The 'I Cannot Fucking Believe My License Fee Is Wasted On THAT' thread
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BBC Breakfast would be ok if it didn't insist on turning it into a promotional tool for Strictly Come Dancing/The Apprentice/Celebrity Ice Skating....etc etc
As other have also said. Two Pints is just awful. Does anyone actually like it?
There are a lot of good things about the beeb though, the websites, the radio (occasionally), the journalism, newsnight, BBC Parliament, Planet Earth, The Proms / Electric Proms, Match Of The Day, specialist music still getting representation on national radio.
As other have also said. Two Pints is just awful. Does anyone actually like it?
There are a lot of good things about the beeb though, the websites, the radio (occasionally), the journalism, newsnight, BBC Parliament, Planet Earth, The Proms / Electric Proms, Match Of The Day, specialist music still getting representation on national radio.
Skim
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I'm in two minds. On one hand, the licence fee is still fantastic value and the BBC's output can be something to be proud of, but as times change and people get their information and entertainment from so many other sources, the compulsory licence fee is going to become harder and harder to justify.
About ten years ago I worked as a temp in the BBC's PR department at Broadcasting House and they were dealing with a pressure group which was campaigning to abolish the licence fee. I had some sympathy with the pressure group after seeing the excesses of the department I was working in – communications people getting cabs everywhere, enjoying expensive lunches and having a huge bunch of flowers delivered to the office every week. All on licence fee payers' money. I hope this extravagance wasn't indicative of the corporation as a whole (and didn't cost that much in the grand scheme of things), but it made me feel quite cynical about Auntie Beeb. Perhaps unfairly – many BBC staff put up with low pay and don't have the luxury of having flowers delivered to their offices each week.
That aside, I would be happier paying the BBC on a subscription basis, just paying for the programmes/services I want rather than being forced to pay for services I don't want, like BBC3 or sport or another pointless home improvement programme. Surely it will have to go that way eventually. The BBC wouldn't have problems attracting subscribers – they provide some of the best-quality programming/journalism in the world.
About ten years ago I worked as a temp in the BBC's PR department at Broadcasting House and they were dealing with a pressure group which was campaigning to abolish the licence fee. I had some sympathy with the pressure group after seeing the excesses of the department I was working in – communications people getting cabs everywhere, enjoying expensive lunches and having a huge bunch of flowers delivered to the office every week. All on licence fee payers' money. I hope this extravagance wasn't indicative of the corporation as a whole (and didn't cost that much in the grand scheme of things), but it made me feel quite cynical about Auntie Beeb. Perhaps unfairly – many BBC staff put up with low pay and don't have the luxury of having flowers delivered to their offices each week.
That aside, I would be happier paying the BBC on a subscription basis, just paying for the programmes/services I want rather than being forced to pay for services I don't want, like BBC3 or sport or another pointless home improvement programme. Surely it will have to go that way eventually. The BBC wouldn't have problems attracting subscribers – they provide some of the best-quality programming/journalism in the world.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Preferably in the middle of mine and help slow down the petrolheads determined to use all their gears before they get to the end of it ....gnoriac said:
secretsquirrel
Respectable married lady
I saw a trailer for a programme called 'Fat teens can't hunt'. It's gonna be on BBC3. Nuff said.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Skim said:Another waste of the licence fee – all those self-aggrandising promos the BBC likes to make, showing us just how important it is.
"This is what we do" – what, Dog Borstal?
Apologies to the DB lovers. But you know I'm right
Bollocks!
I really like Dog Borstal.
In fact, there is a lot of interesting stuff on BBC Three.
Maybe the whole point of the licence fee is that it caters to everyone?
You may not like it, but there are others that do.
In fact, I will go one step futher and declare proudly that I do like Two Pints.
So bollocks to the lot of you snobs!
(I listen to Radio 4 too)
psycherelic
I'm not an old hippy!
George lamb, Phil Jupitas when he does his (now thankfully occasional) slots on 6music and the insane pregnant woman they used to have on saturday mornings on 6music before they replaced her with adam and joe (great choise!)
I'm sure there's lots of other worse stuff but I don't come across it becasue I spend most of my time listening to 6music, radio 4 and BBC 7.
Oh yeah I definatly argee on the moral maze too
I'm sure there's lots of other worse stuff but I don't come across it becasue I spend most of my time listening to 6music, radio 4 and BBC 7.
Oh yeah I definatly argee on the moral maze too
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
They say 'celebrity culture', 'target audience' and 'catering for all interests' to me - you want the BBC to ignore the zeitgeist and to programme only Saturday night light entertainment material ?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
mrs quoad said:
i loved this
it's comedy, the first series was genius, the Beeb spend money on much dumber things like J.Ross' salary surely , radio is very cheap to make.
Funniest of all was the (sadly now axed) straight-to-air slot on Clive Bull's show, which surely must have been the inspiration for Down The Line.
Maurice Picarda
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