Curry's Gave out my details!!!

And all the adverts are planned to run at the same time sometimes making it hard to find something to watch while the adverts are on!!!

AAIIIEEEE totally! except Channel 4 thats behind sometimes OR g.o.l.d their programs don't start/finish on the hour

the point about the BBC is that it's a public service and has editorial independence, it's not in the pay of big business or owned by multi millionaires or press barons. If the licence fee were abolished it would have to become just another broadcaster like all the rest, dependent on advertising and only interested in chasing ratings.
It is astonishingly good value compared to say Sky, with 4 tv channels, 8 radio stations plus all the local ones and a website with iplayer AND a world renowned and trusted newsgathering service. It's one of the few things left that is universally admired about Britain.
I know that it could flog Cilit Bang for loads of dosh but I am so glad there is at least one bit of the culture which is not trying to sell me crap as my price for watching.
If you have ever watched TV in the US then you will know quite how bad things could get. The adverts are longer than the programmes, which are shit, and filled with product placements.
Rant over

The BBC World Service on medium wave was the only form of decent news I had growing up in Zimbabwe and South Africa - there's no other news source like it, its available anywhere 24 hours a day.

BBC News is on in Australia on their version of Sky, and just about every news report on Australian radio is copied directly from the BBC. On a global scale only the CNN compares to it for TV news. Everywhere I've been, BBC News has been available, And in terms of TV programs, the BBC is quality - again Australian TV just copies straight from the BBC (in between adverts every 5 minutes like America). IMO people should be proud that British TV and radio is so dominant and well respected throughout the world.

DOUBLE POST :fart: WIFF WIFF.

CAN YOU HONESTLY SIT THERE WITH YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEART AND TELL ME THAT YOU WATCH ANY OF THE BBC CHANNELS THAT ARE ON?

I watch BBC4 a bit and listen to Radio 4 most of the day when I'm working. don't watch a lot of tv anyway.
rely on BBC 24 news when stuff happens, use the BBC web site from time to time, and iplayer sometimes for stuff I missed.
For me personally it's the only source of intelligent programming available. I realise a lot of people want to watch endless police camera action and guff like that which is fine but if it wasn't for the BBC there would be no radio for me at all, and not much TV either.
so yes, I can

thats because its pretty much american tv dictating it.

when i bought a tv and didnt have a licence i got a letter through the door to say they had been informed i'd bought a tv and please could i get a licence but it was about 1 month after i purchased and no baliff....thats just wrong!

my sister went without a tv licence for about a year and when the tv licence man turned up at her door to tell her off (without a baliff) he entered the house when she was watching countdown, sat down and said "so miss westwood, can i ask have you been watching your television?"

ha ha ha ha silly man, what was that you said "vowel please carol?"



hope your all sorted and settled back down now MOS, got a stress reliever with your name on it at mine.

Theres not a great deal the tv licence blokes can do anyway, even if they turn up with a bailiff. Just dont let them in. I didnt have a tv licnce for the whole time i lived at bedlington (6years!!!). They'd turn u at the door and id either tell them2piss off or send someone else to the door2say i wasnt in

I never answer the door to anyone unless I am expecting someone, NEVER.

Tell TV licesing to "Fuck off" iv done it twice times in 6 months, once the woman dropped i "we will be back house occupied" letter thru, once I squared up to the little fucker and he smiled and said "pass this to the home owner" and just walked off arsedropped and just three days ago I spotted a white transit with a fat man driving park up outside mine the whole of the back of the van was windowed but had green canvass curtains up, I watched him for few mins cos he looked suss then i seen the curtains in the back start twiching like fuck, then the back side slide doors slammed open, i expected the riot squard to bail out but it was some geek in a tweed jacket with a clip board he headed straight for my door knocked a few times then fucked off, but why would he be sitting in the back of a van when theres two spare seats alongside driver, strange, defo balifs of tv nazis

ps IF Baliffs turn up lock door and call Police I got told this by the police they dont like Baliffs at all

ps they dont check if the house has a license they check against the name so if u yr mam and yr dad all buy sep tv's u will get three requests from the tv lice.even if its been in yr dads name for years. its left up to you to call bombay and sort out the mess.... AS IF