I'm not so sure Al
I love the BBC and the fact that it's publicly funded but having people that want to watch TV foot the bill for radio, their web ventures etc. etc. doesn't sit well with me especially when you can watch most of the content online for free too. The TV licence just isn't fit for purpose.

As it's a great asset for the country and something to be proud of it'd be better for it to be paid for by the tax payer rather than the TV owner. Let anybody from anywhere in the world view all the content and listen to all the radio and we're sorted.

Could allow the bbc to advertise, in a strictly controlled manner, on their website to viewers outside the UK to recover some of the costs of the bandwidth international visitors use.

No need to arse about scaremongering to get people to pay a licence and we could be even more proud of our service because we'd have opened it up to the world.
( Captain V, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 13:50, Reply)