Scaryduck offers one of the best defences of the BBC’s licence fee I’ve ever read.
I was recently challenged, in another place, to justify the BBC Licence fee, and why, should “anyone have to pay for it when there’s nothing on the telly, and I can get ITV for nothing?”
To which I replied:
- BBC 1
- BBC2
- BBC3
- BBC4
- News 24
- BBC Parliament
- CBBC
- CBeebies
- Radio 1
- Radio 2
- Radio 3
- Radio 4
- Radio 5Live
- 6Music
- Radio 7
- 1Xtra
- Asian Network
- Regional TV studios providing news and culturally distinct programming
- Regional radio stations including national channels for Wales, NI and Scotland, with further stations in Welsh and Gaelic
- bbc.co.uk, the world’s most comprehensive news, entertainment and educational website
All that, and things like this.