Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV subscribers might be forced to buy a aTV licence!

100% agree. Subscribe if you wish to see the BBC output, otherwise go without. Time to remove the TV tax.

Great idea, why not just sell it to a foreign billionaire
who can broadcast more right wing chite into the swivel eyes.

Why does the BBC not introduce or issue a code for the specific use at the address of the paid licence holder? This is not transferable. If an unauthorised access is received and proven an automatic charge to the payment card of the person registered at the building using info from the electoral register, dvla, credit reference agency, hmrc, dwp, etc. In the digital age we are living a payment could be obtained with little difficulty. If all else fails, a physical visit to the address concerned. (QED).

Better if they just charge those who  want to buy woke propagana tbf.

Maybe remove the right wing bias, stacked by 14 years of tory rule,
that add just enough woke nonsense to destroy the
BBC from within, driving folk to ever more unhinged
content.

The BBC used to have a unique quality about it. Now 90% of the time I can't tell if I'm watching the Beeb or 5.

They also chase yoof culture...

Me dad used to hate top of the pops

They hate Reform, and by extension, anyone who votes for them.
That is their problem, they've done a Ratner.

Lol

BBC platforming reform, ukip, way beyond their
actual representation for decades.

Like they did during brexit, 4 remainers to one leaver on QT. Aye, right.

Lol, because one event is a fair representation
of 20 years of a TV channel you don't watch.

That is when the alienated 51% of their paying public.
It's been downhill for them ever since, Ratnered.

I suppose if blinkered folk get bitter then it's easy
to alienate them, hey ho

Now they don't watch, but talk about little else
as they are B R A I N W A S H E D elsewhere.

Nothing wrong with alienating people, unless you
expect them to pay your mortgage of course.

As above, destroy from within

Folk getting millions to facilitate it

Spaffer didn't have a pot to pish in

Appoints bloke so he can get a loan

Retires a few years later when corruption exposed

Boom... buys an ouse for 3 million cash

Otters taking 5 million before entering parliament

Lovely jubbly

Just pay for what you use. Otherwise do not use it. Simple. However, loads watch live reality shows, live news (GB News), live radio eg (LBC), live sports, etc, using a tv or a mobile. I can name at least a dozen who've chosen this practice.

inform the serious crimes squad

I've, and hmrc. TV licence evaders are mostly hmrc defrauders too. They've mega size screen tv costing at least £2000 each.

I wonder if Davey ten names has one for his boat?

Who's Davey ten names?

the tiit whisperer

Excuse my sheltered life, who's that? I see a TV chef has been questioned for an alleged sexual innuendo against a female.

Sam Coates at Sky News warning the public that photos released by No 10, of Starmer, are “government propaganda” and “fake news” without ANY discernible evidence.

He repeatedly tells people to NOT trust the photos.


...


He admitted that they were AP photos minutes later.




Lol, but damage done, eh



More left wing bias...

Anyone who doesn't like at least 10-15% of bbc content doesn't like British culture.

Let's face it, it's trying to provide for everyone in Britain, you can't like 100% of it.
But if you don't like at least 10-15% of it then you don't like British culture.

History, science, nature, music, sport, art, quiz shows for every level of IQ, drama from shakespeare to east enders.
Etc etc etc.


If you don't like some of that then nothing will make you happy.

Just had a quick look at the tv guide for tomorrow on BBC123&4.
I certainly don't see a lot i'd want to watch and i can't see much that you could call British culture.
I can't see much in the way of history, science, nature, music, sport or art but there is a lot news, antiques & quiz shows.
However i can see a lot of cheap low cost programming.

Hopefully Trump will sue them and get them shut down.

Anyone who doesn't like at least 10-15% of bbc content doesn't like British culture.

I don't like antiques, cooking/food show, nonentity chat shows or quiz shows

I can't see much in the way of history, science, nature, music, sport or art but there is a lot news, antiques & quiz shows.

You're blinded by your own agenda.

Simply looking at BBC4 schedule for tomorrow night you'll find 3 history programs, 1 science program, University challenge which has run for 60 years and therefore counts as british culture, and a british made film, also british culture.

The last BBC drama I liked was Blue Lights. It was excellent.

00:00
    The Sky at NightJodrell Bank: Tuning Into the Universe
    00:30
    Dam Busters Declassified
    01:30
    Berlusconi: Condemned to WinSeries 1, Episode 2
    02:15
    Lost Cities of the AncientsThe Dark Lords of Hattusha

Evening

    19:00
    University Challenge2022/23, Episode 7
    19:30
    Only ConnectSeries 1, Episode 7
    20:00
    From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of TemperatureSeries 1, Frozen Solid
    21:00
    The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime StorySeries 1, Episode 2
    22:00
    Remembers...Roy Clarke Remembers... A Foreign Field
    22:15
    Screen OneSeries 5, A Foreign Field
    23:45
    How to Get AheadAt Versailles

Escapee really clutching at straws here - those BBC4 programmes are mainly years old, even UC is a 2023 heat.



Talking Pictures and other Freeview channels show plenty of old stuff if that's what you want to watch.

What programmes or types of programmes should the BBC show then?

You're telling us the BBC doesn't cater for your type of British culture.

What is your type of British culture?

Diversity kills Culture.. have a walk around East London

There's a shed load of stuff on iplayer too

Two Sevens Clash by CULTURE  was a good track back in the day

did you ever see the Hammersmith Gorillas back in the 70s String ?

never heard of em Dix

Nor had i until today

DJ on Radio Caroline played some tracks as the lead singer had just pegged it. Good raucous stuff !

I saw a band called Basement five at the clarenden in hammersmith they played some heavy bass punk songs . i was at the back near the bar , couldnt believe it when  found out they were black .. Don Letts was one of em ... they had some good tunes

Last white xmas ..was one of their songs

There's a documentary on YouTube about Jesse Hector
of gorillas

https://youtu.be/v4TuOsII9i0

Totally passed me by, I think I was musically elsewhere,
but some friends have mentioned him, and this was mentioned
on a radio show I listed to, a year or two ago, maybe
longer.

Listened

Why should the BBC be Funded  ? This 2026  , surely its the choice of the Folks if they want to pay to watch something

Why not do Monthly packages I.e World Snooker , tennis , world Cup , Olympics etc ,football ,  For those who do not want to pay the Tax

people who want to pay the I.e east enders Addicts etc will

Force will lead no where , if Reform get in the BBC will be defunded if people are being forced to pay

I would say the Core Tax payers are Elderly folks , What happens when the Current crop die out ?

I can't see youngsters signing up to pay

with the History of having wrong on the screen while we are having our tea or Dinner is it any wonder people wont pay

Many have switched BBC off full stop

Good spot yhtl, i will have a look later.

Can't believe i had never heard of them considering they were playing gigs with bands like The Damned.

Jesse died last week , googled his pic, his sideburns were a wonder to behold

Just listened to Last White Christmas String, decent track ! 
Thought i half remembered the band and indeed John Peel played them a lot back in the day.

ahh Sir John Peel , put me on my music journey in 1977   some great sideburns footballers had in the 70,s  .. super mac  most of chelseas team  .. everton must of had a few

keegan and the scousers perms

mungo jerry had a lovely pair

Calm down String, calm down

Unbelievably i got a scouser perm just before my first visit to the city in 84, did it for a bet
Mind you i got so used to it i had it for 5 years

Ray Dorsey still has his String, saw him on tv a little while back

Trevor Hockey had the best beard

String have a look on youtube for Bad Brains - Right brigade or Pay to ****.
Another black punk band.

Trevor Hockey was a real cult hero with all that hair, ferocious tackler and not a bad player either.

Only 43 when he died, heart attack

I happened upon a documentary on BBC last night about
a boy 'kidnapped' by his mum, and watched it all. Good imo.

The problem for the BBC currently is that we are pretty much at the halfway point between aerial tv and streeaming.

The BBC need to be the last bastion of aerial tv but also the one progressing the move to streaming via Freely with the other public broadcasters.

Nothing will change until they switch the transmitters off but then they will need to reform the way the BBC works.

There is a lot of good stuff on the BBC still. I haven't watched the news on there in ages because they are big leftie ****** but the amount of nature documentaries you can watch in 4k on Iplayer is ten times better than what you will get on Netflix, Apple TV etc even if you give them 10-20 quid for the privildge.

The Cage was surprisingly good the other week. One minor weakness,
The excellent Michael Socha's accent was immediately identifiable
as being from Derby (not West Derby).
That apart, I thought it was a fine piece of work.

Couldn't get with The Cage. Some good dialogue, soundtrack was great, but the story was just the wrong side of ridiculous.


Catching up on Race Across the World right now. Pretty much great beeb in a microcosm. Educational and entertaining in equal measure. And I know I'm biased, but the two scouse lads are really lovely.

There are still many good programmes made and being made at the BBC. The majority of which I seldom watch eg reality tv and game shows. A licence fee of £180 is expensive, but it is what it is. The programmes at the BBC are still superior than those outside the BBC eg youtube, etc.

It's remarkable that the 2 scouse lads have been so beautifully
received wherever they have stayed.

That hotel lady letting them sleep on settee and paying their
next taxi was awesome.

Porky and Donny showing their love of the reality TV.

Couldn't make it up.

?

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors.

From the wikitoooob.

ok.


Let me know if you're adding my tv viewing habits to your doc about me and I'll see what I can do.

I wouldnt let a scouser sleep in my shed

Good one porky.

It's always a hurful response when reality TV viewers respond to any criticism with 'you must be making a documentary about me'.

Sounds like you've spent too much time on Reddit again and need to go out a walk or something.

Amazed you don't have enough info on my walking schedule yet

my walking schedule

A euphemism if ever I saw one.

A most pleasing finish, lovely series.

defo