The Bbc And Why It Should Be Commercialised

[ShinySideUp]

I could have coped with their [the BBC] cockups over Jimmy Savile, Lord McAlpine, and various other messes over the last few weeks but this next one takes the biscuit.

There I am watching the Moto2 race on the Red Button (channel 301), Mark Marquez has started from last position on the grid, he fights his way back to second place and there are four laps to go, he is less than one second behind Simon and just about to take the lead...

...and up comes a message "coverage continues online due to Remberance day parade" !! And that's it; picture goes and there follows a minute of nothing, three trails for other BBC programmes then cuts to the very same pictures they are showing on BBC1!

Don't get me wrong, I'm a real patriot and love and respect the Rememberance day and what it represents and I give a substantial amount to the appeal. That doesn't stop me getting very miffed over the condescending attitude the BBC have to it's viewing public.

It wouldn't be so bad if they had warned it was going off but it just went and by the time I'd got the PC out and had it boot up, Marquez was past and there was just half a lap to go.

We already have advertising on the BBC, they constantly promote their own programmes on both TV and radio so we might as well get rid of the unfair 'tax' that is the licence and have the BBC start to complete with the commercial companies. They need a right kick up the #14###.


Rant over.

Apologies for the lower case Bbc in the title.

 

[fluttermoth]

Didn't ITV go to adverts and miss an important goal in a football match a few years ago though? I don't think it's problem just with the BBC.

I'm more than happy to pay for a TV license (which works out at something like £3 a week) and get quality programmes with no ad breaks, personally.

 

[raptorrex]

Didn't ITV go to adverts and miss an important goal in a football match a few years ago though? I don't think it's problem just with the BBC.

I'm more than happy to pay for a TV license (which works out at something like £3 a week) and get quality programmes with no ad breaks, personally.

the thought of ending up with TV like those in the US, and other countries, suffer.
Make the BBC fee a snip.

There would be no FREEVIEW or FREESAT if it were not for the beeb.

And, until recently (and that’s only because they picked up productions beeb and ITV had dropped) the quality of SLY home based broadcasting was so poor as to be funny.

If you look at news.
Anybody who has watched (the laughable)F?X or RT news, will realise just how good a job the beeb do.

This is not to say the beeb does not need a shake up, that’s long overdue.
Privatising the beeb would only destroy an organ that is widely considered (overall) the best in the world.

Its most ardent detractors are jealous and, simply, want a slice of the pie, for themselves.
thing is, the pie will go rotten, if they get their way.

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I'm Canadian and live in England... the tv license is the most baffling thing to me ever! Its not like that money is spread equally... it goes to the BBC. If I decided I would never watch anything remotely connected to the BBC again... I'd still have to pay, I think that is preposterous.

 

[garyspence84]

^^^^^Yep, I 2nd that ^^^^

I think you should have the choice weather or not you want the Bbc channels or not, and if you do, then pay the fee.

But its the BBC that run this contry, not the royal family and certainly not our government.

So if they say pay the fee, you better pay the fee or go straight to jail, do not pass go........ or worse, they make you spend loads of time with their next batch of Jimmy Savils!

 

[PrairieSunflower]

Why not make it another package of channels to subscribe to just like any other package you'd get when you subscribe to Sky, Virgin, BT or anyone else? Makes a lot more sense.

 

[Squidward]

I think the BBC has really gone downhill with their programes recently.

A few weeks ago I put on what I thought was a new series of Top Gear....nope a re-run
Mock The Week - another re-run
The F1 GP....an hours highlights package of which half is idle chit chat and analysis of a race they are barely showing any of.

Good thing I have Sky. The only thing I watch on the BBC anymore is Match of the Day. And if my team's match is shown on Sky, I don't even bother with that

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I only watch Doctor Who or Sherlock... neither of which are on during most of the year!

 

[garyspence84]

Ah match of the day, the only thing worth watching on the beeb. I used to watch sportscene too (Scottish football) but its a pile of absolute trump. They actually tell you who won before the show the highlights! I deliberately don't find out scores so I can watch MOTD and root for teams.