Bronco 29,042 Posted Friday at 10:04 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:04 AM 4 minutes ago, gagzus said: This is ABSOLUTELY happening lol they’ve already started putting a BBC News livestream on YouTube too. So they can add YouTube to the list. Netflix has been heavily considered for well over a year since they started putting on live US sports and Disney+ is showing the SuperBowl live worldwide in 2027. It might happen, it might not. It might get announced, it will be rowed back on before the end of the year if it is. Burnham & Healey are very tuned into how policies land on the ground. The license fee is politically toxic. So if this does get announced, the blow back will very likely make them U-Turn. Hell, I'm willing to bet its a sacrificial lamb policy. Something headline grabbing, likely to be universally unpopular and landing at a time when the BBC is under a lot of public pressure.... Perfect distraction item to get something more valuable and likely to be unpopular pushed through. The gays know how to party Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celloo Deng 56,528 Posted Friday at 10:37 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:37 AM so does that mean you technically have to pay twice to watch Netflix etc because you'd need both the subscription and the tv license? an absolute nonsense. bbc are losing their marbles. also if you never respond to any of the letters then they don't know your details/name and can't do anything about it. funnily enough we even have those threatening letters showing up at the hospital i work at, so that's what kind of people they are. she/her 🖤 Gaga, Billie, MJ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagzus 26,873 Posted Friday at 10:37 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 10:37 AM 32 minutes ago, Bronco said: It might happen, it might not. It might get announced, it will be rowed back on before the end of the year if it is. Burnham & Healey are very tuned into how policies land on the ground. The license fee is politically toxic. So if this does get announced, the blow back will very likely make them U-Turn. Hell, I'm willing to bet its a sacrificial lamb policy. Something headline grabbing, likely to be universally unpopular and landing at a time when the BBC is under a lot of public pressure.... Perfect distraction item to get something more valuable and likely to be unpopular pushed through. I mean they’ve also just created a law that discriminated against trans people and this is the one that gets the most headlines like ok? Definitely a distraction Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco 29,042 Posted Friday at 11:03 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:03 AM 13 minutes ago, gagzus said: I mean they’ve also just created a law that discriminated against trans people and this is the one that gets the most headlines like ok? Definitely a distraction It's like the infamous pasty tax from the Coalition era. Everyone remembers that from the omnishambles budget, but forget about the rise in alcohol duty that stopped the hospitality sector recovering from the 2008 crash. The gays know how to party 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helxig 45,963 Posted Friday at 12:05 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:05 PM Now why the FU.CK does the UK government get to claim money just because you are WATCHING TV SHOWS. They provide literally nothing and are trying to claim money? Because you are watching TV shows in the privacy of your own home? On the internet? That's f.ucked up I'll be myself until they fūcking close the coffin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nATAH 59,271 Posted Friday at 12:20 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:20 PM 1 minute ago, Helxig said: Now why the FU.CK does the UK government get to claim money just because you are WATCHING TV SHOWS. They provide literally nothing and are trying to claim money? Because you are watching TV shows in the privacy of your own home? On the internet? That's f.ucked up the point of the license was to fund public radio services back in the 1920s but then went on to fund television programming in the 1940s. the public funding is meant to keep BBC programming free from commercial advertising but now the license includes any form of live TV since TV rapidly grew from just the BBC to ITV (another channel) in 1955, Channel 4 in 1980s and Channel 5 in the 1990s the BBC main channels are ad free apart from their own advertisements for new shows or whatever (but other channels like ITV are filled with product adverts) and you can access BBC iPlayer as a sort of netflix for older BBC shows or live tv but legally you need the license for this service now we exist in a grey area of streaming, where content is no longer aired live and the relevance of live tv has declined so people aren't buying licenses anymore because you don't need it for what's on netflix or amazon or whatever you have on DVD and the license only has one option: £180 for all the tv and radio services provided by the BBC i'm guessing this is their attempt at modernising the license in the age of streaming but this idea is so stupid, all they need to do is offer license tiers... nobody wants to pay £180 for all this extra stuff they never use when they only want to watch live tv, a basic license that covers just live tv would probably sell like hot cakes mother, what must i do? 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagzus 26,873 Posted Friday at 12:23 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 12:23 PM (edited) 25 minutes ago, Helxig said: Now why the FU.CK does the UK government get to claim money just because you are WATCHING TV SHOWS. They provide literally nothing and are trying to claim money? Because you are watching TV shows in the privacy of your own home? On the internet? That's f.ucked up So the way it’s SUPPOSED to work is the TV licence money funds the BBC and it’s supposed to be entirely impartial, ad free and provide programming based on public needs and wants. For example in the UK we have ofcom where you can complain to about TV standards and shows and sometimes the BBC takes the feedback to heart and makes changes to their programming. The blanket statement was for anything that has the capability of showing LIVE television, and since Streaming did not it was exempt, but now in the UK they’re starting to show livestreams of shows, sports and news on them AND because some of them also now show things from British channels like the BBC and ITV or Channel 4 —so the BBC’s blanket statement has added them into it. They’ve also started a 24hr BBC News livestream on YouTube now, so I expect that will be involved. A big problem as well is, because the BBC is partly governmental/state level. Any content that is out into the UK versions of the streamers will now have to abide by OFCOM and BBFC rules. So they can essentially block certain shows, movies and content from appearing on streamers at all. So if something has content deemed bad by OFCOM or the BBFC (or through complaints) it can be removed entirely from the library in the UK. It could also go as far as them getting a say in what some streamers can make, because a LOT of content is now filmed in the UK because of tax reasons. For example many New York shot from recent Disney movies or shows (not including sitcom sets) is filmed in Glasgow. So they’d get a say in the content that gets filmed here ultimately. Edited Friday at 12:32 PM by gagzus Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrangea 8,421 Posted Friday at 12:43 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:43 PM The bbc can lick my log cutter Looking down at my $t loser misery 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 31,747 Posted Friday at 12:50 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:50 PM 6 minutes ago, Hydrangea said: lick my log cutter 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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