[ViridianFan]

The BBC isn't fit for purpose now. It should be completely defunded and run as a commercial archive repeats channel on Freeview. It does nothing well any more: breaking news, sport, drama, entertainment, the few live events it still has rights to - it's pretty clear that the consensus on here is that it is little more than a third-rate broadcaster.

I’d agree to a degree that the BBC news feels a shadow of its former self.  The new merged channel isn’t really satisfying any audiences expectations at the moment and I don’t think that’s the fault of anyone working on the newsroom floor who have had to deal with the outcome of massive cuts, reapply for their jobs and had to see colleagues leave. From outside it does look like lots of things haven’t been thought through properly and are slow to be addressed. It feels at the moment as its a temporary pop up news service. 

I couldnt disagree more strongly with. No one can touch them on live events. Look at the jubilee, funeral and coronation. Every time they step up to the plate. There have been some excellent dramas. Programmes like ghosts, where’s a family can sit together and watch. I will admit Saturday nights haven’t got that sparkle for me anymore but that made me rose tinted glasses of big break, generation game, house party and the lottery. That’s before you even think about bite size (a god send for a teacher), radio, the childrens department. 

carving up and selling the BBC would be another act of self harm wed would be doing to ourselves as a country. It is entwined in us. I’ve posted before that one of my biggest worries is when anyone thinks of the BBC they immediately think BBC news and forget all the amazing things it actually does do