sjs wrote:Do they still cover expensive sporting events?
I personally wouldn't know ....................... we don't have a telly!
Last time I saw any telly, was at a pub during the World Cup.
I paid no attention, as did many others.
sjs wrote:Do they still cover expensive sporting events?
thirdcrank wrote:I don't think that the abolition or curtailment of free licences will hit the BBC. I thought that they agreed to this cut in income after some sort of negotiation with Gordo. Anything is possible, of course, but it's much harder to take away something than not to give it in the first place. I could imagine it being continued for existing beneficiaries who are all old and getting older but stopping it for anybody else. If I've read it correctly, this will come into effect in 2020, but after a lifetime of just missing out, my 75th birthday falls in 2019. (Carefully worded there.)
PS I think they shell out a lot on Wimbledon and perhaps some snooker.
sjs wrote:al_yrpal wrote:
Save money by cutting all the crappy quiz programmes they pump out and the over the top coverage of expensive sporting events that a minority are interested in.
Al
Do they still cover expensive sporting events?
Mick F wrote:Yep.
Scrap the TVL and fund the BBC some other way.
Doesn't mean we'd watch anything though or even be tempted to.
Mick F wrote: ... Scrap the TVL and fund the BBC some other way. ...
Cunobelin wrote:For instance "The Bodyguard" is the present "Jewel in the BBC's Crown", and you could only watch with a License and / or BBC subscription.
BUt only a matter of time, like its predecessors it will become available on Netflix, Sky, Amazon Prime etc.
mjr wrote:Cunobelin wrote:For instance "The Bodyguard" is the present "Jewel in the BBC's Crown", and you could only watch with a License and / or BBC subscription.
BUt only a matter of time, like its predecessors it will become available on Netflix, Sky, Amazon Prime etc.
All of those are also subscription services, but if you don't want to pay directly, most of their dramas and comedies seem to turn up on UKTV's app eventually. (UKTV is co-owned by BBC and Discovery IIRC)