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BBC under fire again for spending £20,000 of licence payers' money on Wimbledon junket
The BBC is embroiled in a new spending row after using more than £20,000 of licence fee payers' money to pay for entertaining at the Wimbledon tennis championships. Four members of the BBC Trust treated a group of "opinion formers and stakeholders" to tickets and hospitality at last July's ladies' singles final.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=523721&in_page_id=1770 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=523721&in_page_id=1770)
And what about the rest of us stakeholders? Yes us the poor sods who have to pay or the BBC send there thugs round to your house in the middle of the night. Yet another reason we should all stop paying the Bloated Bias Corporation there blood money.
Torplexed
03-02-08, 06:51 PM
We get our share of the British Bilking Corporation here in the US too. PBS. The Pledging & Begging Station. Luckily, it's only voluntary. :roll:
bookworm_020
03-02-08, 08:13 PM
THe Australian ABC once said that it cost every Australian just 6 cents a day for the ABC to be. I don't know how much it would cost now!:hmm:
mrbeast
03-03-08, 08:42 AM
Licence fee costs about £0.37 a day.
Captain Nemo
03-03-08, 09:19 AM
I agree with Steed on the BBC licence fee, it should be abolished. The licence is in effect a tax on owning a TV set whether you watch any BBC channels or not you have to pay. Even if you own a mobile phone capable of receiving TV you need a licence, quote from the TV Licensing website "you need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, digital box, DVD or video recorder, PC, laptop or mobile phone to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV".
Nemo
flakmonkey
03-03-08, 09:24 AM
Makes me gald i dont pay my licence fee! *looks nervously over shoulder*:-?
Tchocky
03-03-08, 09:41 AM
Looking at the BBC as a whole, I think the licence fee is relatively cheap...
But that's just me.
Konovalov
03-03-08, 09:46 AM
Big deal at this whole overblown drama. :zzz:
Captain Nemo
03-03-08, 10:08 AM
Looking at the BBC as a whole, I think the licence fee is relatively cheap...
But that's just me.
Yes, but it's a matter of choice and in this case if you own TV receiving equipment you don't have a choice but to pay up or get nicked.
Nemo
Kapitan_Phillips
03-03-08, 11:06 AM
Its plain old monopolising. They assume because they're the British Broadcasting Company, all television feeds have to go through them.
Even if you just bought a small TV to go with your Playstation or X-Box, you'd pay the fee, because its 'possible to get BBC programming' on the set.
Last time I checked, shops dont charge people for 'being able to buy that porkchop'
Friedmann
03-03-08, 11:20 AM
Considering all the superb BBC programming I have watched over the years I would gladly pay the fee.
In regards to the £20,000. Its a tiny sum of money, especially where the government is concerned. I think people could find much better examples of excesses to get their panties in a twist over.
Kapitan_Phillips
03-03-08, 11:27 AM
Considering all the superb BBC programming I have watched over the years I would gladly pay the fee.
Such as? :hmm:
Licence fee costs about £0.37 a day.
And the cost of the Royal Family per person for a year is 62p. I would say the Royal Family was better value for money. ;) :up:
Royal family 'cost 62p per person'
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the taxpayer 62p per person per year, Buckingham Palace accounts revealed today.
The total cost of keeping the monarchy in the last financial year rose by 4.2 per cent to £37.4 million, royal accountants said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/royal-family-cost-62p-per-person-405824.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/royal-family-cost-62p-per-person-405824.html)
As for the BBC they are a bloated over payed organization which should be bought to book.
Friedmann
03-03-08, 11:40 AM
Absolutely Amazing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)
Top Gear
Are you being served?
Blackadder
Dads Army
Extras
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Office
Red Dwarf
Documentaries too numerous to list.
I was pretty much raised on the BBC, or at least its programming being rebroadcast on the ABC in Australia.
Perhaps if I were a whinging pom I would have a different perspective, while my family is British I never seemed to inherit the proclivity to moan and complain about seemingly trivial things. ;)
Tchocky
03-03-08, 11:48 AM
Adding in
Today (BBC R4 - basically any R4 news/comment)
Newsnight
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Blue Planet
Front Row
The News Quiz
News 24
Absolute Power
There's the Armed Forces Network aswell
Kapitan_Phillips
03-03-08, 12:31 PM
Absolutely Amazing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_%28TV_series))
Top Gear
Are you being served?
Blackadder
Dads Army
Extras
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Office
Red Dwarf
All those in bold are no longer shown, or only shown at Chistmas. I'd sooner have UK Gold, thankyou.
The BBC did at one time produce very good programs but the rot set in in the late 80's and most of it is rubbish. The only exception is there wildlife programs. I say this to the BBC, pay what you watch not pay for what you don't watch.
Friedmann
03-03-08, 12:41 PM
Absolutely Amazing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_%28TV_series))
Top Gear
Are you being served?
Blackadder
Dads Army
Extras
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Office
Red Dwarf
All those in bold are no longer shown, or only shown at Chistmas. I'd sooner have UK Gold, thankyou.
Well to each their own :)
Tchocky
03-03-08, 12:43 PM
Don't watch much BBC TV, but it's the only radio I ever listen to. Top-notch.
Every time I watch it I'm refreshed by the total lack of ads. Ahhhhh
I get more than my monies worth.
more importantly, so does the country.
mrbeast
03-03-08, 02:24 PM
Licence fee costs about £0.37 a day.
And the cost of the Royal Family per person for a year is 62p. I would say the Royal Family was better value for money. ;) :up:
Royal family 'cost 62p per person'
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the taxpayer 62p per person per year, Buckingham Palace accounts revealed today.
The total cost of keeping the monarchy in the last financial year rose by 4.2 per cent to £37.4 million, royal accountants said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/royal-family-cost-62p-per-person-405824.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/royal-family-cost-62p-per-person-405824.html)
As for the BBC they are a bloated over payed organization which should be bought to book.
Fair enough; if you don't mind paying a family of German imigrants to live a life of luxury. ;)
Of course you have to pay for the royal family as the civil list is drawn from general taxation, but If you object to the licence fee there is no law says you have to own a tv set.
TteFAboB
03-03-08, 02:32 PM
If the BBC is so good that it has many enthusiastic fans and viewers it shouldn't have to live off a mandatory tax, unless it is only worth 4 penny indeed and not a fully-fledged subscription.
mrbeast
03-03-08, 02:40 PM
If the BBC is so good that it has many enthusiastic fans and viewers it shouldn't have to live off a mandatory tax, unless it is only worth 4 penny indeed and not a fully-fledged subscription.
Its not a mandatory tax its a voluntary one if you object to paying the fee sell your tv.
People who drive cars pay road tax people who watch tv pay the licence fee.
No car = no road tax.
No TV = no licence fee.
Fair enough; if you don't mind paying a family of German imigrants to live a life of luxury. ;)
Of course you have to pay for the royal family as the civil list is drawn from general taxation, but If you object to the licence fee there is no law says you have to own a tv set.
KP, has pointed out the problem here. You want to play on your Play station only and you do not watch the BBC you got a hell of a fight in the courts to prove your case that you don't watch the BBC so why the hell do I need a license to play TV games?
I have had the BBC thugs on my door step and there not nice in any way what so ever. And that was a rare mix up by them resulting in no apology from them.
As for the Royal Family Prince Philip is a blast. :D :lol:
mrbeast
03-03-08, 03:10 PM
Well I can understand that you might have a bit of trouble trying to persuade them that you only play games on a TV set but think thats pretty understandable.
TteFAboB
03-03-08, 03:39 PM
Its not a mandatory tax its a voluntary one if you object to paying the fee sell your tv.
People who drive cars pay road tax people who watch tv pay the licence fee.
No car = no road tax.
No TV = no licence fee.
But to pay car tax you do have to drive it, and especially fuel it, and you can do nothing but drive it over roads.
A TV, however, can be used for more than watching the BBC, if at all.
How understandable is this:
http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/4/3/3/f_bbc1m_fc453f7.jpg
http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/4/3/3/f_bbc2m_787d535.jpg
It's missing a B: The British Big Brother Company.
mrbeast
03-03-08, 03:51 PM
Its not a mandatory tax its a voluntary one if you object to paying the fee sell your tv.
People who drive cars pay road tax people who watch tv pay the licence fee.
No car = no road tax.
No TV = no licence fee.
But to pay car tax you do have to drive it, and especially fuel it, and you can do nothing but drive it over roads.
A TV, however, can be used for more than watching the BBC, if at all.
How understandable is this:
http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/4/3/3/f_bbc1m_fc453f7.jpg
http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/4/3/3/f_bbc2m_787d535.jpg
It's missing a B: The British Big Brother Company.
Very.
Why should people get away with watching TV without paying the licence fee when everybody else, even people who might not agree but are still law abiding enough to comply, do?
If the BBC is so good that it has many enthusiastic fans and viewers it shouldn't have to live off a mandatory tax, unless it is only worth 4 penny indeed and not a fully-fledged subscription.
Nah, that would mean the BBC would be open to competition.
However good the BBC is, competition would take away a percentage of the audience.
That means we would lose many of the great programs and services the BBC provides.
Eventually the BBC would become just another company interested only in profit, rather
than providing a public service.
ITV, Chn4, Chn5, etc are just utter pap compared to the BBC.
Jimbuna
03-03-08, 05:40 PM
Anyone for tennis ? http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2108/thumbsupkc7.gif
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img104/2807/icontennisyk3.gif
mrbeast
03-03-08, 05:54 PM
Anyone for tennis ? http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2108/thumbsupkc7.gif
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img104/2807/icontennisyk3.gif
I say! Super!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-NpyaOWV0&feature=related
flakmonkey
03-04-08, 04:09 AM
It just bugs me that because theyre the almighty BBC they assume that anyone with a tv is watching their programming and just apply an indiscriminate fee to everyone.
If they want people to pay for the garbage they turn out then they should become a subscription service like porn or movie channels and then at least only those who want BBC programmes would have to pay.
Kapitan_Phillips
03-04-08, 06:17 AM
If the BBC is so good that it has many enthusiastic fans and viewers it shouldn't have to live off a mandatory tax, unless it is only worth 4 penny indeed and not a fully-fledged subscription.
Nah, that would mean the BBC would be open to competition.
However good the BBC is, competition would take away a percentage of the audience.
That means we would lose many of the great programs and services the BBC provides.
Eventually the BBC would become just another company interested only in profit, rather
than providing a public service.
ITV, Chn4, Chn5, etc are just utter pap compared to the BBC.
You forgot the sarcasm tags ;)
Jimbuna
03-04-08, 10:54 AM
Anyone for tennis ? http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2108/thumbsupkc7.gif
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img104/2807/icontennisyk3.gif
I say! Super!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-NpyaOWV0&feature=related
LMAO :lol:
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