BBC

[pez]

Maybe I'm really stupid, but could someone please explain to me who is paying for the BBC website which the whole world can use - is it the funded by the TV licence fees?

And now they're putting stuff on YouTube?

So why the heck should I pay for the TV licence?

[edit] Dude, licence fee goes to their radio stations too. I HATE RADIO. I NEVER LISTEN TO IT. PUT ADVERTS ON THE RADIO AND STOP CHARGING ME. jkasdasfhksalfhjkas Or set up a separate frigging radio licence or whatever.

Comments

[fic-faery.livejournal.com]

Well for the news reports, many private newspapers etc have articles on the web now, and actually BBC world is one of the most aired and popular new shows in the world. The BBC makes quite a nice profit by selling rights to news clips, tv shows and dvd sales around the globe. (not that that would appease you very much I'm sure lol)

I think I'm too laid back and brainwashed by that class to get all grr about things, but I defintely understand the otherside of the argument and I think the whole dismantling of tvs is a bit far, and I can't believe you have to pay a fee for each tv in the house. I think a standard fee per house wouldn't be as bad, or like so much percent of gov't funding would go to BBC. But then you still have people complain. lol it reminds me of the CBC, barely anyone watches it except for hockey a few other hit shows, mainly comedy, but when they government did polls to see if Canadians were willing to dismantle the cbc tv they were all up in arms about it because it's part of being Canadian and growing up or something like that. I was amused that you can never make people happy.

I think a better example is buses. You don't know how often I hear people complaining about that, especially in Ottawa right now since we have a big kerfuffle involving light rail transit costing millions. People with cars and who never use public transport wonder why so much of their taxes go for the operating costs.

And I really shouldn't comment about anything half intellectual when I first get up, so I apologize for typos and if anything sounds rude or weird at all.

[solaas.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if this link will for from outside Norway, but I hope so. This is an ad that the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) used to send every year when I was a kid, to remind people to pay the tv licence. I was reminded of it by the talk here about dismantling tellies and so on. I believe it won a prize in Montreaux back in the 70s. :)

A TV detective in Norway!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

.................OMG XDDDDD

I've only seen one or two here, one of them features the guy playing a videotape of a chicken spinning in the microwave oven, so that the TV looked like a microwave oven, to try to escape from licencing officers....

[solaas.livejournal.com]

XDDD I think I've seen that one! It does at the very least ring a bell.