05-12-2023, 07:05 AM
So if the BBC is in such a dire financial situation, then what the heck is it doing with £3.5+Billion it gets from the TVL, plus the additional £1.5billion from commercial activities?
The TV Licence is an anachronistic, regressive (and increasingly unenforceable) yearly charge that has no place in this multiple choice streaming era we are now in. Especially when even the BBC itself seems to promote what's on iPlayer more than its traditional linear channels. It may have been a viable way of funding the BBC when we only had a handful of channels to choose from, and most homes had just one television set that was a big heavy chunky appliance installed in the corner of the living room. A time when the BBC ran TV Licensing, not outsourced to a third party like Capita, the enforcement officers were exactly that, and not glorified door-to-door salespeople.
I don't want the BBC to no longer exist, but the TV Licence fee needs to go away and the BBC needs to find a different method of funding before the Charter renewal in 2027.
The TV Licence is an anachronistic, regressive (and increasingly unenforceable) yearly charge that has no place in this multiple choice streaming era we are now in. Especially when even the BBC itself seems to promote what's on iPlayer more than its traditional linear channels. It may have been a viable way of funding the BBC when we only had a handful of channels to choose from, and most homes had just one television set that was a big heavy chunky appliance installed in the corner of the living room. A time when the BBC ran TV Licensing, not outsourced to a third party like Capita, the enforcement officers were exactly that, and not glorified door-to-door salespeople.
I don't want the BBC to no longer exist, but the TV Licence fee needs to go away and the BBC needs to find a different method of funding before the Charter renewal in 2027.