[interestednovice]

The problem has now become that I don't think they're even providing anything 'special' now in return for the TVL. Watering things down to the extent that they become a poor imitation isn't providing anything.

Alternatives to everything they offer are now available on free catch-up services from elsewhere, which don't require a TVL. Their revenue is going to shrink as it is, so this sort of activity will simply speed up that process.

BBC News needs to just be the commercially funded global version, with national bulletins as we had in the past. The other TV channels need to be slashed to just one or two. I know it sounds drastic, but I think this is where we are now.

Yes, I actually agree with you Stuart.

Personally, I am a great supporter of the idea of the BBC and would happily pay the LF to fund it.

But I now feel that we are not getting good value for money back. If the sort of output that we get is quite “commercial” anyway, then we might as well scrap the LF and just have adverts for free.

Even the BBC News (Global Feed) service gets more news than we do. It is as though the BBC take the British LF-payers for fools.