Guest RockyRoad Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 From this second until midnight, everything on BBC One tonight except the news and the lottery draw, will be a repeat. And even if you go out instead, everything from midnight to 4.50am when they switch to the rolling news, is also a repeat. This is supposed to be the flagship channel of the national broadcaster for fuck's sake. Total piss-takers, pure and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14117 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I'd pay the licence fee for BBC FOUR alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38982 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Not a single repeat on BBC2. Yin and Yang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Richard Kimble 0 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 The BBC is going down hill. But evem though it's compulsory it's still better than Sky where you pay subscription AND there are hours of commercials every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 If the licence fee was optional, i.e. the same price annually to add the BBC channels onto your Sky, I wouldn't pay it. The only BBC channel I watch is BBC3 and even then it's only to watch Family Guy repeats (the new episodes are dump). I can't abide by BBC1. It tries to be ITV, i.e. wall to wall reality TV such as that extremely shit 'Strictly' programme, shit soaps, and wank period dramas. Moronic television for the proleteriat. No thanks BBC. The BBC website has gone massively downhill too. Form over function and completely biased news and sport coverage. Even the weather forecasting is shite because of where it sources it's forecasts from. And the radio stations - The other day I started on Radio 2 (Radio 1 doesn't even get a look in - inane babble and apocalyptically shit 'music') and they started plugging that fucking 'Strictly' dog shit! My finger hit the dial at about 1000 Mph and Radio 4 came on. This stayed on until it became painfully obvious that any political debate had an agenda and the presenters were only interested in forcing the debatees into saying what they wanted to hear. So even R4 has been infected by the BBCs Socialist manifesto. Needless to say, the Radio went off (local radio is just adverts) and I enjoyed the silence. I'm actually debating just not paying my licence fee... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12825 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 How quick we forget the Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35102 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Aye. The Olympics was worth 2 years of licence fees all by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 The BBC licence fee is simply a fee payable from the start of television, of which the BBC had the monopoly of. It's been kept as a fee because it's just a taxation of your leisure. All in all, it's a legal rip off which gives a person no rights to view a TV set unless they pay the fee, regardless of if they didn't watch any BBC channels. We pay for cable TV or sky TV on a monthly subscription, yet still have to pay a licence fee...it's a bullying tactic and a 100% compulsory con job. Most TV we watch have adverts and so could the BBC, which would do away with licence fees but it's too much of a cash cow for them to consider this. At the end of the day, it's a TV licence, yet if you fail to pay on time, you are taken to court and actually told, this is a SERIOUS offence, (I kid you not)...now what does that tell you? Your leisure time in viewing is at a massive cost. People should be allowed the choice whether to watch BBC or have their channels scrambled like they do with other channels, which means you can't watch it and so, you don't pay the fee...(fat chance) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Leisure activities taxed shocka!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Aye. The Olympics was worth 2 years of licence fees all by itself. Pretty sure the Olympics cost a lot more than 2 years of licence fee money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17926 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Love it when people get all worked about being forced to pay 30 pence a day for what to me is undoubtedly the best media outlet in the world. It's outstanding value for money and what's more drags the quality of other channels like C4 up with it. I mean, who in their right minds wants a system like the US where there are adverts every 5 minutes (literally) and the news networks are exponentially more partisan (due to blatant vested interests) than they are here? Ahh yes, the usual right wingers and the terminally ignorant. Suck it up boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 To be honest, as the good Doctor Kimble says, the price of sky is very high when you consider the ad breaks they have which are a few minutes longer than the terrestrial breaks. The BBC is better value for me, because for all they shite they have on I don't think sky is much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Love it when people get all worked about being forced to pay 30 pence a day for what to me is undoubtedly the best media outlet in the world. It's outstanding value for money and what's more drags the quality of other channels like C4 up with it. I mean, who in their right minds wants a system like the US where there are adverts every 5 minutes (literally) and the news networks are exponentially more partisan (due to blatant vested interests) than they are here? Ahh yes, the usual right wingers and the terminally ignorant. Suck it up boys. The problem is, the BBC isn't even worth 30p a day. It's shite. And you would think it's unbiased, because you're a fucking commie prick who probably thinks that the PLO and IRA are amazing folk whilst anyone who has ever worked is a fat cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17926 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 If it costs 30p a day for the privelage of not having adverts or biased news getting in the way of wall to wall repeats on a Friday night, how much more do we have to pay to get some original content instead? At the end of the day, through all the smugness of that post, ultimately you're either the sort of dickhead who's happy to be paying 30p a day to not watch BBC One, or you're the sort of dickhead who's happy to pay 30p a day to watch shit you've already seen. And you call us ignorant? Actually I had you under the right wing bracket. It's hilarious both you and Cabayaye don't get on as your virtually identical twins with equally right wing views and sociopathic tendencies. Neither of you have a clue about me either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 They're at least 5 mins when you put in sky's adverts for their own programmes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 You pay a lot of money for 5mins ads every ten to fifteen minutes. That's quite shit if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17926 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 BBC is a works leader in documentaries. Hopefully were due a good series soon. Lose the BBC and that's gone forever. I can see how some people wouldn't be bothered by that mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleeToonFan 1 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Worst thing about the BBC is when they have gameshows. Because it comes out of license fees you usually end up with an 'amazing' 723 pound prize or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Again, are you sure about that? As far as I can tell, there's just as many breaks on Sky per hour as there is on ITV/C4. AFAIK, they're both governed by the same rules, Ofcom makes no distinction between what Sky can do compared to commercial terrestrial. I timed it once out of interest. The BBC is better value for the money, but again, that's just my opinion and the BBC certainly has no monopoly on repeats either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Worst thing about the BBC is when they have gameshows. Because it comes out of license fees you usually end up with an 'amazing' 723 pound prize or something Unless your a contestant does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleeToonFan 1 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Unless your a contestant does it matter? Yeah, the contestants give so little a hit that it makes crap viewing. Some of the winners must make less than if they'd have stayed on their job for the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27312 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Yeah, the contestants give so little a hit that it makes crap viewing. Some of the winners must make less than if they'd have stayed on their job for the day You have to be a bit of a funny fucka* to want to go on one these shows anyway imo. Especially where the prizes are shit. *Didn't Stevie once go on a TV show quiz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16902 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Do you have Sky Rocky? I bet you dont moan about spending £80 on repeats do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleeToonFan 1 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Please tell me you're not making up Stevie going on a tv quiz . I presume he didn't win or we'd never have heard the end of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 I think some people are not understanding the rip off when they say the BBC is better value for money. The fact of the matter is...whoever pays for sky or virgin, also pay the licence fee for a few channels. We are paying twice. Someone said, 'what's 30 p a day'...actually it's 40 p a day which is £2.80 a week or £11.20 a month. You should really have the option of not having BBC at the very least and I for one would willingly do without it...but the point is, we have no choice because even having receiving equipment , and a TV, you still pay the licence. If you have sky cut off, you don't get charged for having your dish up and a TV do you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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