http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31623659


My only real concern at this point is mission creep when it comes to the independence of Beeb news coverage. Cos it's increasingly the only thing I actually give a stuff about with the BBC. Ridiculous mini-ads telling me what channel I'm watching, Breakfast is promo central apart from the business and sports news, and everything I'd bother to watch is now on a Friday night. The only slight saving grace is the occasional documentary or similar.

iPlayer is almost fcuking useless since they gave favourites a tiny limit - don't they realise that people used it to 'store' their, you know, favourite shows? And that's when it isn't killing the system you're watching it on! Who wants to go searching for and continually forgetting about programmes all the time?

All of the above is why I'd now be quite pissed off at a compulsory levy because I'd sooner go without broadcast TV altogether. I use currently free catch-up TV for the few progs I watch, and I can't say I'd especially miss them when it comes to a fee. Hello, American downloads of TV actually worth watching...

TBH I feel the same way. It's an outdated model for an outdated system. I watch the BBC News in the morning and that's about it. I sometimes have Dave on Freeview and I might watch the odd show. Otherwise I'll use Netflix or just not watch TV.

BBC news has gone down the toilet over the last few years. They spend half their time on breakfast news trying and failing to be funny, and the other half advertising BBC shows and presenters.
Sky news actually reports news.
Russell Howard puts his show on YouTube now, so there only new episodes of top gear that the BBC is good for.

Good grief.


There are lots of interesting questions about online distribution given the production model Birt & co moved the BBC to - they don't actually make much TV themselves any more and it's much easier for an independent production company to maintain online distribution rights as a separate thing.

Monday nights I watch a bit of BBC 2. And BBC breakfast for the local travel updates. And the six nations. That's it. But then I probably only watch about 8 hours of TV a week on average anyway. However I have no real issue with paying $12 a month to maintain the BBC as an organisation given the amount of stuff I don't want to watch but can recognise the quality of, if you get what I mean. I pay a hell of a lot more in taxes towards centrally provisioned things that a lot crapper, frankly.

Jon

Are you sure about that?

The BBC might be a poor imitation of what it used to be when it was the benchmark for quality television, but there's still more stuff I want to watch on it then all the other channels put together.

Channel 4, More 4, E4 FTW!

I've about given-up with BBC News - so biased - and a lot of what is going on around the world doesn't get mentioned.

As for Breakfast on BBC - dont get me started - pile of <lifted> and has been for some time now.

The sooner the licence fee is scrapped the better - and, no, I don't want it replaced by a compulsary tax thank you very much.

Fair enough, what would you like it replaced by?

If they take on adverts, it will have the effect of me not watching very much TV at all.

Enough adverts on it now as it is.

PAYG for the BBC - if you wanna watch it - you pay for it - not tax everyone for it.

They wouldn't have enough money to make anything then

Except telethons. And every program would have a little advert saying "this show was paid for by your generous contributions" like PBS productions in the US.