PaulSB
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I truly don't believe that's true in every case. I happily accept there are those who don't use any BBC services but feel they're a very small minority.
I would favour a Pay Wall.
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I would favour a Pay Wall.
I can that coming for the Iplayer.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Problem with that - which by the way I think is the right way to go - is that a lot of people who pay the License Fee
would refuse to pay for the Pay Wall
and hence the actual price would end up being higher than the current license
which would generate headlines for the Media about how the BBC are ripping off Britain"
or some such
But I think it needs to be done in some way at some point
I would not like to be the politician that makes it happen!!
numbnuts
Squire
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- Gone over the hill and far away
What's a radio ?
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Morning
It's not a claim; it's a fact.
We haven't had a television for over 25 years and only listen to Classic FM.
If you look in that dark corner of your living room you will see a box with a handle. If you wind that handle you will hear a crackly voice saying "this is radio Luxembourg "..... that is a radio.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I'm speaking generally. I find it vert hard to believe 13% of the population never use BBC services. I wouldn't point a finger.
In my view clicking a link to a BBC news story on the BBC website is using a BBC service.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Not in my gaff, I bought a new one 2 or 3 years ago as part of a survival package
if there was a war, I tried it, yes it worked and that is the last time I use a radio.
The one in the car I have never used.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
If I see anything with the "BBC" on it I don't click on it.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
We have a wind up solar power radio. It lives in our pavilion on the allotment. Once the solar power battery runs down, we wind it up via a handle.
It receives digital and analogue.......come the apocalypse we're OK!!!!!!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Here: we don't listen to BBC radio at all, not even in the car. Haven't done for years. We do listen to a wide array of commercial channels, though.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- The Urban Fringe
The few people I personally know - including me - who boycott the TV licence genuinely dont watch live tv or the player.
After all, it was crap enough that I didn't want to pay to watch it so,how would being free make it any more palatable?
Im a radio fiend, watch very little on screen but the wireless is on from the moment I arise until I walk up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
What little on screen I watch is almost all Paramount+ with a little ITV and U player. Mrs D prefers Prime and Mini D has Disney+. We dont mind paying for stuff we're actually likely to watch, and as we were disinclined to watch the BBC we stopped paying for it.
No politics, no statement of ideology, we were simply not using it so binned it off the same way me might an old magazine sub or gym membership.
