Re: FN-FORUM: TV Licence

date posted 16th September 2005 22:32

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:10:44PM -0000, Tom wrote:
>
> You think that commercial television is the way to quality broadcasting?
> The programmes on commercial television are there to fill the time up
> between adverts. I note with alarm that some cable/freeview/satellite
> channels are now having two ad breaks in a half-hour programme, it's
> enough to drive me crazy.
> The BBC is still the best television provider in the world, and the only
> way we can avoid american style television is if we continue to fund it
> in this way.
> I have absolutely no worries about paying such a meagre amount of money
> to keep a worthy service like this running.

I quite agree, the thing that will kill the licence fee is if the BBC does
what everyone thinks it should: be completely independent and as a result
on some occasion get up the government's nose -- this is what happened after
the Iraq war that Blair lied to get parliament's agreement.

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