BBC 'on the brink?': presenters paid 'big bucks' whilst millions of homes scrap paying licence fee

[@marybrown72091]

Cancelled my TV licence after the disgusting way Nigel Farage was treated by left wing audience and Bruce! That was the final straw for me! At 67 I use KZbin and Netflix now!

[@dftfire]

Be careful to only watch on-demand stuff on those services. The moment you watch anything live, you need a TV Licence

[@stvnewscensoringcommentson1585]

9.6 years with no TV - best years of my life

[@Parker_Douglas]

@@dftfire my letter states if I’ve got sky or virgin etc then I need a license.? I said to my son the bbc doesn’t provide my internet virgin does so why should I owe the bbc when they’re not providing my services. I’ve got sky glass so I steam everything nowadays.

[@pdonwarrior453]

❤❤❤❤❤​@@dftfire

[@marybrown72091]

@@dftfire To be honest I prefer a book or knitting than BS TV!

[@funkyboda]

Don't watch it!! Defund it!!

[@MDM1992]

Do both! Cancel the licence and leave it on muted just because fukum! Lol

[@HenrySlade-i7r]

Stopped watching and paying over 5 years ago, life is good without it.

[@lancelongfield5550]

and me 😀

[@joodznaturelives607]

Me too! 😄

[@Jokerjaxs]

Yes I did the same

[@malcolmabram2957]

Dont miss it, nothing watch anyway.

[@Bella-tx1rz]

Did you watch Wolf Hall?

[@neilmiller6214]

Forget the beeb, left wing virtue signalling woke tripe.

[@philipmilner9638]

Another good reason to not watch the BBC...

[@gordy4459]

This pensioner is licence free and hasn't watched BBC for a long time...give it a go...it's quite liberating...

[@karen4609]

me too

[@BrianGreene-rn9uz]

Who needs it when you have KZbin or Netflix to watch films, seriously so many good independent documentaries on here, many good independent short films, then podcasts, lots of news clips, stand up comedy etc etc. Haven't watched regular TV for well over a decade.

[@dftfire]

​​@@BrianGreene-rn9uzJust make sure to never watch anything live on either of those services you named, as then legally you do need a TV Licence. You don't need one if you only ever watch on-demand on them

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

I'm not a pensioner, and I've never had a TV licence.

[@nickg2431]

@@dftfire watch on a computer screen not a tv screen perhaps??

[@ronniehughes8378]

Cancel your license! Don’t get forced to pay for their propaganda

[@alexedwards6509]

Football fans watch MOTD for football highlights. They don't have a teen crush on a narcissistic former goal scrounger. They watch MOTD 2. And precious Gary can't work 2 days. He only gets £1.3 million

[@Bella-tx1rz]

Watch GBeebies propaganda for free, funded by a Dubai investment firm. Great times!

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Demand a refund. They have already spent the money. That really hurts them. Keep a running total of how much you have saved

[@gosskamperis2016]

Cancel your licence. Do it online. You have to pay The BBC to be allowed to watch other channels. THAT'S EXTORTION

[@1971dave]

22 years no licence, if the BBC had a subscription nobody would buy it ​@@gosskamperis2016

[@DerekShirreffs]

What a creep! Lineker is a has-been second rate footballer turned crisp salesman.😂😂😂😂

[@enkisdaughter4795]

He wasn’t a particularly good footballer

[@Neverforget1967]

He is an absolute vile man.. cancelled my licence, never watch BBC can’t stand the Biased lies of it all.

[@iankeill6865]

Gary Lineker shat himself Italia 90

[@michaelhowarth-w1e]

never a patch on bobby moore. woke lemon

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

I don't think Walker's does adverts with him anymore 😂 I've seen David Beckham in their adverts these days

[@northnsouth6813]

If the BBC were a private company no way would they be paying such vast amounts for people who only work part time but what do they care when we are paying a licence tax fee.

[@justinformed7367]

BBC already operates several private businesses such as BBC Studios & BBC Productions. They should be forced to go entirely private like ITV, & stop harassing the public for money. They should not be allowed the benefit of both private & public businesses. I stopped paying in 2015, & I don't view anything live or iplayer, so I'm not breaking the law.

[@sweeta17]

gl £ over 100 k every month surely thats wrong generally and more so while making the elderly and even very elderly to pay .

[@joreggelt-y7t]

Unfortunately not true, all these celebs get stupid money. Ant and Dec are reported to get £3.3 million a month from ITV. The BBC feels it has to compete with the commercial stations for the 'top talent' None of them are worth these amounts, it's insane.

[@tonycrayford3893]

​@@justinformed7367 the UKTV multichannel network is a commercial network, wholly owned as a subsidiary of the BBC.

[@northnsouth6813]

@@joreggelt-y7t Where is the "Top Talent"? BBC could get better people at a fraction of the salary.

[@chekky47]

Gave my Tv away in 2016 after listening to the bullshit poured by the BBC relating to Brexit!

[@jimbo-yv5jh]

another muppet on a BBC pension.

[@Patrick-ge2zn]

Former head of religion and ethics , AAQIL AHMED , pretty much says it all .

[@richardroulstone-roberts8598]

Probably not C of E.

[@janlesinski4719]

Just what I was thinking

[@Shagnasty1956]

@@janlesinski4719 I suspect, a Seventh Day Adventist,

[@paulmuaddib3470]

The BBC described the licence payers as "The great unwashed"

[@brendanpells912]

No, I think they meant reform voters.

[@001GRENADA]

Good for the bbc comments, I too have washed my hands from the bbc, I don't pay their licence tax and don't watch the crap they broadcast.

[@redbeard3923]

​@@brendanpells912Oh dear another leftie how's Gary

[@JaEDLanc]

@@brendanpells912obviously you’re not the sharpest, a reform voter wouldn’t watch the Bumming British Children gang.

[@tonyblakemore2355]

That's rich coming from 'The Great Brainwashed'.

[@kfckillie1]

Get rid of the licence get rid of the bbc, just don't pay....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🇬🇧

[@howardtyler7]

Why would the BBC need a Head Of Religion And Ethics anyway!??? Let alone this example!!???😂😂😂😂

[@Musical_Man_Guitar]

I've cancelled and don't miss live tv at all plus I get to feel good about not funding a company that hates my country. Come on in, the water is lovely!

[@AustinSaysSo]

Why anyone pays for that 💩 is beyond me.

[@sweeta17]

quite and especially in this day and age when so much else is available .

[@belfasta]

I stopped paying after all the lies and propaganda to support the IRAQ war

[@keithhooper6123]

Then there was Convid.

[@ancietman]

They been talking about the BBC being on the brink for years but it still survives.

[@sirbasilflapjack671]

Nonsense. Like Paul McCartney, Her Royal Highness The Princess Of Wales, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Cilla Black, Gordon the Gopher and Barry Chuckle, the BBC is alive and well under the guise of another entity. CHINA! Now there's a far-fetched conspiracy theory for you. Or is it? Or is it not? YOU decide. Or not, whatever floats your boat.

[@DevonDandy]

It only survives by cutting back what it does, they have wrecked Radio4Xtra, now just a poor man's version of Radio 4. loosing radio audiences all over the network

[@gary8306]

About £85 million loss of revenue😂😂😂 keep canceling.

[@rbir2653]

Why are you lemons still paying the tv licence fee. If you just watch netflix or KZbin you dont need to pay. Cancel your tv licence today. Defund the bbc.

[@UKCM]

"It's not just for the BBC" ..... what a load of BOLLOX ..... No money from the License Tax goes to any other channel other than the BBC

[@easyonenow]

1/2 million in one year, Fantastic. 😂😂😂 I defunded the BBC, in my home, in 2018.

[@Ghostmanoftheapocalypse]

Why would i pay for tv thats already paid for when its 80% repeats

[@scaryfakevirus]

It has nothing to do with quality. They see us as the great unwashed and have peds on their wage list.

[@sweeta17]

and they all li*ve in lux**ury

[@bear1245]

Haha I’ve ever never paid the nonce fee. Never will either 😂 Keep sending your letters

[@gosskamperis2016]

Cancel your licence. Do it online. You have to pay The BBC to be allowed to watch other channels. THAT'S EXTORTION

[@keithhooper6123]

You don't have to pay them at all.Tell them you don't have a tv,and watch what you like.

[@gosskamperis2016]

@@keithhooper6123 In fairness, I think you are probably right. I cancelled y licence online. Nobody has been round to check that I don't watch TV.

[@peterkelly6232]

Lynaker is a hypocrite

[@VincoVenator]

It's a tax, there's no other way to put it. Even if you don't watch the BBC which is what it pays for you are expected to pay it. We should not be paying a 'licence fee' to access all channels even if they have to fund themselves via advertising or subscriptions and the money goes to one corporation to push ideologically biased content.

[@MrDunkycraig]

No one watches match of the day for Linekar hes not worth 10p

[@joan4783]

Everyone needs to cancel the BBC LICENCE TAX NOW

[@unbelievablybelievable]

Government's threatening my 65 year old mother with jail to fund Mr.Linekers salary. Think about that.

[@RonaldShea5680]

Millions of British households no longer pay the bbc poll tax, why should YOU?

[@aleccap5946]

How many more times. SCRAP THE TV LICENCE!

[@matthewharding-ew1ts]

When it takes nearly 8,000 households just to pay Linekers obscene wages I too will be cancelling my licence next year when it expires.

[@craiguk82]

So glad I haven't directly funded their salaries for 4 years and counting... No licence needed here 🎉

[@db7314]

No the BBC shouldn’t be shelling out for this, it’s supposed to be a public broadcaster. Should be scrapped and made to compete like any other provider.

[@MrJordanwain]

Never had a TV license - the BBC’s handling of Brexit and Covid was horrific. I am not paying to have propaganda pumped into my home.

Not paid for approx 15yrs.

[@thetony5474]

Sorry….but why is that pervert still being paid by them?

[@sarahandrews5611]

I gave up my tv licence last Christmas because of these reasons.

[@joelsmith1866]

Stop being scared of letters- you get a lot but save the money

[@sentinel80]

Yes I get 1 every couple of months, don’t even open them put straight in bin 👍👍

[@lucyc3696]

I had someone knock on my door wanting to prove I don't watch live TV. I don't, but didn't let him in. So just be aware

[@joelsmith1866]

@@lucyc3696 don’t let them in, easy as that so well played

[@icdgyixifyinstereo]

@@lucyc3696 They work for Capita. They are not allowed to be on your premises without your permission.

[@grahamcook9289]

Can't pay, won't pay. I'm 64 and solely into on demand streaming. I haven't bought a licence for 16 years and never will again under the current 'live broadcast TV law (+ iPlayer)'. If they transfer the fee to the council tax or internet connection, I will still not pay.

[@dftfire]

Don't forget it includes watching ANYTHING live, legally. Not just TV channels. KZbin counts too, sadly, as do things like Netflix, AppleTV and Disney+

[@Frazman72]

Cancelled my license fee a few weeks ago. Wish I'd done it years ago!!

[@ellie698]

Congratulations. Welcome!

[@RonaldShea5680]

Millions of British households no longer pay the bbc poll tax, why not join them?

[@robtheplod]

Simply cancel your Direct Debits, don't waste your time contacting the BBC to 'declare no licence needed' as you are not legally obliged to inform/talk to anyone at the BBC/TVL or fill in any forms (it just helps BBC admin which they use to delay you). If you do fill out their forms or talk to them they have one purpose - to be so vague and misleading that they make you doubt your legal right to cancel. Then sit back and read with amusement the ever desperate monthly letters as they behave like an unhinged clingy ex! - they'll send fake threats of 'Visit Authorised', 'under investigation' and 'last chance to get licensed' to scare you into buying a licence you don't require - just ignore/bin these comical, misleading begging letters from an organisation that still thinks its the 1950's and it has some sort of legal authority. Utter shame on the UK Government for allowing the BBC an exemption to send harassing mail to those obeying the law (ask your MP why they allow it!). Join the 80,000 people A MONTH now reaching their lightbulb moment and cancelling! In the very unlikely event a salesman visits DO NOT talk to them - even to give your name, just say 'not interested' and close the door to these commission based sales people who are probably ex traffic wardens - they have no legal rights/powers whatsoever despite what they may tell you/imply with their flashy lanyard! Just watch catch-up services (who watches live now anyway?) and no iPlayer (again, no loss as it's just preachy dross) and bingo, you saved yourself £169 every year - it is SO easy! Remember if you listen to Radio (by anyone, even the BBC!) then no licence needed.

[@ozbolli]

Stop paying your tv licence I swear to you *nothing* will happen! I haven’t paid one for twenty years and every now and then I get a knock but just don’t answer the door.

[@DrPangloss]

500,000 + 1. I've just cancelled.

[@waynekerrr9027]

Plus 2

[@_J.F_]

I cancelled my TV licence over a year ago because I utterly disagree with everything BBC stands for and simply refuse to support them with licence money.

[@barryyeatman5341]

the license fee a tax on the poor

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

How so, everyone regardless of income pays the same. Don't watch live TV then you won't have to pay for it.

[@jsrides2065]

Needs to be like the other channels I’d never pay for a tv licence again

[@paulcawley6330]

Cancelled mine due to the lack of impartiality and biased reporting on news. Also the salaries are ridiculous and I'm not prepared to contribute.

[@bigglestornado3882]

We cancelled years ago!! When bojo said he was going to scrap the fee and didn't we stopped paying!

[@kelvinmynard8834]

Don't pay it's a vicious tax

[@colinfrancis7229]

I cancelled two years ago as I stopped watching the absolute crap they churn out. The BBC could fix its problems overnight if they showed things that people want to watch, and stopped paying average people superstar wages.

[@stevejacobs9320]

And Lineker will be the first to say he earns every penny!

[@nheather]

BBC don't want to go the subscription route because they know that it would only raise a fraction of the £3.5bn that they enjoy today. A really successful subscription service in the UK will have 15 million viewers. If the BBC were to achieve that level of subscriptions (and spoiler, they won't, not even close) they would have to charge £19 per month to match the £3.5bn they enjoy today. No way can they charge that much, I reckon it would need to be between £5 and £10 to attract subscribers, and even at £5 they won't get 15 million subscribers.

[@TotoToto-wj5ef]

Referring to audience as ‘ the great unwashed ‘ is disgusting. Where would they be without the audience !!!

[@AC-tn9hg]

£500,000 salary, no way am I footing the bill for their greed. Not paying! And have never paid!

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

But nobody complains when some African footballer gets that a week, another problem with this country is football.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

It won't stop those 500k from getting reminders on a regular basis. Imagine the money wasted by the TV Licensing company.

[@johnredfern7286]

10000 licenses to pay Gary Lineker's salary is so ridiculous.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Almost 8,000 British families are needed just to pay Lineker. In 2019 The Sunday Times calculated he was paid over £14,000 an hour.

[@NicholasRoss-l7u]

scrap the BBC

[@davidc7759]

Labour will bail their mates out.

[@jimbo-yv5jh]

Liniger tried to move to ITV last year and they told him to do one.

[@spezzington]

Linekars salary is very suspicious. What the hell does he do??

[@pabo-qv3nx]

F all just like the toss djs who think their funny. Don't watch the bbc nor listen to the radio stations. Only time I listened to the bbc radio stations when I was at work at a real shit place. Listening to the radio did my head in and I wouldn't watch the SHITE bbc CHURNS out either. Hardly watch any TV.

[@RonaldShea5680]

The sickening greed of the bbc and it's employees is truly nauseating.

[@auldyin8368]

If they stopped producing utter crap, maybe more folk would watch?

[@nathanb2882]

You could actually get rid of these presenters altogether and just show the meat of what is happening directly. Nobody wants their constant left-wing banter interrupting the action anyway

[@jonellis5216]

Git rid of it all together simply rubbish. Cancel you licence today .

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Why on Earth is an ex-footballer being paid so much?

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

Time the BBC went the way of the Dodo.

[@barbaraneville5036]

£ 82,000,000 lost licence revenue

[@nickjung7394]

The licence tax should only be paid if you watch BBC!

[@chris-io1ki]

Defund the BBC. Time to abolish this stealth tax that is called the unfair licence fee.

[@icdgyixifyinstereo]

Many of us have abolished it ourselves.

[@adammarshall9077]

I would go to prison then pay for this don't pay it i never will pay

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

If you received a prison sentence for not having a tv license you could sit in prison without needing a license , the irony lol

[@adammarshall9077]

@@johnsmith-bx4rn I just can't pay for this crap the BBC rip people of it is time they pay us for ones

[@Evilc-dq3kf]

Cancel the Biased Broadcasting Cretins.

[@reubenjuster627]

They say Gary Lineker is popular. He isnt FOOTBALL is popular you put any half decent presenter on the show and im sure viewing will increase. I watch match of the day in spite of Gary Lineker

[@icdgyixifyinstereo]

If you continue to pay for a TV licence, then you are complicit in the systematic intimidation of the poor and elderly. Cancel it today.

[@normanj1975]

Lineker wanted to move from the BBC and no one would touch him.

[@thebritishindian1]

The BBC license fee is optional, and I’m happy to see people finally taking action and stop paying

[@ReubenAnkers]

Rob pensioners to pay Gary linekar over a million, absolute fcukin joke ❤

[@devilmyke]

Over a million a year ?! Thats so ridiculous lol..give some new people a chance

[@rbee3936]

Gary Lineker used to work for BT Sports as well as the BBC - don't know whether he still does...

[@HenrySlade-i7r]

it's not difficult, he is not worth no where near that, he is not pretty good he is average.

[@simonhawkins1892]

All broadcasters all more left wing than 50's Moscow. We're all tired of it

[@richardlloyd2589]

The question isn’t “what is Garry worth on the open market?” it is “why can’t the captive audience be presented to by a much cheaper presenter?”

[@lloyd.8272]

40 years old and never had a Tv licence 😂

[@charleshart6992]

The big issue is that The BBC apologising for the problems with Strictly and giving Edwards a £40 grand pay rise, does not sit comfortably with the people paying the tv tax! The corporation has brushed these issues under the carpet yet again! Jimmy Saville all over again! They get away with it every time!

[@El.Cid17]

Who in their right mind would give a pay rise to someone, not working? OK could have said you'll get a rise when you return.

[@ianbennett1491]

Huw Edwards.Its criminal.

[@pinxtownington4645]

On the brink is not good enough when it's forced to sing for the supper

[@adamschoenrock927]

Cancelled our licence this month. It was embarrassing how hard they tried to make me stay. Do you watch live KZbin, live Netflix, have you seen our new iplayer offerings etc. Was in the phone for 10 minutes before he said I was eligible to cancel 🤬

[@uniquevideosUk]

Well they've done this to themselves! We the "non-washers" cant afford to pay a £1million salary & especially to ppl who dislike us anyways.

[@kevincorbett-x9n]

I don’t watch live tv put licence up more to cover people who don’t watch

[@georgemacellaro6713]

What the f##k doe Gary Lineker do, that makes him worth £1.5 million .

[@pabo-qv3nx]

F all ,what do the radio djs do also? I was forced to listen to the radio when I was at work many years back. The music was crap and so was the djs yapping thinking they were funny. One of the djs was Scott mills effin annoying like all of them and back then 2012 he was on 200k plus per year. We should not pay for something we don't use. I'd rather be TORTURED slowly by the Mexican mafia than watch or listen to the bbc.

[@ptatpc7925]

In October 2023 the BBC paid Andrew Flintoff £9m for 2 years lost wages after his accident. This was paid by his employer BBC Ltd, and the Beeb trumpeted that it was ok because 'the licence payer didnt foot the bill'. Two main issues here, 1, How many other salaries, if ever disclosed, will make Linekers look like small change, and 2, Im not sure when BBC Ltd ownership was taken away from the licence payer, given all the assets that were used to create it had been funded by the licence fee over decades.

[@richardroulstone-roberts8598]

Think it BBC Ltd was to funnel licensing deals the now gone DVD sales, and separate it from BBC charter, so can bloody well waste whatever they want without oversight. Be happy to see it collapse.

[@swagmanandy]

It couldn't possibly be because what they show is $#1t€ by any chance could it?

[@KevinField-w6p]

i will not get another license will just di catch up

[@bill1952]

I was shocked when I realised my TV worked just fine without a licence. lol 🤣

[@StephenStocks-e1e]

Quite easy just don’t pay the bbc tax and don’t answer the door to them . They can’t break in don’t answer the door or send information when they send threatening letters just just file all correspondence From them straight to the recycling bin