When I called the BBC to cancel earlier this year, I was asked for the main reason why, I told them it was mainly due to their disgusting stance on Palestine and got the response "fair enough!"
@@DesertObserver491 What makes you think that the BBC contributes money for genocide. Now Hamas - there's an organisation that actually has genocide as its main purpose.
I can't remember which channel it was, but I was suspicious of the coverage as soon as that war was declared. it had a rolling red and white banner showing the words 'War on Terror' over and over for hours on end. The brainwashing of the public mind couldn't have been more blatant, and yet many wouldn't have noticed. and after the initial success, there was Andrew Marr saying that Tony Blair had been vindicated and proven all his critics wrong. How hollow that is now. How could anyone trust anything he says after that?
The main thing that annoys me about the BBC is how patronising it is; it is so dumbed down and clearly thinks the population is composed of morons. Perhaps it is, but chasing them down to the bottom is not the solution, especially for a publicly funded broadcaster.
Would rather pay that licence fee to the NHS. The NHS could use an extra 4.1358 Billion. The British propaganda and genocide defence cooperation don't deserve anything.
@@Tao_TologyFree to access? Hello, you have to pay a license fee for the BBC. On other channels the news is free to access because you don’t have to pay a license fee.
Any organization that needs to threaten people with legal action to get their funding needs to go. how is it legal to treat anyone without a TV as being guilty?
oh yeah the letters are unreal. how is that even legal ? what other business hound you and threaten you month after month until to buy their product. they go straight in the bin. bloody cheek
"Any organization that needs to threaten people with legal action to get their funding needs to go." I didn't realise that Novara viewers were so free-market!
@@ConstructiveMinds100”They” don’t know what channels you watch. Only viewing the iPlayer app, would “they” have captured your IP address, which could be connected with the address the router is located.
@@JoeEbitDa "for the value it provides" There are better freer NEWS sources and there are better cheaper streaming services like netflix, amazon prime or dinsey+. Sky is also not worth it if that's what you want me to say.
I used to be a TV addict. Today I don't own a TV and I couldn't be happier. Looking back, I realise how controlled I was by the national narrative I used to be. Now, as long as I've got my computer and an internet connection ....... I'm fine.
I’m Canadian and grew up with my father religiously watching BBC news every night at 6 pm. As a young adult and later an adult, I would read BBC news first thing every morning. I deleted the app in Nov 2023. I feel like a fool for ever thinking they were an impartial news source. The media’s take on Gaza has really shed a light on how much garbage the public has been fed. I am now an avid subscriber of RU-vid channels like this one. Just two cents from a friendly Canadian.
We were all fooled.. the "Auntie Beeb " personna was rolled out while behind the scenes it was a Right Wing Establishment propaganda tool.. snd for decades whitewashed Israeli crimes in occupied Palestine and blamed Palestinians..
I watch very little, but I did watch the first night of the Proms and very glad I did. The piece Hallelujah Sim by Ben Nobuto, a BBC commission, was the opposite of garbage. Made me laugh and made me cry a little too. It was fantastic. I Ioved it! This is one of the things the BBC does best and what makes it valuable. A far cry from the abomination that is the BBC news and current affairs.
Didn’t cancel mine, just stopped paying it. Since then they’ve spent more than the licence fee sending me letters and visits where they leave you an intimidating note through your door. I don’t watch tv or use any bbc services, but I refuse to declare I won’t watch it. There are millions of pay for services in the world, and I don’t have to declare I don’t want any of those.
@@cehaem2It really is not the market rate. Other radio stations do not pay that much. Lineker gets £1.3 million. No one watches MOTD because of him. The BBC is starstruck.
@@timg1246 Commercial stations don't have to disclose how much their stars are making. Still, reports indicate that some of the GMB presenters earn above 700k p.a. with one particular presenter hovering at around 1m. Do you seriously think people at the BBC sign off these contracts without hard data and market analysis? I'm sure you would do MOTD for 60k but the problem is - you are not Gary Lineker. MOTD is very prestigious and the BBC as the national broadcaster wants to have some prolific names on the show.
@@cehaem2well good the BBC should be a decent play for apprentices and people starting out not a place to pay millions for repeats, low quality show and properganda news. It's the same with there TV, radio and online presence
I am probably one of the few people that don't mind paying the TV licence as i think the BBC (other than news) put out some decent programme's. I don't know how the Licence fee compares to other subscrition channels as i don't subscribe to any.
I'm going to cancel mine this year, I'm sick of BBC news propaganda, and wall to wall repeats. I shan't play this year. I shall bin the TV. I'm 77, by the way.
I don't know if your statement about binning the T.V. is literal or figurative but if it's still in good working order, then might I suggest asking members of your family if any of them would like it? If you ask & none want it, ask friends if any of them would like it, & if no, then consider giving it to a charity?
Cancelled my TV licence a month ago. I will not fund a tool of the state that's instructed to be an indifferent bystander to the genocide taking place in Gaza.
@@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn the BBC isn’t neutral though. They often take a right-leaning stance, and has openly smeared, or allowed for open smearing of public figures, while giving disproportionate amounts of screen time to Fromage and co. That’s not indifference.
I'd rather they use the Channel 4 model because there's still a few BBC programmes I occasionally watch, but there's no way I'd subscribe to them while they're paying people like Laura Kuenssberg hundreds of thousands of pounds a year!
They won’t do this, or will avoid it. They know that their revenue with TANK, because now they use predatory tactics to get people to pay what is effectively a tv tax. Once they have to go legit, people will opt out (they don’t think they can now).
the government will not want to change their propaganda arm (it IS what the BBC was set up to do during WW1).. i tell you now.. it'll go on a media tax for your internet.. or.. your council tax
Cancelled my licence when Cameron started installing his mates into the top jobs. Not to mention sycophantic coverage of Royals. Forced me to search out alternative sources of journalism and so glad I did. Watching any of the MSM now, particularly the coverage of Gaza and Ukraine, is unbearable
I wonder how many people keep paying for their TV license because they are intimidated by TV licensing. They treat you like a criminal and send you overly threatening letters just for refusing to pay for something you don't need.
@@whtwht It is if you watch live TV without paying but a lot of people don't, yet they are still too scared to cancel because you'll have people knocking on your door and threatening you with letters.
When i was in the uk as an international student, i was not aware of this tax. Heck i receieved the threatening mail as soon as i moved in and i didn't even have a Tv yet! I was so scared that i might be kicked out of the country i quickly paid the tax. Even though i was never planing on watching live tv, i was planning on getting a tv and i assumed the tax was if i had a tv and was not aware that it is for the BBC. I think they really rely on people being unaware and bully/ scare people into paying.
@@ilia2178 may I ask a question as A Dutchie, so if you don’t pay, are you then just being cut off from being able to watch? or is it still available to watch the bbc and its services? How does this go?
The BBC is *huge*, and *hugely irrelevant*. 30 years ago I served briefly on a BBC local radio advisory committee (never again!), and I told them (back then) that people were switching off as they only wanted to serve the 60+ age group and eventually their listenership would evaporate. Back then they cut all their truly local content (so not truly 'local' at all) and had nothing to say to younger people (so nothing for the next generation). I simply cannot see the point of the BBC as it's currently structured. It could be 25% of the size and be 200% better.
I cancelled my TV license back in 2010 when I stopped watching TV. I used to think the BBC were fairly impartial then, but the Tories have tainted it since
BBC was a good source of neutral information until they were reporting on too much of the tory corruption and incompetence, then Cameron said he would revoke the licensing and the BBC execs immediately began targeting only Labour mps instead
My mother wanted to cancel but the sheer amount of spam letters saying she’d pay a penalty made her do it out of fear. I on the other hand am well informed and know the law, so mine was cancelled
Are you ideologically opposed to a publicly funded broadcaster, or you just don't like the BBC in its current form? A lot of good has come out of the publicly funded model. The BBC isn't perfect and things have changed dramatically in the age of streaming but I think people don't know what they've got until it's gone. It should be reformed not thrown away.
Yes, I'm nervous about binning the BBC. I'm not happy with lots of it. It's not impartial. I hate its deference to the monarchy and 'talent'. I don't use most of it, but I can't stand the idea of American telly taking over, and seeing the quality of TV in other countries, I feel we're lucky, but it should move with the times. I guess there's RU-vid though...😆
@@lyndallspagnoletti6850The right wing and corporate 'media' interests are VERY keen for free-to-access news and information not to be available. Which _should_ give folk pause for thought.
Jon Wedger Ex Metropolitan Police officer stated he wrote to the BBC he will pay his licence fee IF they will put in writing his money will not be used for paedophilia. The BBC cancelled their own bill! What does that tell you?
@@Whitepawprintyou can stop the letter if you régister on their site and say you arent interested on buying one ,then letter stop for 2 years If you dont care about them, just bin them,anyone show at your door have no légal right to enter your property,so tell them not inrested by licence and close the door.of course if you own tv make sure they can't visual see it
I was once at BBC studios in London, we were behind a glass sound screen witnessing a live news broadcast and as clips were showing there was an argument taking place between producer and presenter over the numbers. He was advised to state the unverified larger number as it “sounded better” in other words is was more sensationalist. Never trusted them against after that.
@@cjthebeesknees Yeah saw that I did notice They knocked me friends door She opend window And got out the hose pipe And she start spraying Go away disease go go go go Dont mess around with japanese
96% for the over-55 watching BBC sounds about right 😀 I haven’t got a tv 😎 Laura Knuessberg in particular is a good example of the problem with the BBC.
I don't understand people saying they don't have a TV. Do you all not understand how modern TV works. I have a 75inch TV, kids use for games or it is used for streaming. An excellent way to consume content, damn I could watch bbc if I wanted to install it. But to have no TV is aside as it is the best way to really enjoy entertainment.
@@flubalubafulyou know you need reception equipment to get an out side signal but the TV has hdmi etc so acts as a monitor when using it like that it's not a TV. If your not using the broadcasts you don't need one.
And @brianwilson49 you could take your own advice... durrrr.... The above commentator took a moral consumer stance and mentioned it in an appropriate forum. You could find another channel rather than ignorantly snipe here
Agree, she is a prime example of the impartiality of the BBC, It is shameful that she is not reigned in on her constant bias towards the Conservatives. Indicative of a corporation that has lost the trust of the public it is supposed to serve.
@@thecaretaker407 When it comes to reporting what is supposed to be the news, it should be objective & factual. So in that regard, they don't say what many people "want them to say". In works of fiction they can "say" whatever they like. Their nature documentaries are high quality for the most part & set the industry standard.
@@thecaretaker407It's as much about the things they don't say and the perspectives they don't cover. Lying by omission is just as effective a way of promoting misinformation than presenting falsehoods.
So happy to know people started to wake up and being conscious where they spend their money on. Paying such a high fee for such a rubbish service. DON'T FUND THE PROPAGANDA. Hope for more cancellations to come.
If anyone in the UK still pays the BBC licence they need to stop immediately. No court in the land can argue that they have long ceased to uphold the charter on which they were founded
As someone not from the U.K it’s well known England is one of the poorest countries in the western world (when excluding the London area) the levels of poverty are staggering for a western country so you can forget all the complaining and comments about current world situations as reason for cancellation of payment of the t.v fees, it’s simple economics = poor people can’t afford to spend money on a service they can easily do without.
The T.V license is too expensive, it's too much for poorer people to pay, especially if you hardly watch bbc, but you have a TV, then you have to pay, it's wrong! They used to put people in prison for not paying which is outrageous! Now it's a fine, which many never pay. In my view all T.V should be free. Bbc could be like ch 4 which is public broadcasting but runs adverts so it's free! Fine with me! We pay £169 a year just to not watch adverts on one channel! The system needs to change for funding the bbc. The current system is outdated. It's a tax on T.V, it's crazy!
That's because it's a TV license it's even in the name and you can't legally turn on your TV without one. A TV is anything this with a receiver in it that picks up any of our TV stations. So go ahead stop paying it but you better not be watching a TV.
@eileencritchley4630 you can turn on your TV, and watch catch up TV, but you can't watch any live TV whether it's bbc or Sky which you also pay for, or even watching live TV on youtube, you need a TV licence! It annoys me that if you pay for Sky or some other provider, even if you don't watch the bbc, if you want to watch live TV, you are forced to have a TV licence, which funds the bbc. So you are forced to fund the bbc, even if you hate the bbc, just because you watch other channels live! So, really, we are paying for the bbc to not have adverts ! This is crazy! The bbc could be funded some other way. Like use the lottery to pay for the bbc, or let them run adverts, like channel 4, which is a public broadcasting company paid by adverts and funding, but it's free to us, but it's not because if we watch it live we have to pay for a licence to fund the bbc!! It's a tax on watching TV and should be dropped! 👍
@@sandrafrancis3631 Not completely correct ok The TV license must be obtain that way if you buy a TV from a shop your name has to be taken down. Reason it has a receive in it to receive the tv stations signals. So if the detect van come's and detects you are using the TV as a TV eg it turned on any TV station not just the BBC but any TV channel you are going to get a fine as you Do Not have a TV License. Period. So many people have been caught out because they've thought your way and 'by 'accident' use their remote and hit the wrong set of buttons or hit the up or down curser. It's not worth the chance. Just pay the dam License.
i think if they had a license in my country i would buy a large monitor and hook a google tv to it. Samsung sells some pretty large smart monitors you can buy. essentially a TV without a tuner.
@@Braddeman I have a monitor I use that I plugg my large screen laptop into. make working at it easier but I still if I watch tv on my huge flat screen TV on the wall. Thing is I hardly ever use it since covid as I watch non english tv from all over the world on youtube instead. subtitles are great and it improves what language I'm trying to learn.
@@AlgolxxxxxxThen they harrass you every month. Also, it becomes illegal to watch any other channel. Even foreign ones online. It is a bizarre law written for a different era.
@@timg1246 More and more people have cancelled their TV licences now. That's the trend. The licencing authority simply don't have the resources to harass people on their doorsteps every month. That in itself would consume a lot of money from their end. They're at this time trying to plug up holes on their boat but then another hole appears and another one... while the boat continues to sink. These people use threats to intimidate us. The threat of intimidation is their tool and this threat is greater than the actual execution of it. They need people to 'believe' in the threat in order for it to work. That's their entire game. Don't fall for the trick. They can't do anything and you don't have to let these goons in to survey your living room. If they do show up at your door you don't have to let them in. Just tell them you don't watch anything BBC or any live broadcasts at all so please don't call here again. Not being able to watch live broadcasts is an inconvenience for us and they know that. It's a pathetic attempt to make life awkward so we feel compelled to pay for a licence. Again, don't fall for their tricks. You'll be glad you cancelled your licence and only regret not cancelling it earlier.
@user-kb2fh7ox5eWhy should I have to contact them at all, let alone every two years ? I walked past Asda the other day. The manager grabbed me and started haranguing me for not shopping there. He promised to do the same in two years time.
I cancelled my tv licence a year ago, and I have been happier since. The mainstream media I don't agree with it's messaging . It does not align with me at all.
When I lived in UK, I never paid the TV license. When they sent their many letters and cards with warnings of courts, I trashed them. They didn't get a penny from me.
I gave up my TV license as soon as I found out that Capita are paid to administer it. I’m disabled and Capita tried to stitch me up in a PIP assessment.
How much money did the BBC earn selling Top Gear around the world, how much money do they earn selling documentaries all around the world, and the magazines, books and dvd's...?
@@stevejh6630 There's only one BBC, and it definitely ain't mine....the point is they have always claimed that we must support them because they have no other means of income
Absolutely disgusting that a person on a TV show which people have to choose to watch is being paid more than the Prime minister of the UK. But there is a cost of living crisis in the UK and we just got rid of the richest prime minister as well the UK is falling apart is disgusting and disappointing
When you get that much money, you really do not know what the value of it is. You see it if you work as a small business and suddenly you work with organizations with "too much money to spare" and lack of strategic talent at the top. You very easily can charge them double, triple, quintuple for the same work and they'll take it. Whereby a small organization would look at the exact same money and think of multiple ways to generate "value". Ideological capture? In group thinking? The exact same philosophy at work that sees a corporation like Activision-Blizzard cut thousands of jobs, axe dozens of profitable projects, and then give a huge bump to executive pay while all workers suffer.
When you are paid large sums of money is it any wonder that they all become small state small tax tories. What do they care about the poor people that may watch their crap programs.
The Gladiators remake was ok (or at least they didn't ruin it), I sometimes watch Match of the Day, there's a few older BBC Three shows I like. But it's definitely not worth the licence fee.
If you don't watch bbc but have a TV you have to pay the licence fee by law. It's a tax on T.V! That's what is wrong about it! We pay the licence to not watch adverts on one channel! The other channels are free because they run adverts, which is fine by me! But if you buy a T.V you a meant to pay the licence fee by law! You can get rid of your T.V and watch all channels online except bbc, because that goes through iplayer, which you're meant to have a licence to watch. When logging on to that, they just ask, do you have a licence, you click yes and you're in. I don't know how they check on that? Can't remember if the first time they ask for your address? But you can watch everything else for free, except on demand, which you pay for of course, but you don't need a licence, just a subscription. All T.V should be free! ✌️
@sandrafrancis3631 That's just factually wrong. You have to pay the licence if you watch BBC , BBC catch up, or Live TV. If you have a TV and don't do any of the above - like the majority of younger people these days - you don't need a licence.
The British establishment is dying slowly. They just won't accept it, hopefully they'll take a more peaceful approach to foreign affairs before things get too dangerous.
TV personalities should earn their money from world wide syndication/ advertising revenue if they're popular enough, not because they're the darling of the BBC.
Anyone know why there arent classic and high quality comedies being produced on the bbc like in the old days? Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The Young Ones, comes to mind. If they produced stuff like that maybe id pay a license fee.
I can't watch anything from the 90s with out horror and guilt for watching children shows and children being exploited and abused by Savile types in the BBC. Top of the pops blue Peter and animal hospital all ruined. I want my 90s TV licence money back.
I stopped watching the TV 15 - 16 years ago and also cancelled my licence not long after, In the 80s and 90s TV was great and worth the licence fee, But unless you're into boring skating on Ice, religiously into love Island or lots of "celebrity" tripe, its pretty much a complete waste of time and money, I can get all the entertainment of the past and of the new, right here on RU-vid
I've not watched the BBC since around 2009 (the last place i rented which had a TV). Since owning my home since 2017, i get an annual letter about my lack of a TV license. I regularly tell them i dont have a TV, but they always send me the most passive aggressive letters saying that they need to check my home.
Me too…… I really don’t like being threatened. Especially when I don’t own a TV. They keep threatening to send someone round. I want to meet whoever they send. I’ll put the kettle on and get my toys out to play.
I cancelled mine when they brought out the "fact checkers" . I should have done it around 12 years ago when I realised BBC World News were at Bilderberg. I only miss Doctors.
Highlighting the salaries of the “talent” is a tired BBC dead-cat meant to distract from the BBC still employing 227 “senior-leaders” with salaries over £100,000, often with obscure titles like Deputy Director of Speech & Controller, Radio 4 & Radio 4 Extra etc. I can’t imagine any FTSE 100 company within less than 20000 employees finding it necessary to employ so many highly paid executives. The BBC STILL has far too many highly paid managers and not enough management, despite being made to disclose their salaries, because of the childish media focus on the so-called “talent”.
No different to the nhs. An ex colleague of mine a Sustainability manager for the nhsis always posting on LinkedIn about the conferences she is attending along with lots of others in the nhs. This must mean the nhs is massively over funded then?
@@user-tt6il2up4o What a stupid Straw Man response (look it up). The NHS has over 1.5 million staff literally dealing with matters of life and death and YOU think they should be defunded because I’ve pointed out that the BBC chooses to continue with a very top-heavy management structure despite past criticism forcing them to reveal their own bloated staff salaries. They still get away with it because of the childish focus on the “talent”instead of the literally hundreds of bosses, deputy bosses, regional deputy-bosses etc - unheard of in private sector media companies.
@@user-tt6il2up4o Yeh no different from the NHS with its 1.5 million staff literally dealing with matters of life and death on a daily basis. Now explain why you think it’s overfunded?
Did you know the BBC is a perfect organisation? Yes, really. I put in a freedom of information request asking how many of the complaints they receive are upheld and they replied saying they are exempt from giving that information. They directed me to their complaints that go to the highest level the stats of which are available on their website. The numbers upheld are absolutely tiny so they are pretty much saying they are perfect!
