[jambutty]

Originally Posted by garinda

No licence fee equals no funding for the B.B.C.

Simple.

I notice that no defenders of the current system have commented on the fact that we pay for foreign language broadcasts to the rest of the world on the B.B.C,and which they get to listen to for free.

The other side of the coin is that we can listen to foreign broadcasts. Radio waves do not recognise international boundaries.

We are not the only country in the world that pays a license fee to listen to and view broadcasts.

Whilst serving in the Royal Navy we listened to the BBC World Service for news of home. We have forces committed all over the world and they, no doubt, tune in from time to time as do ex-pats.