Comment on MPs recommend BBC charter renewal is scrapped and licence fee is extended beyond TV
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 day agoI don’t like paying the licence fee because in a whole year I barely watch two shows on the BBC. However I carnivorously munch my way through their podcasts and have fond memories of watching BBC content as a child so I pay the fee each year.
If they start limiting more and more the content and podcast radio services, well… that would be a shame. I will cancel my payments.
ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I feel quite similar. I love the idea of the BBC and I have fond memories of listening to comedy shows with my dad in the car as a kid. I think they do good investigative journalism, although I wish they were less timid. I consume the panel shows, podcasts, the news website. I really want to support it and help it succeed.
But, they really frustrate me when they try to lock things down. If podcasts go sounds-only, I’ll stop listening, because I don’t want two different ways of consuming podcasts, and supporting open standards is more important to me than supporting the BBC.
I understand that they lock things down to prevent people free-riding, but I wish the government would stick a progressive ring-fenced tax on, and then they could release everything openly to everyone. Every step away from that feels like a dilution of its role as a public service.