TV license, BBC lose 1.1 Billion.

[Beebo]

Then they should have no problems getting people who want to watch them to pay for them rather than charging everybody else that doesn't even want to watch their channels.

I don’t think a subscription model would ever work for a national broadcaster of lineal TV.
It has to be paid from general taxation, if the consensus is that the licence fee is now defunct.

 

[Psamathe]

I don’t think a subscription model would ever work for a national broadcaster of lineal TV.

The big question becomes "why"?

If eg not enough people would subscribe then maybe that means it is dependent on contributions from people who don't watch.

Commercial channels manage OK so why not BBC?

The trouble with paying from General Taxation means even more people who don't use BBC will be paying for BBC - so in many respects worse than current situation.

Maybe I don't understand what a "public service" broadcaster is, what it means and why or who needs one. According to UK Government this means "Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man." but then other channels have the "impartial" constraint as per OFCOM (eg Channel 4).

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Time-slip does not work on the free versions of ITVX or 4OD.
Not for me at least.

Correct.

I had a half price offer for Channel 4, so I thought for £1-70 a month, I thought why not?
Fact is that ad free isn’t ad free. Each program I have watched says for contractual reasons the program contains breaks.
Turns out the breaks are all for Channel 4 shows. Can be as many as 3 breaks in an hour. They are a bloody nuisance, so I won’t even pay £19-99 come renewal time.

 

[Pblakeney]

Correct.

I had a half price offer for Channel 4, so I thought for £1-70 a month, I thought why not?
Fact is that ad free isn’t ad free. Each program I have watched says for contractual reasons the program contains breaks.
Turns out the breaks are all for Channel 4 shows. Can be as many as 3 breaks in an hour. They are a bloody nuisance, so I won’t even pay £19-99 come renewal time.

Much like the time I subscribed to avoid ads mostly to watch Cheers right through.
They withdrew the series before there was enough time to watch all the series. I was upset enough to cancel and took Netflix instead.

 

[Xipe Totec]

I unsubscribed from the BBC a couple of years back - I do not use any of its services. They send a letter (containing veiled threats) every year which compels me to confirm that I am still not using any of their services - or accessing any other live 'programming' or 'TV programmes' on any other service.

Evidently they are losing subscribers at an alarming rate and are talking about expanding the license fee to cover all streaming services, regardless of whether the content's live or not. I'd assume this is going to be difficult, if not impossible to police - it'll be interesting to see how this works for them. I am not considering re-subscribing.

 

[Psamathe]

Evidently they are losing subscribers at an alarming rate and are talking about expanding the license fee to cover all streaming services, regardless of whether the content's live or not. I'd assume this is going to be difficult, if not impossible to police - it'll be interesting to see how this works for them. I am not considering re-subscribing.

They are also very "uncooperative" with regard streaming. I use a VPN for privacy reasons, live in UK and use a VPN server based in UK with a TV license yet I can't use iPlayer because BBC don't like my IP address (which is UK geotagged) - so I pay yot don't get their full service 'cos they won't respect people wanting privacy/security.