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My open letter regarding the BBC
I am writing to you regarding the BBC.
I wish to suggest that the BBC is simply privatised (get rid of it).
This may sound extreme, but in truth is not.
The BBC is a dead format (or at least dying quick).
The licence fee must be got rid of. It is now just a joke that in a world where you have several hundred stations on Sky (and so on) as well as the thousands of stations you can access on-line, not to mention that such as youtube and other sites supply TV shows, that a single business gets a sex tax fee over over £130 each year per household. Its disgusting.
People simply to not watch the BBC. If it closed today only a few would care.
Clearly even the management find the money excessive as we find that the £36 million failed show ?The Voice? has been re-purchased for two more years. Clearly money to burn.
I have often asked people what they watch on the BBC, and they are themselves often surprised when at the end of the week, they look at what they have watched and in many cases its 0 hours. When they do watch it, its often for the odd film. So how on earth can one request any money from people.
I am also surprised how much advertising goes on. Clearly the talk shows on BBC are simply these days just to promote a film, book, or some other product. Not to mention the HUGE promotion of the national lottery (great, lets encourage people to gamble). This is not to mention shows such as the huge promo show for Andrew Lloyd Webber ? I?d Do Anything?, this was just weeks of an advert for his westend show.
Many of the shows the BBC make are clearly aimed towards selling to the USA. Yet paid for by the UK public.
The BBC should be treat like any other business. At the moment its no different to me giving £100 each year to shop ?A? even if I only shop at shop ?B?.
The justification of the BBC licence fee I believe was that it was meant to create high quality TV shows in a time when there were really only 3 to 4 UK TV stations. There was some logic to this. However this time has long gone. Rather than leading, the BBC is simply trying to compete (with such as the voice). It over pays for its stars (which in turn has created a false market and so other stations have to pay more or cannot compete).
Its also has BBC1, which has been repeated much better by most other stations. For some reason it fills up have the airways with its dismal local radio, as if its even needed.
The only station/service worth keeping is BBC4 (and BBC4 extra), as its the only thing that other stations appear as yet not to be able to reproduce. These two stations are worth keeping, and one would suspect the cost to run them would be so low that these could be paid for via tax.
The rest of the BBC should simply be sold. Allow others to run it. Let them put adverts on it or whatever they wish. One would think with all the back catalogue of TV shows it would be would billions.
While this may sound extreme. Think even 10 years down the line, how many people will have a TV to watch TV on? Most will be on a phone, or tablet. TV stations themselves may not exist as its going to be more cost effective to simply upload your shows to the net for a time when people can simply download and watch when they want. However oddly one would suspect that the radio will increase in use, as after all most cars have a radio now, and most phones have a radio or can simply stream stations live from the net.
And should you still belive the BBC is still worth keeping, may I suggest you tell me a day when it has something worth watching on. As I write this (Sunday 30th March) I note that BBC1 is just a few sports shows, and some some old tat that's been going on years (Antiques Roadshow), not only not worth watching, but you can find even better versions on even the worst cable TV stations. The rest of the week seems no better.
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