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[MIGNAL]

I'd gladly pay the licence fee for the Radio stations and the beeb website alone! and I'm skint. Plenty of folk blow that amount (and much, much more) on the forlorn hope of the lottery. Crazy 'bit of fun' if you ask me. Makes the licence fee seem an absolute bargain.
Mostly they can keep the TV, I watch little anyway but some programmes are certainly worth watching.

 

[doorframe]

Yes, get rid of rubbish stuff like BBC 2, 3 & 4, Radio 3,4. Then we can all enjoy much more X factor and big brother.

It's ok, I know you're only joshing.

BBC4 is excellent. Very late night music progs are great. Record and watch at another time.

 

[DiscoStu]

I think the BBC does do some things brilliantly well and they are possibly programmes that no other channel would make. Things like coverage of the Remembrance service and events such as New Year eve fireworks. They also make programmes such as "documentaries" about the Lancaster etc that I doubt anyone else would make. I also think their wildlife filming is brilliant although I'm not a wildlife programme person I can appreciate the quality of the production. I also think they produce some good drama.

I am with Mignal though, I use the BBC website and radio stations far more than anything else.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The BBC forgot long ago that it is not its main purpose to sell itself to the pondlife.

 

[whiskywill]

The trouble is that even the documentaries are made boring by stretching out an idea that could have been presented succinctly in 10 minutes into a 1 hour epic.

I recently watched Walking through history on More 4, I think. It began with Tony Robinson telling us that his journey was going to be to A, B, D, E, F, G, H etc.

At the end of the first part he said "Today we have been to A, B and C. Tomorrow we are going to D, E and F". During the programme it was "I am now leaving A and am heading for B". At the beginning of the second part he said "Yesterday we went to A, B and C and today we are going to D, E and F" At the end of the second part..........

This continued throughout the whole programme. I still have a sore throat caused by shouting "I know!" at the television.

 

[mailee]

I have to admit that that is one of the reasons I don't subscribe to any of the Tv channels as there is so much rubbish on them. I can't even understand why we need things like the Tivo box to record programmes as they repeat them every couple of days on each of the channels. As for the BBC and the TV licence it is one of the better channels but only occasionally do they broadcast any decent programmes. But considering how much we pay for this service and the service we get they should be paying us to watch it! Take Christmas for example, just how many of the programmes were repeats? most of them! I may write a letter to the BBC and notify them I shall repeat my TV licence this year! :evil:

 

[petermillard]

TiVo boxes and the like let you watch the programs that interest you at *your* convenience, rather than the convenience of the broadcaster; they also let you 'sample' a series without a major time commitment - we record all manner of shows that look interesting, but if they aren't immediately engaging then they're abandoned, we move on. And just what constitutes a 'decent' program? I suspect that everyone has a different opinion but, like obscenity, we know it when see it even if we disagree wildly about what *exactly* it is!

In trying to satisfy as broad a population as Britain, I think it's inevitable that a chunk of the BBC's programming won't be of interest to me, but I'm happy to pay the license fee as it's extremely good value - on par with what we pay for just two channels of BT Sport and a fraction of what we pay for Sky. Of course, if you don't feel it's good value, then you have the choice not to pay - or to pay, but not to watch the shows that don't interest you.

Got to go - there's a new episode of 'My cousin slept with my wife's sister in a storage locker down the scrapyard' on... :shock:

Pete

 

[DiscoStu]

Whiskywill - on a similar note I find programmes that tell you what is coming up after the break and then after the ads you get the "before the break" I'd like to think I can remember what happened 3 minutes ago and if the programme hasn't been good enough in the first part to entertain me, then telling me what is coming up after the break isn't going to retain me.

It's just a way of making programmes cheaper as far as I can tell. Keep using the same footage. I used to really like scrapheap challenge and they were terrible for it.

 

[bugbear]

I used to really like scrapheap challenge and they were terrible for it.

Worst part was that in the intro they'd show you some of the the end-of-ep testing !!

BugBear

 

[n0legs]

scrapheap challenge .

YESSSS !!!

Let's get a campaign going to get it back =D> =D> :lol:

 

[Eric The Viking]

Noooo!

I don't want it back. I just want access to some of their scrapheaps!

 

[whiskywill]

Whiskywill - on a similar note I find programmes that tell you what is coming up after the break and then after the ads you get the "before the break" I'd like to think I can remember what happened 3 minutes ago and if the programme hasn't been good enough in the first part to entertain me, then telling me what is coming up after the break isn't going to retain me.

It's just a way of making programmes cheaper as far as I can tell. Keep using the same footage. I used to really like scrapheap challenge and they were terrible for it.

Have you noticed that this has even crept into news programmes? They sometimes say "coming up" etc. before reading a completely unrelated bit of news.

 

[graduate_owner]

You are right about the News, Whiskywil - they tell you a series of brief facts to whet your appetites, without giving you any details so you have to watch all the news to find out what it actually was that' 'coming up later in the programme'. A bit like supermarkets that cleverly spread all the essentials around so you have to 'shop the whole shop'. But then I don't pay a license fee to enter a supermarket (well, apart from my car license that is). And on that subject - I changed the car last summer for a Renault Megane diesel. It is nippy, roomy, comfortable, does 57mpg and costs £30 a year road tax. I think that is pretty good. Now, I have hijacked my own thread.

Back to TV - we stopped paying out to Sky about 3 years ago (although I do love the Sky organisation dearly !!!) and bought a set top box (Humax). Slightly different mix of available channels but a totally free system once the box is bought, and I would never go back to Sky, especially paying extra for the Sky Movies channel which repeated filme over and over again for the whole month.

K

 

[bugbear]

Back to TV - we stopped paying out to Sky about 3 years ago (although I do love the Sky organisation dearly !!!) and bought a set top box (Humax).

Freesat or freeview?

BugBear

 

[graduate_owner]

It's a freesat box. It uses the same satellite dish leads and connectors as the Sky box, just swap them over to the Humax and wait for the Humax to find it's channels. It will search automatically and store the available channel details in it's EPROM (sounds complicated but it does it all by itself) and you can select and watch. It does not improve the quality of the prodrammes being transmitted unfortunately - they are mostly as rubbishy as Sky.

K