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Originally Posted by Gayle
What gets me about the licence though is that you can only get BBC3 & 4 if you have Sky or cable or if you pay extra for one of those digi boxes. But you would still have to pay the same licence fee if you didn't have one of those extras.
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From 2009 you won't get any stations in the Granada area without a digital receiver. Let's face it, cost isn't an issue anymore, as you can get a digi-box for about £20 nowadays. OK, so people can't get the extra channels without a STB, but you're going to have to get one sometime.
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Originally Posted by Gayle
Bring on adverts and scrap the licence is my opinion
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The thing is, commercial stations just wouldn't produce the kind of programmes the BBC do now. If they saw a profit in it, they'd be making them now too. Just recently I've really enjoyed watching 'How We Built Britain', 'The History of Rock' and 'Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain'. Top quality programmes the likes of which no commercial station is producing.
The basic package on Sky is £15 per month and it is total rubbish. The BBC is just over £11 per month and the BBC are producing its own programmes! How can that not be VFM?