Supine
Newt Member
So replace it with pure commercial TV where ratings and advertising revenue are the only things that matter. It’ll dumb down this country even further.
Hopefully labour will bring in a save the bbc policy.
BBC license fee ‘to be abolished in 2027’. What will that mean?
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So replace it with pure commercial TV where ratings and advertising revenue are the only things that matter. It’ll dumb down this country even further.
Hopefully labour will bring in a save the bbc policy.
What do you mean “replace with”? What is this bizarre view that the BBC is holding back commercialism? Most TV is already not BBC TV. And I don’t watch adverts on any of it. Meanwhile, are you making the claim that the BBC somehow don’t care about ratings? They employ Danny Dyer to do a big dumbed down game show with lots of glitz because what — it’s culturally valuable?
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Burn it down and dance in the rubble.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I got a bit of a sense of "wow" when I read the headline. Which is the desired response, I guess. Bold government taking big decisions, great dead cat stuff.
On reflection, though, the current funding arrangement for the BBC, realistically, is bound to change in 2027, isn't it? You can't really keep charging and spending in the same way for a service that people are using less and less and less.
It's after a general election anyway, so really this is just an advance announcement about what will be in their manifesto.
Of course, the Tories overseeing it will be rubbish. We'll end up with nothing but commercial TV, plus government funding for whatever list of programmes backbenchers feel they would miss too much. And the National Anthem.
On reflection, though, the current funding arrangement for the BBC, realistically, is bound to change in 2027, isn't it? You can't really keep charging and spending in the same way for a service that people are using less and less and less.
It's after a general election anyway, so really this is just an advance announcement about what will be in their manifesto.
Of course, the Tories overseeing it will be rubbish. We'll end up with nothing but commercial TV, plus government funding for whatever list of programmes backbenchers feel they would miss too much. And the National Anthem.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’m in the middle on this one. There’s no provider that doesn’t play that role in the manufacture of consent.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Your belief or otherwise is unimportant to me
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The gammons won't go for that. Everything on the BBC is woke communist propaganda, as urban's token representative from the swivel-eyed community has already confirmed.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If only it was
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Most people will claim it's left or right wing, and most people consider neoliberalism to be right-wing, as it's associated with free-market capitalism, and tends to be promoted by conservative organisations.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Burn them all!
But you weren’t reading the earlier responses on this subject, obviously. Like its neoliberal politics, the BBC will be accused of being left-wing by those who are culturally conservative but right-wing by those who are economically anti-capital. Both sides are right because there is no “middle” for it to occupy when you’re comparing things on two totally different scales.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Don't really watch much BBC TV, but listen to quite a lot of radio and podcasts. Can just imagine loads more Gammon Bastard News style channels becoming the new normal. Life and culture and discourse will degenerate further in this shit idiotic country.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
It's the inane programming I take issue with.
Political arguments aside, one of the best things about the BBC is the lack of inane ads!
This goes for radio as well.
maomao
普費斯
It will be an unpopular one if it includes saving the license fee.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Why would I expect it be otherwise?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
When you look at the absolutely massive and pointless output, you despair.
maomao
普費斯
Broadcast TV is basically for small children and pensioners. The rest of us are streaming Twitch in one eyeball and playing torrents of the latest big US TV shows in the other.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I don't know
JimW
支那暗杀团
In terms of state interests post-Brexit it's one of our few globally respected institutions and brings a cachet other governments would bite your hand off for; I understand the World Service is already funded a bit differently but the reputation comes from stuff like the nature docs too. From a UK interests point of view, keeping it going and funding it well seems a no-brainer though whether that's a license fee or grant is another matter. I rarely see much of their content either these days so in personal terms not bothered.
Plumdaff
joy in people
I am concerned about the loss of TV and radio in Welsh, about the loss of good quality children's programming, about losing radio 6 music and radio 3. I think a useful question would be what would a genuinely public broadcaster look like, what structures would need to be in place? Purely from a Welsh or Scottish perspective, I think this will be the catalyst for some thinking along those lines.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Well, after discussion with Mrs Sas, it would seem that BBC wise, the Sas household watches Strictly Come Dancing and Bargain Hunt, and isn't too fussed about Bargain Hunt. We do not regularly watch anything on BBC. If it dies, so be it.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I'm obviously a child or pensioner. I don't even understand the second sentence.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Do you wonder why there is no purely Welsh or Gaelic TV station?
gosub
~#
You k now how Saturday evening primetime telly is shit now......It'll get worse
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to make deep cuts to its programme budgetswww.theguardian.com
What’s going to happen as a result and instead of the licence fee, if this goes ahead?
I can’t see it being good news, apart from fewer women in prison for non payment. But for content it’ll just be bad.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
bimble
floofy
I don’t know but I believe you.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
He’s saying it’s because they are irrelevant, death languages. Well, he’s not saying it, but hoping everyone will do the job of inferring it so he doesn’t have to.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Fuck the market.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
My funny faces were because there are purely Welsh and Gaelic language TV stations.
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