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Post by gw on Jan 18, 2007 21:33:07 GMT -1
£135, what the feck do we get for that?
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Post by weallloveleeds on Jan 18, 2007 21:35:29 GMT -1
...I'm glad I don't pay it *yet*, or I'd be pretty pissed off!
Not value for money at all.
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Post by Imp on Jan 18, 2007 21:38:36 GMT -1
Oh for heaven's sake, it costs about £10 a month, the news coverage is very good, the website is even better, the quality of the programming has really improved (did you not see Planet Earth?), when you actually PAY the license fee, come back and gripe. Until then, go watch Trouble, or whatever you young whippersnappers do. Grrrrr  |
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Post by gw on Jan 18, 2007 21:45:59 GMT -1
Theres only a few good shows on the beeb, such as top gear and neighbours  why they keep depressing us with things like Eastenders, god knows  Trouble  Nickelodean all the way   |
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Post by weallloveleeds on Jan 18, 2007 21:46:54 GMT -1
Oh for heaven's sake, it costs about £10 a month, the news coverage is very good, the website is even better, the quality of the programming has really improved (did you not see Planet Earth?), when you actually PAY the license fee, come back and gripe. Until then, go watch Trouble, or whatever you young whippersnappers do. Grrrrr £10's a lot of money for us poor students! The website is good, but I'm quite cynical about the political angle the BBC has with all of its news articles, and the fact that it is biased towards the South and London in particular. Planet earth does look good, but the BBC has a duty to provide programmes for all age groups, not just adults and young children- I can't remember the last programme I even considered watching on BBC 1 or 2. |
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Post by miz on Jan 18, 2007 21:47:44 GMT -1
Oh for heaven's sake, it costs about £10 a month, the news coverage is very good, the website is even better, the quality of the programming has really improved (did you not see Planet Earth?), when you actually PAY the license fee, come back and gripe. Until then, go watch Trouble, or whatever you young whippersnappers do. Grrrrr and the fact that it is biased towards the South and London in particular. Rightly so. We are more important than you northerners |
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Post by Imp on Jan 18, 2007 21:53:30 GMT -1
Oh for heaven's sake, it costs about £10 a month, the news coverage is very good, the website is even better, the quality of the programming has really improved (did you not see Planet Earth?), when you actually PAY the license fee, come back and gripe. Until then, go watch Trouble, or whatever you young whippersnappers do. Grrrrr £10's a lot of money for us poor students! The website is good, but I'm quite cynical about the political angle the BBC has with all of its news articles, and the fact that it is biased towards the South and London in particular. Planet earth does look good, but the BBC has a duty to provide programmes for all age groups, not just adults and young children- I can't remember the last programme I even considered watching on BBC 1 or 2. £10 is a lot of money for us poor teachers living in London too! It DOES provide stuff for all ages! Seriously, you tell me an age group it doesn't cater for, you'd struggle... But with the improvements it's made to its website, I'm well up-to-date with what's going on in sunny Lincolnshire. The bias is just what non-license paying advocates want you to believe. We haven't watched ITV for about 4 months (unless it's been for Champions League football) and when we watch other channels, it's for BBC repeats |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jan 19, 2007 8:30:28 GMT -1
What I object to is the fact that you pay the licence for owning a TV, regardless of what you do with it, yet the BBC gets the money.
The BBC should be a subscription-based channel now, like Sky etc - it doesn't operate the way it used to any more. It'd be fairer for people who don't actually watch BBC, such as myself - I use my TV for DVDs and game consoles, and occasionally watch E4 (Deal or no Deal) or Sky One (Simpsons, Futurama, Malcolm in the Middle). Football aside (which I can go to the pub for), I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to watch anything on any BBC channels (and I'm thinking back several years here).
Also, I have to pay NTL to get BBC through their services, as well as paying the licence fee - why should we have to pay twice?
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Post by Remember Jesus on Jan 19, 2007 8:37:24 GMT -1
Watch any of the UK channels on SKY/Cable and they all have adverts.
Lot of the programmes are BBC ones. Two faced bunch of hypocrites!
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Post by The Lucky C on Jan 19, 2007 9:45:38 GMT -1
I can't remember the last programme I even considered watching on BBC 1 or 2. Match Of The Day? Have I Got News For You? Never Mind The Buzzcocks? BBC News? Mock The Week? Doctor Who? Any of the high-quality dramas they put on? Film 2007? Whilst there is a lot of shite on the BBC, it's no worse than any other channel, and in a lot of cases a hell of a lot better. I have no objection with paying a little more than £10 a month for these. It's not a great deal, and I'd rather that than have more adverts interrupting shows. |
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why they keep depressing us with things like Eastenders, god knows 
Nickelodean all the way 
