Thanks BBC

STEED · 03-02-08, 06:02 PM

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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

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.

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.

Captain Nemo · 03-03-08, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

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

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Originally Posted by Friedmann

Considering all the superb BBC programming I have watched over the years I would gladly pay the fee.

Such as? :hmm:

STEED · 03-03-08, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by mrbeast

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.

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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

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

03-02-08, 08:13 PM	#3
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	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: __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

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mrbeast Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bolton, UK Posts: 1,236 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Licence fee costs about £0.37 a day. __________________

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Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

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flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Makes me gald i dont pay my licence fee! looks nervously over shoulder __________________

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Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	We get our share of the British Bilking Corporation here in the US too. PBS. The Pledging & Begging Station. Luckily, it's only voluntary.

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Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Big deal at this whole overblown drama. __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

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Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	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' __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

03-03-08, 11:20 AM	#11
Friedmann Bosun Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Aussie in Oslo, Norway Posts: 65 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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.

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Friedmann Bosun Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Aussie in Oslo, Norway Posts: 65 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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.

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Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]