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BBC on verge of bankrupting commercial radio
BillieTheBot
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And still people will continue to defend the disgraceful business practices of the BBC, which make Tesco look like a paragon of virtue and ethical business.
The sooner the BBC is shut down, carved up and sold off the better. The BBC needs to be nothing more than two TV channels, and the local radio stations. The BBC has no place competing with commercial business, and using extortion to put them all out of business.
An absolute disgrace.
Cue the argument "but Life on Mars is good!!!"...
And still people will continue to defend the disgraceful business practices of the BBC, which make Tesco look like a paragon of virtue and ethical business.
The sooner the BBC is shut down, carved up and sold off the better. The BBC needs to be nothing more than two TV channels, and the local radio stations. The BBC has no place competing with commercial business, and using extortion to put them all out of business.
An absolute disgrace.
Cue the argument "but Life on Mars is good!!!"...
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Aye. Radio 4, however, is as close to perfection as radio gets.
But hey, Top Gear is good, as is World Service!
Less people like him about, better! ;p
I do party agree though - The BBC should not be terminated, but neither should the license fee be increased to pay for it to take over the damn market. I say keep the BBC, but there is no reason it should become dominant - I disagree with the mass amount of station - should have just kept the original ones.
If more people choose to listen to BBC channels than to others, then the rest should improve. Nobody is forcing the punters to listen to BBC programmes.
That's life for you.
more regularly than commercialk.
i'm loosing my mind ...
But when the BBC has a far bigger budget, because it will imprison people who don't pay it huge swathes of cash, it's hard for independent and commercial operators to compete.
That's the problem. The BBC has a bottomless pit of cash, so it can put on mega events and pay fat cunts like Moyles seven figure salaries. NO commercial operator can compete, because the BBC has no budgetary constraints because it can extort more millions out of people if it runs out of cash.
A publicly-funded organisation should not be acting as a commercial operator. That's the long and the short of it. It is a disgusting waste of public money, and even beyond that, it is not fair.
The fact that for many years the BBC has had the final say on who gets national FM licences has nothing to do with anything of course. It has nothing to do with how Century, Virgin and Galaxy have all been torpedoed, oh no.
usualy on journeys with people in a vehicle i will be forced to now and again.
but ...how can anyone want to listen to adverts and jingles over and bloody over?
it has to be the road to insanity.
I find it annoying, that's why I don't listen to BBC Radio One. Every second thing is an advert telling me to watch some shitey programme with Graham fucking Norton, complete with his multi-million pay packet.
A DJ is a DJ. The records stations play are identical. If anything radio stations have it far easier than TV stations. If people are switching off, then they're doing something wrong. Welcome to capitalism and consumer choice.
Incidentally BBC channels have budgets that must be adhered to, just like the other stations. The BBC does not, by any stretch of the imagination, have limitless amounts of money.
And proof that the people prefer state run stuff- Because it's better!
And am I the ONLY person here who listens to World Service? You fuckers should, its really rather good!
Quite. At least when a State Train crashed... it was just "Bloody State". Not passing the buck for ages as no-one wanted the blame. Private companies - just as corrupt as the state, but even less accountable.
but it is giving people what they want. Seems very fair to me. On the other hand, "business, compete, fair" are an unusal set of words.
The usual complaint is the BBC spends money on stuff that nobody wants. I'm glad you disagree
Commerical radio is state run, just the profit goes somewhere else and it's not paid for by theftation.
At the end of the day if you support the BBC, you support the kidnap of your neighbours and the extortion of tens of millions of people to pay for your entertainment. Eastenders has never been that good imho, even the bit's with Den.
I listen to CD's, or the music on my PC when I'm at home now. It's mega hassle to go and turn the tuner on, and manually adjust the knob to switch stations! My amplifier is always on, so it stays nice and warm - and my PC is on 24/7 as well, so it's a matter of convenience.
Little chance of the radio on my bike. Sometimes listen to music on my SmartPhone but for the most part, I don't bother. Radio plays a limited role in my life.
As for TV, I don't really watch much. I like motoring programmes, the news, Neighbours and Eastenders. Oh, and The Dead Zone, but I can very much take it or leave it. I lived without a TV for 2 years, and rarely missed it - I find much of it drivel.
I'm a bit partial to 'Deal or no deal' though! Often watch it with my granny
As a wild example, did you know that one out of every four Top of the Pops is pre-recorded? At the end of the three live shows they record extra songs and a scripted selection of infills - then they put together a fourth show which looks live without using the budget to erect the set, book stars, arrange guests, organise hospitality etc...
When my father was interviewed for a Radio 4 programme on the development of Education there were just two people working on the recording - the producer and the presenter, who also handled the sound equipment. There could've been a whole team of people but the BBC realised they only needed two.
And this is just a small example, there are things like this going on all through the BBC - so don't tell me the BBC has a limitless budget and wastes money.
Not for much longer, who the hell is up that early anyway?
What's wierder is the tune they play at 12.45am before the shipping forcast.
Before I get back on topic, tonight sees (or hears) the first installment of 'Small Gods', a serialisation of the Terry Pratchett novel about Discworld deities... 11-11:30.
I don't listen to commercial radio, but I wonder what impact this will have on community radio, if any?
Have you ever got tickets and gone to the shows? They're free.
The point is that the BBC does have a bottomless pit of cash. If it runs out of money, they just whack up the licence fee. The BBC can create 42,000 new cable TV stations- none of which are watched- simply because it has a guaranteed income every year which is not dependent on results.
The BBC can send four times as many people to the World Cup as ITV, simply because it has the right to take £130 a year out of my pocket regardless of results.
When the BBC becomes accountable then I may have more time for it. When BBC bosses are made bankrupt when programmes fail I will have more time for it. But as long as the BBC uses a bottomless pit of public money to drive private enterprise into the ground the BBC will continue to be an anachronistic shame on this country.
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