Seriously thinking of ditching the TV ?

[numbnuts]

I hope you like threatening letters from the BBC, I'm still getting them and not had a TV for 12 years !!!

 

[Drago]

I hope you like threatening letters from the BBC, I'm still getting them and not had a TV for 12 years !!!

Aye, get the threat-O-grams as well. They cant need my licence fee that badly if they can afford to keep sending them out.

 

[albion]

The loss of ITV shows that more UK production protection will likely be needed, not less.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Go for it @johnnyb47.
Beware though: I haven't had a TV for more than 20 years, still the TV license people send me threatening letters
Even if you fill the correct form online stating that you do not watch the BBC, after a few years they don't believe you anymore.
Sometime back, I tried to fill the form again, but it wouldn't let me.
Just ignore the threats

 

[johnnyb47]

Thanks Pat for the advice.
I'm surprised the TV licence Gestapo have not come into the spot light for there bullying/threatening behaviour that's been happening over the years.

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

I think that the TV industry is better off with a strong BBC setting high standards that embarrass other channels.

Sadly I now regard the BBC as a social media channel with a bit of news added so that they can pretend not to be and worse the standards have now been so low for so long they don't even realise how low they have sunk.

For example the number of programs such as the 9am Sunday politics show which are dominated by broadcasters and journalists talking to each seems be growing and I suspect that this has become part of an accepted lowing of standards. Or the documentaries, slow speech, long pauses with music and then a repeat of what was just said.

GB News shows just how much further downhill things can go, so we need a Good BBC, but that means a new management structure, one where those at top care and have higher standards.

Bye

Ian

 

[albion]

I stopped watching the BBC for politics when all the 'plain fact' focussed journalists left.
Now you get an hour of dribble to say what could be said in 30 seconds.

Talking of dribble, ITV New Youtube has a 30 minute dribble feature on air fryer fires.
Their punch line is 'clean it'.

 

[Drago]

...the TV industry is better off with a strong BBC setting high standards that embarrass other channels.

Its a shame that isnt where we're at in 2025, hence 300,000 households ditching the licence year on year.

GB news is dire, makes the Mail look authoritative and the Guardian look unbiased.

However, the good news there is that, unlike the Beeb, households aren't held to ransom and forced to pay for GB News before they can access any other broadcast tv.

 

[Homers Double]

TLDR but is this actually about the TV?

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good afternoon,

I stopped watching the BBC for politics when all the 'plain fact' focussed journalists left.
Now you get an hour of dribble to say what could be said in 30 seconds.

Talking of dribble, ITV New Youtube has a 30 minute dribble feature on air fryer fires.
Their punch line is 'clean it'.

I think that I recorded that program off Freeview because it had a title that made me think that it would be worth watching as it had some new and significant information.

Okay I was an Idiot and that was me caught, but as I recorded it I could skip over all the lead up adverts and didn’t last until the 1st advert break.

Surely once you have gone to the effort of making a program, it doesn’t require much more effort to make a decent one? Even if you have nothin’ new to say, after all washing powder adverts have been doing this for 40 plus years

Bye

Ian

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good afternoon,

TLDR but is this actually about the TV?

I think that it is.

I remember reading a review of the Next Station in the early 1990s and thinking what’s the point? This was probably the first computer that had an internet browser.

Sadly instead of becoming a source of truth the internet has become a minefield of untruths and the amount of work needed to find reliable information that is not provided by a TV broadcaster is so great that most of the time I can’t be bothered.

Newspapers have long given up on news.

Russia Today, a political channel from Russia, was sometimes informative as long as you accepted where it was coming from.

A few years back a “personality” was valuing his company that rented office space in the billions. It was packaged as a new way to work, with pool tables, free coffee and networking zones.

Russia Today was the only channel that asked the obvious questions. Isn’t it just an office block?

Without TV is is so very easy to only read what you want to read and exclude everything else.

Most of us who are old will remember ; there will be no oil by the year 2000 or the Earth is entering another ice age, or Global Warming will be irrevocable by 2010.

Good TV can bring current thinking to everyone.

One of the attractions of the Internet as a news source is that you can only read what you want to read, avoiding the truth.

Bye

Ian

 

[FishFright]

Good afternoon,

I think that it is.

I remember reading a review of the Next Station in the early 1990s and thinking what’s the point? This was probably the first computer that had an internet browser.

Sadly instead of becoming a source of truth the internet has become a minefield of untruths and the amount of work needed to find reliable information that is not provided by a TV broadcaster is so great that most of the time I can’t be bothered.

Newspapers have long given up on news.

Russia Today, a political channel from Russia, was sometimes informative as long as you accepted where it was coming from.

A few years back a “personality” was valuing his company that rented office space in the billions. It was packaged as a new way to work, with pool tables, free coffee and networking zones.

Russia Today was the only channel that asked the obvious questions. Isn’t it just an office block?

Without TV is is so very easy to only read what you want to read and exclude everything else.

Most of us who are old will remember ; there will be no oil by the year 2000 or the Earth is entering another ice age, or Global Warming will be irrevocable by 2010.

Good TV can bring current thinking to everyone.

One of the attractions of the Internet as a news source is that you can only read what you want to read, avoiding the truth.

Bye

Ian

They were correct about global warming . All we can hope for is the next set of predictions are wrong but the world is , on average , doing the square root of nothing so pray for your grandkids kids ( if praying is your thing )

 

[presta]

I think that the TV industry is better off with a strong BBC setting high standards that embarrass other channels.

Sadly I now regard the BBC as a social media channel with a bit of news added so that they can pretend not to be and worse the standards have now been so low for so long they don't even realise how low they have sunk.

I think they've been dumbing down for years because they're scared that the licence will get stopped if they don't, and because that's what an audience that doesn't appreciate the value of a reliable unbiased broadcaster wants. The respect and trust the world has for the BBC World Service says more about the BBC than anything the Daily Mail etc have to say.

Talking of dribble, ITV New Youtube has a 30 minute dribble feature on air fryer fires.
Their punch line is 'clean it'.

What struck me was that I doubt cleaning the pan does much to stop any grunge blown into the works above from catching fire, and that's not so easily cleaned.

 

[albion]

Dumbing down is an understatement.
Ian nailed/explained it. I got through it in about 7 minutes, hoping to find something informative. It never happened.
I wrongly thought they had banished it to Youtube only, it being so gross.

 

[Drago]

I think they've been dumbing down for years because they're scared that the licence will get stopped if they don't, and because that's what an audience that doesn't appreciate the value of a reliable unbiased broadcaster wants.

Its a shame the Beeb themselves seem not to appreciate the value of a reliable unbiased broadcaster, as today's events once again bear out.

Make it a subscription service and then anyone who likes their version of unbiased can enjoy it without expecting everyone else to subsidise it.