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Thread #115727   Message #2480643
Posted By: John MacKenzie
31-Oct-08 - 06:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jonathon Woss off air!
Subject: RE: BS: Jonathon Woss off air!
Why is the BBC trying to attract 'Yoof audiences'?
It is after all not they who pay the licence fee in most cases.
As I said before, we have no choice as to whether we pay the licence fee or not, if we have a TV receiver. On pain of fine or imprisonment, and the gain of a criminal record, to add to our collection.
It's also no good sitting there feeling smug and secure in the fact that you don't have a TV, because the day is not far away when your PC will be counted as a receiver, and you will have to pay a licence fee anyway. I believe this is coming about in Denmark even now.
So what we have then, is an organisation funded by compulsory contributions, who on that basis, don't need to please anybody. After all they will still get the dosh no matter what they put on!
So why pay obscene amounts of money to obscene presenters then?

XG