BBC not worth the cost of a TV Licence

The mind numbing quality of mainstream TV in general, social crime, because it is intentional. The elite do not want people to get in the way by doing to much thinking, and the BBC are at the forefront of this agenda. My advice to anyone as regards the licence fee is simple, don't pay it.

I draw your attention to the fact that the biggest gripe licence payers have has nothing whatsoever to do with ads!
Do readers think that keeping a service PAID for by LICENCE payers is ok because its ad free when the BBC execs are paid such immoral salaries? Paid for from the licence fee?
As for the argument re ads I should remind you that a large percentage of us have equipment to record programs, thus allowing us to skip the ads.As for the quality of programs I think those advocating this is the reason for the licence fee should give it a rest ! ITV let alone Channel 4 and others provide excellent programs. They don't extort money or intimidate to get it from the viewer!
The BBC has extorted money thanks to its Royal Charter from the television user in the UK far too long.
The amount of money it makes from program sales, dvd and other merchandise, open air shows and exhibitions gives no reason as to why it should not pay for itself and not rely upon the sole right to extort money from the licence payer. One of my fav writers has a more than convincing reason WHY the BBC WILL lose the right to that licence fee.. Instead of laboring under the illusion the BBC are entitled to that by right, by extortion, get used to the idea that sooner or later they WILL LOSE that right.
In a time of austerity when everyone is tightening their belts, the extortion of that tax is immoral, the lack of transparency by the BBC merely echoes the reason why they should abolish the licence fee. The BBC have tried repeatedly to evade disclosures on salaries, to group the salaries in to much more transparent way that will allow the licence fee payer to see just how much is paid in immoral salary payments to certain execs. I'm referring to their annual reports.

http://www.jesscorbinbooks.co.uk/blog/html/bbc.html

The BBC need money to produce better programmes, OK, but why do you need 3 -5 people to read the news and weather. They could save millions a year by sacking all the surplus staff who take it in turns to read a few words each, multiply that by the number of regional stations and the amount of money wasted is staggering. Next time they need a newsreader the job description should state that person must be capable of reading more than 10 words without needing a break and they should also be capable of reading sports news as well as general news, millions saved, very easy.

I had an amusing call from TV licences today. I did not renew my License as am leaving the UK next month and have disconncted my TV. Got a 'courtesy' call from licensing, to ask why I didn't renew, so I told them. Their response, "I can make a note now that you are not watching TV but you MUST call us when you leave the property to let us know." When I asked why I should call them at my cost, it is not a toll free number to tell them in a months time what I am telling them today I was told the 'system' does not allow notes to be added in advance of premises being vacated, and they expect me to call them on the day I leave and tell them then, not today. The person who called me was quite obnoxious so I simply hung up, what a cheek.

Check out the threatening letters from the bbc at http://www.bbctvlicence.com
forcing someone without a tv to pay the license! :D
I found it interesting to find out that the letters are randomly computer generated and the "signatures" from those in authority in each letter changed each time. LOL. A terrible greed driven organisation.

Everyone for the bbc argues "but without it we wouldnt have higher quality programmes, compared to other countries such as the usa with non stop adverts on some stations" etc. This is true, BUT... the bbc does NOT require £120 PER PERSON per year to do this! The extremely high wages and bonuses of bbc executives and presenters prove this (eg jonathan ross et al=£6 million pounds per year). That kind of wage is not required to present a tv show-a show that takes one hour or less to present thats usually on once a week. LOL. Now think of ALL the bbc presenters and executive staff they pay large salaries and xmas bonuses to, and then consider this:-

THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY receives a wage of £142,000 per year.

Do bbc presenters and executives work harder for this country than those highest in government? LOL-this may be debatable, but the bbc should definately be gotten rid of, or put into place with far lower wages. Mark Thompson, the director general of the bbc, was paid £838,000 in the year to the end of March 2010. It pure greed from a successful company-yes, thats humanity for you, all companies naturally do try and make as much as possible, but pushing ridiculous license fees and threatening license letters is not fair on the public. From the telegraph "The BBC employs 110 individuals who earn more than the Prime Minister's salary of £142,500, and 38 members of staff earning more than £200,000 a year – about eight times higher than the average salary of workers in Britain."

If there must be a license for those watching tv content, then it should be in the form of a subscription, or automatic tax taken from wage. In 2012, there should be a choice, as a license is only required for devices that are capable of watching live broadcasts-not just bbc content, but a license is not required if you watch pre-recorded content (dvd/cd) or play games. You need proof that you do not watch, or cannot receive such broadcasts. Such as possibly using a tv with no ariel that doesnt have built in freeview. The license is only still paid by the majority of tv owners because its been around for so long and seen as something you must do to watch a tv, when it is not. Do you remember all the threatening tv adverts warning you that you must pay or the bbc will come to your door in their "detection vans"? LOL. No one has ever been fined from the bbc forcing themselves in to their home to check if they have a television, and as far as I know, the UK is not a police state which is run by the bbc. The bbc was made responsible for licence administration, so are contracted (paid lots of money) to collect the fee on the tv license companies behalf-but the bbc do not own the license company!

Easy solution is for everyone to stop paying it they will change the way its funded in an instant.For the 3 billion they make a year they have no shows to show for it , all the classics like faulty towers , blackadder , red dwarf , QI ect can be watched on free channels even though the tv licence payers paid for them to be made and now i hear they sold F1 rights to sky!!

FCUK THE BBC!

"Why are we the only country who have to pay for a television licence?"
Why not check your facts before you spout incorrect drivel like this?

Why are we the only country who have to pay for a television licence? It is just another way for the government to get money out of us. The BBC should be going the same way as other channels and using advertisement sponsorship. People don't need licences to keep dogs anymore, so why the hell should we need one for a television?

The only thing I would say is that we should not have all the expense of collecting the TV licence fee and the detector vans and the complicated rules. There must only be a very tiny minority that don't watch TV. The BBC should just be paid from the government out of general taxation. Yes it would mean the government would have to put up some taxes but something like 5p on a litre of fuel would be fine.

Dumbed down rubbish!! , old third rate shows repeated over & over again & again!!
Foreign lands & boring foreign issues covered way too much!!.. Fed up watching middle east issues being covered!! I want to hear more of whats happening here in Britain....
BBC's really been on borrowed time in asking for payment for a very long time now with a lot of the 'Filler' dross programmes they serve up in between the odd good show here & there....

Of course scrap it! Like a lot of people I have a didgital satellite servie through which I get BBC channels and therefore their programmes, some of which are excellent. However this then means I am paying twice for the same channels. Why not seek sponsorship of programs with product placement but no seperate adverts.

Dr. Who back tonight!!

Nearly worth the licence fee by itself. (Well they do have some other good stuff too.)

we struggle finding out anything to watch on TV during the week. even now on a friday night or saturday we find housing programs repeated from years ago. buy home in the sun what crazy nut decided to put this on on a friday night. rather that watch tv we now turn to the internet.

Time to renew and not explode with rage once again. I won't say anymore than what's already been said a million times before, but.... tax, levy, unfair, monopoly, big-bully-boy criminal threats, detection lies etc. I can go out and mug a dear little white-haired old lady and get off relatively lightly but NO LICENCE. Oooer, you stinking low-life scumbag bottom feeding pustulent piece-of-MP you, how can you sleep at night? Easy, leave BBC One on and wuickly nod off at the monotonous drivel that comes out of the set...

The British public are being played for fools - we are paying the huge 6 figure salaries of BBC soap stars, news readers and celebrities whilst we struggle. We need to wake up. In the 21st Century this license fee is outdated and no-one is saying or doing anything in Westminster because they can expense their license fee. What a joke

This is the one bill that I cannot justify, the TV licence is very outdated, like most people I am paying for a service I do not use. I watch cable and DVD.

TV Licence should be scrapped why dont they make money through advertising like ITV & channel 4 NO MORE TV LICENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only good thing is NO ADVERTS- But the executives and their expenses need to be stopped to bring down the amount.

Get rid of this TAX. The bbc puts nothing but s*** on. I for one, joined the many who refuse to watch any crap the bbc put on, and have refused to pay the fee for this fact. Why should I or anyone else pay hard earned money for rubbish I dont use. They will soon listen when everyone stands up and stops paying!