Period TV License?

[Flyfisher]

I can understand the sentiment but I think such a scheme would result in a drop of income for the BBC and would start a downward spiral leading to its demise.

Penners' previous post was a good summary of BBC excellence, generally acknowledged throughout the world, and for £3 per week. I understand, and share to some extent, the resistance to being forced to pay a television licence fee to fund the BBC, but when this mechanism is compared with the alternatives I think it stands up pretty well to such scrutiny. It's like the old 'democracy' debate - it might not be a good system but it's the best we have.

I watch little television these days but I don't begrudge my licence fee funding some of the best programming on the planet - especially as long as it continues to fund the unique and incomparable BBC Radio 4.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

t's like the old 'democracy' debate - it might not be a good system but it's the best we have.

I watch little television these days but I don't begrudge my licence fee funding some of the best programming on the planet - especially as long as it continues to fund the unique and incomparable BBC Radio 4.

Agree entirely - it's like the House of Lords, the Monarchy and gravity. You'd never design the world that way now, but they continue to work well. If we undermine the BBC ow, we'll never get it back. A bit like Royal Mail.

There is no compare to R4. I think I read in John Major's memoirs that one of the signs our submarine commanders should look out for that nuclear armageddon has befallen us (and thus they should make for Australia and hand ovr their command to them) was that the Today programme was no longer being broadcast.

I'd pay double the licence fee just for Today and PM.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Ande I'd quite like to have more repeats - there was a time, not so long ago, when afternoon BBC2 was filled with Betjeman and Alec Clifton-Taylor, and films from the 1930s to the 1960s, not cookery programmes...

 

[Moo]

afternoon BBC2 was filled with Betjeman and Alec Clifton-Taylor, and films from the 1930s to the 1960s, not cookery programmes...

So that's how COs spend their afternoons (or do messrs Betjeman and Clifton-Taylor count as research?)

 

[Penners]

it's like the House of Lords, the Monarchy and gravity. You'd never design the world that way now, but they continue to work well.

I'm not absolutely sure that I would change the design of gravity. Without it, how would I stick to my armchair, watching the BBC? And when I poured my gin, it would go all over the place.

 

[LadyArowana]

I'm not absolutely sure that I would change the design of gravity. Without it, how would I stick to my armchair, watching the BBC? And when I poured my gin, it would go all over the place.

Velcro Trousers? Just for you Mr P I remembered not to call them pants :lol: