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I pay the annual fee of £39.99 for Eurosport and that enables me to watch coverage on my PC, phone, iPad and cast to my TV.
I am fan of cycling and tennis and I think it is excellent value as they cover the major events of both those sports.
They cover many other sports as well.
MOEHAT Throughout the pandemic I’ve watched Bob Ross’s ‘Joy of Painting’ on BBC 4. It was a stroke of genius showing those half hour programmes at a time that many people were feeling quite stressed out.
Mum used to enjoy Bob Ross too when he was on TLC on Sky during their analogue years (early 90’s). She got a few of his books and paint and painted a few pictures from the book. She had one in the local gallery.
The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.BBC has spread itself too wide and is no longer unbiased.
Licence Fee is outdated.
It’s a tax on all our TV’s whether we want to watch the BBC or not.
A tax to make us pay the wages of people we don’t want to watch.Value Is EverythingIt would be worth it just to make the BBC “employees” just a little less smug and remind them that it might not be a ‘job for life’.
Just look how much some of these “parasites” are being paid:
BBC Reveals List Of Highest-Earning Stars; Gary Lineker Tops Ranking For Third Year
Lineker is a very good presenter but hes no andrew Neil who they couldn’t wait to get rid of (and we know why)
The Money hes paid is absurd but so long as he keeps up his wishy washy liberal guardianspeak twitter posts he will always be welcome on millions at the smug bbc family
“A tax to make us pay the wages of people we don’t want to watch.”
Must admit I agree, tbh.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The political views of Gary Lineker or anyone else not employed as part of news/current affairs are irrelevant.
Andrew Neil left to launch his own independent news channel that nobody watches, despite the massive appetite we were told we have for such a channel. He abandoned ship within weeks becuase it was a total car crash.
Journalists and broadcasters generally overestimate public appetite for their product.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Quite, I don’t watch football for the presenter. I’ll tune in a few minutes before the match, ignore the half time waffle and then turn off before the one hour inquest by the presenter and God knows how many ex pros.
tbh We all probably think similarly, that the presenter does not matter etc. But then when a good presenter leaves a programme the audience figures invariably go down quite a bit… Which tends to suggest our subconscious is telling us something different. Therefore the presenter is more important than we realise.
Value Is EverythingMore important to OTHERS maybe than we realise, not necessarily to us.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Not necessarily any individual one of us, Ian; but it being our “subconscious”ness, none of us know who those individuals are. Exception of course being if the person mutes / does not watch said presenters, then and only then do presenters definitely not matter.
Value Is EverythingI don’t think it makes much difference with sport. Does anyone watch the World Cup purely because Lineker hosts? No.
Other shows I can see how it does make a difference, many hosts make it their own, and presenting is a bloody hard skill. The Chase is a good example (not BBC), you can’t imagine it without Bradley Walsh.
BBC3 relaunched as a broadcast channel today I see. A somewhat odd decision I have to say. I’m at the long in the tooth end of the yoof market that it apparently caters for but looking at the drivel served up this evening I and most people I know* wouldn’t have had much interest even when we were 20.
*admittedly a very small sample size
I’m sitting in front of my television set as I type and trying to remember the last time I watched anything on it.
I know I watched Eve Of The Daleks on New Years Day, but that was a month ago now.
My licence fee equates to 12 King Prawn Pathias with pilau rice a year and tbh that sounds much better value than subsidising the salaries of Gary Lineker and all the other assorted luvvies working there.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"
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