be over a couple of thousand.

 

There's a couple of perfunctory pro-Corbyn posts and am at a loss to remember any against the Tory austerity regime.

[Car Boot]

If the BBC really is so very confident that the public loves its content - and it frequently claims to be the most loved broadcaster in the entire world - then why is it so terrified of exposing itself to commercial competition?

 

Increasingly in the modern age people move from one short-term rental contract to another, be it Britbox, Netflix, Amazon or the many other streaming services available. A UK property-based TV licence makes no sense to most UK people living in 2020, especially one that is supported by a criminal record, large fine and pain of imprisonment.

 

It's time for the BBC to stop criminalising poverty and to move beyond the hated and feared Victorian funding model it desperately wishes to continue.

[Baron99]

In this week's Radio Times, journalist, Mark Lawson has written a story regarding the licence fee. 

 

Here's an interesting snippet.  According to the BBC's Annual Report & Accounts 2018-19, £103 million from the licence fee income was spent  on "Licence fee collection costs." 

 

As Lawson points out, shouldn't the Govt be asking questions as to why the BBC is effectively spending £100 million to collect £200 million?

 

Appears there is vast inefficiency when it comes to the BBC's internal processes. 

Edited February 23, 2020 by Baron99

[Car Boot]

Less than 100 days to go until the BBC introduces it's TV licence fee concession linked to Pension Credit, in a feeble attempt to ensure that the least well off pensioners don’t have to pay. 

 

BBC TV Licensing will be writing to over 75 years old customers ahead of 1 June to explain what to do next. BBC TV Licensing says it will operate a "self-verification system where individuals simply need to demonstrate their receipt of Pension Credit in order to qualify".

 

But the BBC hasn't yet revealed what the system is!

 

The DWP refuses to supply the BBC with data regarding who is in receipt of pension credit as this contravenes data protection laws.

Edited February 23, 2020 by Car Boot

[apelike]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

In this week's Radio Times, journalist, Mark Lawson has written a story regarding the licence fee. 

 

Here's an interesting snippet.  According to the BBC's Annual Report & Accounts 2018-19, £103 million from the licence fee income was spent  on "Licence fee collection costs." 

 

As Lawson points out, shouldn't the Govt be asking questions as to why the BBC is effectively spending £100 million to collect £200 million?

 

Appears there is vast inefficiency when it comes to the BBC's internal processes. 

One of the big questions to as is how much the collection company Capita make out of this as its not possible to get the figures,

[Car Boot]

3 minutes ago, apelike said:

One of the big questions to as is how much the collection company Capita make out of this as its not possible to get the figures,

The BBC TV licence fee is a gravy train, which is why so many powerful vested interests have ensured it's survival for so long.

 

BBC greed destroys lives. 

[RJRB]

Long live the BBC

Long live the license fee

Free license for over 75s

 

 

I just thought that I would throw in a few slogans of my own.

 

[Chaddamp]

16 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

The BBC TV licence fee is a gravy train, which is why so many powerful vested interests have ensured it's survival for so long.

 

BBC greed destroys lives. 

Yes I agree .The BBC business model is old fashioned and outdated. See my posts in other topics? I still stand by what I say "They are over paid under worked" The staff really don't live in the real world.How much do they rely on  Thomson Reuters and the metoffice for info? ie they end up just reading to us rather than actually producing and presenting? They are another quango that wastes vast  amounts of our money with no accountability.GET RID !!!

[Longcol]

4 hours ago, Baron99 said:

In this week's Radio Times, journalist, Mark Lawson has written a story regarding the licence fee. 

 

Here's an interesting snippet.  According to the BBC's Annual Report & Accounts 2018-19, £103 million from the licence fee income was spent  on "Licence fee collection costs." 

 

As Lawson points out, shouldn't the Govt be asking questions as to why the BBC is effectively spending £100 million to collect £200 million?

 

Appears there is vast inefficiency when it comes to the BBC's internal processes. 

Interesting in so far as somebody, somewhere has got the amount collected totally wrong.

 

Think about it - licence fee is £154.50 - if £200 million collected then Capita are only collecting the licence fee from about 1.3 million people.

 

In fact income from licence fees in 2019 was almost  £3.7 billion.

 

https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8101

 

There are over 25 million households with a TV licence - so Capita are getting about £4 a head, not half of the fee.

Edited February 23, 2020 by Longcol

[Car Boot]

4 hours ago, RJRB said:

Long live the BBC

Long live the license fee

Free license for over 75s

 

 

I just thought that I would throw in a few slogans of my own.

 

Give the People a referendum on the future of the BBC.

 

The British public should be given control of the fate of the BBC TV licence fee.

 

Poverty is NOT a crime. End the criminalisation of women in poverty NOW.