Do You Need The BBC?

[Car Boot]

Self evidently untrue, but since you don't watch you wouldn't know.

 

Netflix costs £71.88 per year, paid monthly at £5.99 per month. It can be cancelled at any time. Netflix does not demand money with menaces as the BBC does from vulnerable groups.

 

BBC TV costs £147.00 per year (the BBC TV Licence fee is a tax on live television broadcasts, nothing else). The BBC pays Capita to send it's (commission only) goons to visit properties that are unlicensed to intimidate occupants into giving their money to the BBC.

 

71.9 per cent of all the people prosecuted by the BBC, and given a criminal record, in 2016 for not having a valid BBC TV licence were women.

 

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it recently changed to civil,not criminal for license fee evasion.

 

I'm afraid it didn't.

 

It is still a criminal offence to watch live TV without a licence. You could be prosecuted and fined up to £1,000 for doing so.

 

The BBC opposes decriminalisation of non-payment of the fee, and has said that decriminalisation could cost it up to £200m a year, warning channels may have to be closed as a result.

 

The wealthy Conservative peer Lord Grade of Yarmouth, a former chairman of the BBC, has stated:

 

"I would love to see the licence fee decriminalised. There are risks the enemies of the BBC will see it as an opportunity to then move the compulsory element of the licence fee and move the BBC to a subscription model which would completely undermine the whole concept of public service broadcasting."

Edited January 4, 2018 by Car Boot

[Magilla]

Netflix costs...

 

So, you were unable to back up your claims... what a huge surprise.

 

As before, Netflix and the BBC are not comparable services.

Edited January 4, 2018 by Magilla

[Car Boot]

So, you were unable to back up your claims... what a huge surprise.

 

As before, Netflix and the BBC are not comparable services.

 

Netflix unlimited streaming TV costs £71.88 per year.

 

BBC TV costs £147.00 per year.

 

Do the math.

[barleycorn]

Netflix unlimited streaming TV costs £71.88 per year.

 

BBC TV costs £147.00 per year.

 

Do the math.

And how much of that £71.88 goes towards national and regional radio? How much on educational output? Children's programming? Current affairs? A world renowned news service and internet platform?

Oh, wait. They don't do that.

You do the maths.

[Magilla]

Netflix unlimited streaming TV costs £71.88 per year.

 

It's not unlimited, you're restricted to only 1 device at a time, and you don't get any HD content for your £71.88.

 

BBC TV costs £147.00 per year.

 

Which delivers a significantly wider range of programming than Netflix, all in HD on an unlimited number of devices at once. Then there's radio, and the online presence.

 

Self evidently, Netflix and the BBC are not comparable services.

 

Do the math.

 

Indeed, for the price paid the BBC is exceptional value for money

[Car Boot]

And how much of that £71.88 goes towards national and regional radio?

 

Not a penny.

 

Netflix focuses on creating and delivering high quality, diverse television content to its customers. A BBC TV licence is NOT required to listen to any UK radio station, national or regional. Only to watch or record live TV, including the BBC iPlayer.

 

The majority of BBC radio stations are populist and simply replicate the services provided by their commercial rivals. There is little unique about BBC Radio 1 and 2, and these two, for example, should not be publicly funded. They don't provide anything that the commercial sector couldn't deliver - both in their peak daytime and evening specialist programming.

 

How much on educational output? Children's programming? Current affairs? A world renowned news service and internet platform?

Oh, wait. They don't do that.

You do the maths.

 

When it comes to children's programming Netflix spends considerably more each year on this than the BBC, which has drastically reduced it's children's output over the last decade.

 

As for the BBC's sprawling Internet platform, it is simply evidence of huge empire building and extraordinary and outrageous waste. The BBC is simply too big and too remote.

 

Any commercial organisation that treats it's customers the way the BBC treats the licence fee payer (with its arrogant dismissal of complaints and enquiries for information about how it uses public funding, and the threats and intimidation it employs to get people to keep giving it money) would have closed down long ago.

 

The only thing keeping the BBC going is the compulsory TV licence fee. And the BBC is well aware of this.

 

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It's not unlimited, you're restricted to only 1 device at a time, and you don't get any HD content for your £71.88.

 

Even paying for Netflix HD and many devices at the same time is considerably less than the cost of the £147 BBC TV licence fee.

 

There is considerably more choice of content available on Netflix that that offered by the very expensive and out of touch, dumbed down BBC.

[Magilla]

Even paying for Netflix HD and many devices at the same time is considerably less than the cost of the £147 BBC TV licence fee.

 

4 devices max and a significantly reduced range and type of programming.

 

As before, Netflix and the BBC are not comparable services.

 

There is considerably more choice of content available on Netflix

 

Within a very limited range.

 

that that offered by the very expensive and out of touch, dumbed down BBC.

 

Speaking of dumb, who can't differentiate between a public service organisation and an entertainment company again? Maybe you should watch some BBC to help you out

Edited January 4, 2018 by Magilla

[Car Boot]

The BBC now simply replicates what is offered by the commercial sector - at considerably more expense and waste.

 

There is absolutely no good reason for the BBC to not be just the television channels BBC1 and BBC2. Then it could concentrate on creating the wonderful television content it, long ago now, used to be famous for. Instead, it has become a monster, owning hundreds of websites and stifling private sector competition to justify it's own bloated existence.

[Magilla]

The BBC now simply replicates what is offered by the commercial sector - at considerably more expense and waste.

 

Except, the commercial sector does not replicate much of what the BBC does. Oops.

 

There is absolutely no good reason for the BBC to not be just the television channels BBC1 and BBC2. Then it could concentrate on creating the wonderful television content it, long ago now, used to be famous for.

 

It's still famous for it, but of course you wouldn't know, you don't watch!

 

Instead, it has become a monster, owning hundreds of websites and stifling private sector competition to justify it's own bloated existence.

 

Ooops, your "anti-capitalist" cred is looking shakey again!

Edited January 4, 2018 by Magilla

[Car Boot]

4 devices max and a significantly reduced range and type of programming.

 

As before, Netflix and the BBC are not comparable services.

 

Any four devices at the same time, which seems ample to me, including HD and Ultra HD.

 

As before, the £147.00 BBC TV licence fee is simply for watching live TV. Netflix is better value for money with more choice and diverse content.

 

That's why households are leaving the BBC in their droves.