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From: Jim on 2 Aug 2010 09:19 On 02/08/10 14:18, Hog wrote: >> Maybe it's similarly OK to nick the products which pay for commercial >> free-to-air TV channels through advertising...? > > What I said was; socially and economically it is a bad system. Would you prefer the BBC to be funded via general taxation or by advertising revenue?
From: Champ on 2 Aug 2010 09:20 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:06:17 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive numbers of >people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not to mention the >costs of reminders and enforcement. It's a terrible system. But, for raising money to fund TV production, it's better than all the alternatives. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: stephen.packer on 2 Aug 2010 09:25 Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were > saying: > > > Given that the BBC has, and still does, produce some of the best TV in > > the world, it's a charging model I'm happy to support. > > The TV licence is also a metric shitload cheaper than the cost of TV > advertising to the average household. How do you define and calculate the 'cost of advertising to the average household'?
From: Hog on 2 Aug 2010 09:34 Champ wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:06:17 +0100, "Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive >> numbers of people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not >> to mention the costs of reminders and enforcement. > > It's a terrible system. But, for raising money to fund TV production, > it's better than all the alternatives. But the consequences are unacceptable. Non payment of TV licence fines is the largest group of single parent females in jail. -- Hog
From: Adrian on 2 Aug 2010 09:35
stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> > Given that the BBC has, and still does, produce some of the best TV >> > in the world, it's a charging model I'm happy to support. >> The TV licence is also a metric shitload cheaper than the cost of TV >> advertising to the average household. > How do you define and calculate the 'cost of advertising to the average > household'? You could just look at the total ad revenue for the main terrestrial commercial channels, and divide by the number of households and get a figure that - even with the massive downturn over the last couple of years - is not a million miles from the TV licence fee - but that's a massively over-simplistic answer, since it ignores all the costs of production etc. Still, just from having one of our cars in a couple of blink-and-miss-'em scenes on a TV beer ad a few years back, my licence got paid for the thick end of a decade... |