No more BBC3 - the beginning of the end of the TV licence?

[nemicu]

BBC budget cuts have been blamed for the demise of the terrestrial channel BBC3. Even though BBC3 nets around 4 million viewers a year, their £90 million budget just doesn't cut it. So I suppose that because the licence fee is at it's least significant compared to other channels available for free or as part of a media package, then are it's days numbered?

 

[drawboy]

Their 90 million is the tip of the iceberg. Take into account the programmes they sell abroad and the money they get from selling the programmes they have already charged us for making back to us in the form of DVD's and box sets and that figure goes up dramatically. The problem lies not with the cost of the things they make it is in the over inflated salaries they pay to their employees. I personally do not care who presents a programme as long as it is good. The same goes for their radio output. I do not need Chris Evans in the morning as long as the content is good. I prefer radio 4 in the morning and radio 3 all day anyway.

 

[Tashyboy]

Everything I have watched on the internet which is were BBC3 is gonna end up, ends up being hammered by advertisements. So why is it that BBC3 which has 4 million viewers is going to be advert free. Is this another example of the beeb missing another financial opportunity.

PS I dint even know there was a BBc3 so ave never even seen it.

 

[G_Mulligan]

surely when it comes to radio the presenter is a huge amount towards the content? I guess tv too when you look at the wildlife programmes are nothing without David Attenborough. The license fee guarantees a certain amount of cult tv and specialist programmes not just the mass audience stuff you get on other channels. While I think it has become watered down over the last 10 years or so when they do something well like planet earth, wonders of the solar system, sherlock, the office, to name just a few recent successes they really blow everything else out of the water.

 

[GB72]

I used to get wound up when I listened to Radio 1. Aside from the over inflated salaries paid there was also the need to send everyone to ibiza every summer, to send every show and presenter to every festival and to put on a massive 2 day festival every year which was meant to take a festival to places that get little live music but seemed to go to big cities with plenty of gigs.

Rant over

 

[louise_a]

I watch BBC3 a lot so this really disappoints me.

 

[GB72]

Luckily I can get iplayer on my TV so this does not make much difference and I still get my fix of Family Guy and American Dad

 

[SocketRocket]

The BBC is a massive money wasting machine. They still have too many tiers of Management, overpaid managers/Presenters, news corespondents and their supporting teams etc. Every bit of news is supported by someone stood near the event worldwide with their camera-person and sound recorder, they make it look like they have just popped out of No 10 or the Palace to update us. It takes two people to read one piece of news off the auto-que!

Slash their budgets and stop them wasting our money!

 

[CMAC]

I watch BBC3 a lot so this really disappoints me.

it will still be broadcast Louise, just online.

To answer the OPs question- No!

 

[G1BB0]

I have freeview in my bedroom and like nowt better than a bit of Family Guy/American Dad as I am contemplating work in the morning

I bet we still have a load of other dross broadcast on the other channels with the usual bunch of overpaid presenters !!!!

 

[Slime]

Everything I have watched on the internet which is were BBC3 is gonna end up, ends up being hammered by advertisements. So why is it that BBC3 which has 4 million viewers is going to be advert free. Is this another example of the beeb missing another financial opportunity.

PS I dint even know there was a BBc3 so ave never even seen it.

I watch it every night for my daily fix of Family Guy & American Dad.

Slime.

 

[Sponge1980]

I watch it every night for my daily fix of Family Guy & American Dad.

Slime.

Same here. I like Bad Education and Bluestone 42 too.

 

[Crazyface]

BBC 1 ,2,3 and 4 can all go for me, utter sh one t. We do not watch any of it. The only bit of TV worth watching is on E4 amd More 4. We are currently assessing what we actually watch and it is looking very likely that we will switch off our access to Virgin's TV and then stop paying the TV licence. Everything we watch can be obtained over the 'net and as long as we don't watch it "live" then we do not need a licence. Plus why do we pay £12 a month for a licence then a further £x a month to watch Virgin's standard TV? Nuts to that. (PS We can't get Freeview)