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Post by Teddy Bear on Jul 3, 2005 21:45:50 GMT
Perhaps there are many of you already familiar and disgusted with the BBC real agenda, and are further incensed at having to pay to support them via the TV license.
Since it is only through this means that the BBC maintains its now ill-deserved status as an impartial independent broadcaster, thereby giving their corrupt reportage added weight, then responsible aware citizens should cease supporting them.
You may or may not be aware of your rights regarding this step if you choose to take it, particularly in light of the BBC's and TVL's intimidation and harassment. I therefore highly recommend the site [ftp]www.tvlicensing.biz[/ftp] for terrific information that will open your eyes to the facts and empower you.
Take the future of our society into your own hands. Don't support corruption.
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Post by Big Mouth on Sept 14, 2005 12:39:32 GMT
Perhaps there are many of you already familiar and disgusted with the BBC real agenda, and are further incensed at having to pay to support them via the TV license. Since it is only through this means that the BBC maintains its now ill-deserved status as an impartial independent broadcaster, thereby giving their corrupt reportage added weight, then responsible aware citizens should cease supporting them. You may or may not be aware of your rights regarding this step if you choose to take it, particularly in light of the BBC's and TVL's intimidation and harassment. I therefore highly recommend the site www.tvlicensing.biz for terrific information that will open your eyes to the facts and empower you. Take the future of our society into your own hands. Don't support corruption. |
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Post by Big Mouth on Sept 14, 2005 12:45:59 GMT
Some mornings I get a lousy wavering signal on Radio 4, so the Humph's untrained voice cascades and climbs even more inaudibly. Why don't we force them to use our money to improve quality (all kinds)? And also, the weather only happens in sparsely populated areas of the country! If you don't think so just monitor the huge amount of time spent talking about the atmospheric conditions for the wilds of Scotland or Wales, and precious little on the crowded parts of England where most of us licence payers live and want to know what's going to fall or shine on us!
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 15, 2005 20:45:21 GMT
Some mornings I get a lousy wavering signal on Radio 4, so the Humph's untrained voice cascades and climbs even more inaudibly. Why don't we force them to use our money to improve quality (all kinds)? And also, the weather only happens in sparsely populated areas of the country! If you don't think so just monitor the huge amount of time spent talking about the atmospheric conditions for the wilds of Scotland or Wales, and precious little on the crowded parts of England where most of us licence payers live and want to know what's going to fall or shine on us! It looks as if you're going to get you wish. 15/9/2005 5:13:48 PM
( Source: Reuters)
BBC to subsidise transition to digital TV
By Adam Pasick
CAMBRIDGE (Reuters) - Poor, elderly and disabled Britons will receive help to get digital television so they are not left without TV when Britain switches off its analogue signal, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said on Thursday.
Britain is moving towards shutting off its analogue signal by 2012 in order to provide more channels and interactive TV services. But the transition threatens to leave some households without television unless supplementary steps are taken.
The assistance -- subsidised equipment such as a Freeview set-top box, new aerial and help installing it -- will be paid out of the BBC licence fee, the mandatory tax on all television households that currently totals more than 3 billion pounds a year.
People who are receiving certain forms of government funding will receive the equipment and installation for free, and others who qualify will be charged "a modest fee", Jowell said in an advance copy of a speech to the Royal Television Society.
"Nearly two-thirds of the population have already exercised their private choice to go digital," she said. "Yet many of those yet to go digital are exactly the people that the state has a duty to protect -- the elderly, the disabled, the poorest."  Oh, how caring. The same state that 'protects these people', will continue authorizing the BBC to send TVL round to hound and threaten them for the license fee, and fine and imprison those caught failing to pay it. I wish there was a smiley showing someone throwing up. A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport declined to say how much the assistance programme would cost. Consulting firm Enders Analysis has estimated that the total cost including marketing will be about 865 million pounds.
About 63 percent of the country’s households have digital television, mostly through satellite TV firm BSkyB, cable companies NTL and Telewest and the fast-growing, subscription-free Freeview platform, according to data released on Thursday by media regulator Ofcom.
Freeview is only available to about 75 percent of the population, and its reach cannot be fully extended until the analogue signal is shut off. BSkyB also has a free satellite service, and ITV and the BBC said last week they would team up to launch a free satellite service.
Jowell said shutoff would proceed region-by-region beginning in 2008 with the ITV border region and with London among the last to be affected in 2012. |
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Post by devilsadvocate on Sept 20, 2005 17:48:07 GMT
Where we do we go if do support the licence fee?  Okay, so as a concept the licence is pretty bizarre concept, and there are undoubtedly areas where the bbc need to improve/be reformed, but I can't see which of the alternative is going to be an improvement. And for all their flaws, they do redeem themselves with 6Music (which puts just about every other radio station to shame) |
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 20, 2005 19:20:14 GMT
Welcome devilsadvocate
Not being familiar with 6Music, I can't comment as to its quality, but I'm glad you enjoy it. As to what alternative might be an improvement, consider this;
If you were having a builder do some work for you, would you pay them in advance regardless of the work they did for it, or would you pay them as you felt their performance warranted it?
I'm willing to bet it would be the latter. The fact that you get some quality from the BBC, doesn't mean that they warrant or justify the billions of pounds they get from the license fee. If they had to compete in the private sector, where performance meant success or failure, instead of the 'automatic success' regardless, it would be a whole different ballgame. If you like it - pay for it, just like Sky. To be threatened with stiff fines or imprisonment for failing to support this behemoth is immoral.
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Oh, how caring. The same state that 'protects these people', will continue authorizing the BBC to send TVL round to hound and threaten them for the license fee, and fine and imprison those caught failing to pay it. I wish there was a smiley showing someone throwing up.
