The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Fri Jan 31 2020 6:05pm

blythburgh wrote:
Thu Jan 30 2020 10:12am
More worrying is the axe of the Victoria Derbyshire programme and the cull of news programmes researchers etc. Has to happen because the Govt. is determined to kill off the Beeb and so forces it to pay for the 75+ licence and world service
With such substantial funding over decades the BBC failed to be innovative and has paid the price.
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by expressman33 » Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am

There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by Sarah » Mon Feb 17 2020 9:14am

expressman33 wrote:
Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
Talk led by a newspaper that charges minimum £312/year for its own digital subscription and owned by a company that will soon launch a commercial rival to BBC Radio 4.

Let's see what happens. A subscription model would kill the majority of BBC services.
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by macliam » Mon Feb 17 2020 9:21am

expressman33 wrote:
Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
This has been mooted since the election and Johnson's (or is it Cumming's) pique at BBC coverage. Is there anything new here?

It may be of interest that in Portugal, whilst RTP1 and the "official" channels, still carriy advertising, the television service is also financed by a levy attached to every electricity bill - whether or not the payer actually receives television or watches the channel. The levy is not as high as the TV license, but the effect is that people there pay to watch a commercial channel - so beware this form of funding in the UK.
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by blythburgh » Mon Feb 17 2020 9:39am

I am not being paranoid or am I? Cummings is pulling the strings and hates the BBC so the story is probably what he wants.

But will the puppet master still be around when the licence is up for talks about? More and more MP's not to mention Civil Servants will turn on him and try to destroy him
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Wed Feb 19 2020 9:18am

expressman33 wrote:
Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
By the time the BBC implement that Nexflix will make the BBC obsolete.
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by macliam » Wed Feb 19 2020 12:30pm

AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Wed Feb 19 2020 9:18am
expressman33 wrote:
Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
By the time the BBC implement that Nexflix will make the BBC obsolete.
Yes that's what you want, isn't it - faceless American conglomerates providing content to the UK, because if the BBC went, there would be nothing to stop the commercial channels being bought out. Netflix may be fine providing movies online, the cinema is no longer the social focus that it was, Netflix have also made some good movies of their own and extended that into drama serials - and if that's all you want on TV, so be it. But what about any local content (even "local" to the UK), what about entertainment other than dramas - what about news and all the rest?

This globalist argument makes me fear for the NHS - because it's like applying the 80/20 rule to a comprehensive supplier. If 80% of the work can be done by someone cheaper ot more responsive, let them have it, eh?

There is no doubt the BBC (like the NHS) needs reform - they are both "old" organizations, the problem is that those proposing "reforms" have vested interests - as in the current proponent who simply wants to stifle any opposition. Cummings, the master manipulator, is at work trying to build disatisfaction into something bigger - he did it with the EU so now he needs a new target......
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Re: The BBC is to axe its Red Button teletext service

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Wed Feb 19 2020 2:22pm

macliam wrote:
Wed Feb 19 2020 12:30pm
AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Wed Feb 19 2020 9:18am
expressman33 wrote:
Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
By the time the BBC implement that Nexflix will make the BBC obsolete.
Yes that's what you want, isn't it - faceless American conglomerates providing content to the UK, because if the BBC went, there would be nothing to stop the commercial channels being bought out. Netflix may be fine providing movies online, the cinema is no longer the social focus that it was, Netflix have also made some good movies of their own and extended that into drama serials - and if that's all you want on TV, so be it. But what about any local content (even "local" to the UK), what about entertainment other than dramas - what about news and all the rest?

This globalist argument makes me fear for the NHS - because it's like applying the 80/20 rule to a comprehensive supplier. If 80% of the work can be done by someone cheaper ot more responsive, let them have it, eh?

There is no doubt the BBC (like the NHS) needs reform - they are both "old" organizations, the problem is that those proposing "reforms" have vested interests - as in the current proponent who simply wants to stifle any opposition. Cummings, the master manipulator, is at work trying to build disatisfaction into something bigger - he did it with the EU so now he needs a new target......
OK, I shall leave you to it.
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