Tv licence

[delilah]

So are you saying we should pay our license fees to get free advertising?

Yes, because it is inordinately good value for money to the point of being free. How many hours a year does the BBC commit to covering farming on radio and TV ? An audience of millions. As said, it's not their fault that we are utterly incapable of making the most of it.

 

[Guleesh]

I was getting these on such a regular basis I called the number and complained. The property was empty and the previous Tenant had not a Licence for 3 years...

I wonder if there is a case that this is harassment?

We were getting them years ago and I was refusing to respond, my wife said I was being petty, which is probably true, so she went online and informed them again that we do not require a license, we got confirmation that we didn't need a license. A year later they just started again. I'd say it's harassment, if I sent somebody a letter every single month for years threatening inspections and demanding money on the false assumption they'd stolen a lamb off me, then I'm pretty sure I'd be up in court before too long.

 

[Guiggs]

I've not got a license as I won't bank roll a cooperation intent on the destruction of country/ farm life, that protects and turns a blind eye to child abusers, and supports the far left middle classes in their war on our history.
The increasing desperate threatening letters they send really is amusing.
I don't watch live TV or iplayer so I don't need to pay my TV tax.
Don't respond to any of their communications just bin them and should their inspector turn up, he hasn't yet despite their threats that he was going to on at 3 separate occasions, I will politely till him he's wasting my time and his so goodbye.
Simple.
F**k the BBC!

 

[Guleesh]

Yes, because it is inordinately good value for money to the point of being free. How many hours a year does the BBC commit to covering farming on radio and TV ? An audience of millions. As said, it's not their fault that we are utterly incapable of making the most of it.

I don't really agree with you on any of this, it's not good value for money. I dunno about the recent programmes obviously, as I have no license, but IMO the BBC news appears to be heavily biased against livestock farming and in favour of veganism. Why we should have to pay to defend ourselves against people determined to promote malnutrition I don't know. We should be making the most of the opportunity to promote ... food? The paedophile harbouring isn't easy to overlook either TBH.

I do agree with you that there's one or two muppets on TFF though.

 

[melted welly]

What other industry gets its own programme 6 days a week ?
If you muppets are incapable of making constructive use of the free advertizing time then that's your problem, not Aunty's.

Travel industry?
Estate agents?
Conservation industry?
Charities?
Gardening/horticulture?
Various celebs promoting their “wares?”

Assume you mean the 13mins of farming today on radio 4 at 05.45?

The shipping forecast is 12mins long. Women’s hour will spend twice as long as that discussing whether cutlery is sexist.

There is a pretty clear agenda at the BBC just now, trotting out the same old skewed figures on climate change, whilst rejoicing in overseas travel and consumerism. You can write to them and you’ll get a patronising reply.

In a previous life my wife did work with a conservation charity who were featured on a BBC Chris Peckham programme. What was filmed and discussed bore no resemblance whatsoever to what was presented. She left the conservation industry shortly after, thoroughly disillusioned.

I’ve cancelled my licence, don’t see why I should pay for something that I don’t use. Turn any of their mediums on and guarantee you’ll hear “gender” “eat less meat” “equality” etc etc etc within 15 mins.

They had big discussions on the merits of toppling various statues by BLM, yet none on the statue of the Eric Gill that adorns their Broadcasting House HQ. Eric Gill? Well he shagged his sister, raped 2 of his daughters and even had it away his bloody dog, but that’s fine apparently.


As a white, heterosexual, native British male who works in agriculture, the BBC currently has absolutely NOTHING of interest to me and as said previously their corporate morality leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[valtra]

Biased brain washing corporation....why anyone especially farming folk would want to fund this lying deceiving arrogant disgusting organisation, that constantly pushing its own agenda....I look forward to the day it ceases to exist, but saying that channel 4 and some off the other channels are almost as bad with there woke crap being pushed down our necks at every opportunity...needless to say I cancelled my license years ago

 

[wanton dwarf]

Careful what you wish for, you'll miss it when it's all gone commercial with programmes between the ads. At £3 /week it's worth every penny to have ad free TV. Like many on here, I've travelled a bit and I'd say UK TV is easily the best in the world, and in our gloomy old winter nights we need some cheer..........

I suggest you go watch YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime. You will find a wealth of unexplored talent. Unfortunately the BBC is heavily baised.

I haven't watch Biased Broadcasting for about 15 years now.

I had a TV license and realised I was just using the internet everyday. From that point on I cancelled my TV license.

However, the BBC bullied me for years with threatening letters and eventually a man came in wanting to see my "Equipment" to verify I wasn't watching TV. They don't have a right to be on your property without a warrant to search your property. So I told him his implied right of acces was removed and to leave the premises immediately as he was tresspassing.

The reality is the BBC is a private company with a legal remit to implement a TV tax.

 

[Daddy Pig]

If there was no BBC there would be no Death In Paradise to watch this winter.

 

[wanton dwarf]

I agree... Having seen the absolute shite on offer in the US, I am pleased that the BBC has a good choice with (mostly) no adverts!

I don't any adverts on anything I watch. If you are getting adverts on the internet use "Adblock plus" and "DuckDuckGo Essentials" on your web-browser.

 

[melted welly]

If there was no BBC there would be no Death In Paradise to watch this winter.

Is that not made at BBC Studios?

The sister private company that generates significant profit from selling programmes made with the licence fee.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Yes, because it is inordinately good value for money to the point of being free. How many hours a year does the BBC commit to covering farming on radio and TV ? An audience of millions. As said, it's not their fault that we are utterly incapable of making the most of it.

There's an audience of Billions on the internet. Time to move on with the times.

The truth is the BBC doesn't know how many people watch their programs in the same fashion that they don't know what's on your TV - which they lied about for decades.

 

[toquark]

I gave up the licence. Nothing to do with farming really, just got completely fed up of the constant drip feed of liberal bullsh!t being shoehorned into storylines in dramas etc. The final straw was during the Brexit debate.

Pity really as I used to enjoy the beeb, but along with the rest of the corporate media, they’re scratching about trying to lure in younger viewers (who aren’t and never will be watching) with right-on nonsense and in turn annoying the only people who are watching (older, usually small c conservatives).

It is a complete irrelevance and life is better without it. Plus I’m £150 a year better off

 

[Blue.]

Looks like farmers aren’t giving the bbc much money,I gave up with a license about 5 years ago.

 

[Daddy Pig]

Is that not made at BBC Studios?

The sister private company that generates significant profit from selling programmes made with the licence fee.

You might be right there. What about the Archers, got to be worth the licence fee on its own.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Is that not made at BBC Studios?

The sister private company that generates significant profit from selling programmes made with the licence fee.

Not quite - BBC Studios is a subsidiary of the BBC that not only produces content that is distributed worldwide as well as domestically, as well as work directly commissioned by customers, but also provides a not insignificant sum of money each year to the BBC, to help fund the overall BBC offering....

 

[melted welly]

Not quite - BBC Studios is a subsidiary of the BBC that not only produces content that is distributed worldwide as well as domestically, as well as work directly commissioned by customers, but also provides a not insignificant sum of money each year to the BBC, to help fund the overall BBC offering....

So they could maybe do without the licence fee, or go subscription based if they pushed the studios a bit harder and trimmed some fat?

 

[delilah]

As a white, heterosexual, native British male who works in agriculture, the BBC currently has absolutely NOTHING of interest to me

If that's your criteria, then I would have thought that the farming programmes were your last remaining haven ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094mqlx

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Careful what you wish for, you'll miss it when it's all gone commercial with programmes between the ads. At £3 /week it's worth every penny to have ad free TV. Like many on here, I've travelled a bit and I'd say UK TV is easily the best in the world, and in our gloomy old winter nights we need some cheer..........

that fine but i stream everything now, itv etc has been shite for years,

So there no add for me anyway as its paid streaming,

licence going this time as there complete cocks, i hate the bbc

best thing for years for British farming was Clarkson's farm, what was that on again.... oh yea Amazon!!!

 

[Weasel]

Careful what you wish for, you'll miss it when it's all gone commercial with programmes between the ads. At £3 /week it's worth every penny to have ad free TV. Like many on here, I've travelled a bit and I'd say UK TV is easily the best in the world, and in our gloomy old winter nights we need some cheer..........

I've got the Mrs for that

 

[Red Fred]

I weaned myself off the TV when mum passed away and I was no longer covered by her free license. It wasn't because of the anti-farming bias particularly, but I found I was spending more time tinkering about doing something creative or else interacting with folks online, and found that much more enjoyable than having other peoples' dross beamed into my head for hours on end.
I ignored the threatening letters for ages but must confess that I finally gave in and registered for "no TV", which I rather regret now, as I don't see why I should have to do their work for them, and still think that we should be considered innocent until proven guilty. The whole idea that we can't possibly survive without a tellie is pretty arrogant of them.
I feel that paying for the BBC is akin to buying a better class of propaganda. I found myself watching Mock the Week recently while out visiting, and it was simply dire. Supposed cutting-edge comedians were just trotting out tired insults at the usual suspects and it was embarrassing to watch.