Half A Million Cancel Their BBC License Fee

[@keegan773]

I’m not going to pay £169.50 to be insulted by the BBC almost on a daily basis. After all I can get that at home for free.

[@federalreservewolflegend3523]

Boom....

[@pandaDotDragon]

😅

[@fucku2b]

wtf how much?

[@Sanderford]

Married, are we? 😂 No, but seriously, good call. I certainly wouldn't pay for a license to use my own TV set.

[@George57]

😂😂

[@captainplatinum]

Here’s to the next 500k cancellations 👏👏

[@romystumpy1197]

The BBC can get the gold button from you tube

[@christinenorwood695]

Doing mine tomorrow's

[@timg1246]

​@@christinenorwood695Just a reminder.....

[@sandhyagokhale247]

😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@tituscrow4951]

I cancelled mine after the Corbyn campaign & the way it was diabolically reported on. Never regretted it.

[@nobody.6451]

Imagine paying for propaganda .

[@megamonalithic3353]

Yep, the juicy stuff is behind paywalls 😂😂 Hilarious

[@DesertObserver491]

Agreed. But gotta admit, lot better than paying for a genocide

[@ChristianoRodríguez-h3k]

Imagine that I had diarrhea from happiness 😂

[@edeledeledel5490]

Any visual media provider supplies product packed with propaganda.

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@DesertObserver491 What makes you think that the BBC contributes money for genocide. Now Hamas - there's an organisation that actually has genocide as its main purpose.

[@mximxi1069]

They should be refunding everyone who's paid for the last 10 years when they probably haven't watched a thing on the BBC

[@Omar-kw5ui]

Would rather pay that licence fee to the NHS. The NHS could use an extra 4.1358 Billion. The British propaganda and genocide defence cooperation don't deserve anything.

[@lamueldagon7618]

100%

[@MrXlee1967]

NHS also covers isrea-lie, this is why there is no money in the UK NHS.

[@colinriches1519]

Totally agree.

[@fozzieandflup]

The NHS is a killing machine

[@gary8306]

What genocide is that???

[@DamoSuzuki66]

When I called the BBC to cancel earlier this year, I was asked for the main reason why, I told them it was mainly due to their disgusting stance on Palestine and got the response "fair enough!"

[@robertjones3189]

The problem is when the BBC ends the American takeover of our media will accelerate, do you think that will help?

[@hcspero]

@@robertjones3189it already has, wake up.

[@robblake6804]

​@@robertjones3189america wont exist for much longer much like the UK. Those media organisations you speak of are working for the UN

[@RainAndRay]

I think the hope is that the BBC will move away from biased and obviously skewed coverage if people make it clear they don't want it.

[@Wykesidefruitmachine]

​@@robertjones3189BBC is a third world takeover, don't care.

[@TheWolfe83]

Bye bye bbc this is what you get for your corruption

[@JoeEbitDa]

If we lose the BBC, it is us that lose out. Other media outlets will be the only source left and we will have to pay even more for it.

[@brianwilson49]

presumably you say the same about the church, the police, our education systems, our armed forces etc etc

[@TheWolfe83]

@@brianwilson49 I do as a matter of fact.

[@111moonshadow]

​@@brianwilson49I would say exactly that........

[@ianbennett1491]

​@@brianwilson49Shut up Brian.

[@EcoSailor]

I agree with you and I'm 64. I haven't owned a TV for almost 25 years and it's truly liberating.

[@George57]

Me neither. I’ve never had a licence and never intend to . And I’m 63

[@onepartyroule]

25 years wow, so much has happened in Eastenders since then.

[@EcoSailor]

@@onepartyroule is dirty Den back from the dead ..........again? 🤣😂🤣

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

Hilarious ogden isn't on coronation street or Albert tatlock.

[@EcoSailor]

@@JohnPark-xf2gq If that's a cultural reference it's wasted on me.

[@Xandermonkey]

Didn’t cancel mine, just stopped paying it. Since then they’ve spent more than the licence fee sending me letters and visits where they leave you an intimidating note through your door. I don’t watch tv or use any bbc services, but I refuse to declare I won’t watch it. There are millions of pay for services in the world, and I don’t have to declare I don’t want any of those.

[@robtheplod]

Best way... you don't need to inform anyone, just cancel your direct debit

[@simonwaldock9689]

Perhaps if the BBC stopped transmitting garbage, this trend might reverse.

[@SirAmicVarze]

I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised that the public is waking up to the BBCs bias. Hopefully more and more cancel the license fee.

[@Tao_Tology]

And then you'll get your free to access news from........?

[@Fred-t2w]

​@@Tao_Tologyrumble. Or youtube. Bbc is just propaganda

[@johnholmes8178]

@@Tao_Tology GBNews 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tao_Tology]

@@johnholmes8178 ......is not a news channel.

[@Pringlelover]

@@Tao_TologyFree to access? Hello, you have to pay a license fee for the BBC. On other channels the news is free to access because you don’t have to pay a license fee.

[@zarkovian]

The main thing that annoys me about the BBC is how patronising it is; it is so dumbed down and clearly thinks the population is composed of morons. Perhaps it is, but chasing them down to the bottom is not the solution, especially for a publicly funded broadcaster.

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Indeed their documenties are dumbed down. They repeat the same thing over and over again. I stopped paying subscription 10 years ago.

[@nightlordAL]

👌

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

BBC's where humanity went wrong

[@JoeEbitDa]

@@ConstructiveMinds100 Does that mean you stopped watching them 10 years ago? I suspect not!

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

The BBC was fine until the tories destroyed it.

[@ImMigrant98086]

BBC does not act independently and impartially. Even if it did, it is too expensive for the value it provides.

[@marumaru6084]

To be fair thats not hard they provide no value.

[@robertjones3189]

What are you comparing it with?

[@FART-REPELLENT]

Their top staff like Liniker are paid way too much £1,300,000!; he or his replacement should be paid £500,000K; they are beyond greedy.

[@JoeEbitDa]

Too expensive? The BBC license fee is £169 the lowest cost sky package is £228 for nothing more than biased garbage.

[@ImMigrant98086]

@@JoeEbitDa "for the value it provides" There are better freer NEWS sources and there are better cheaper streaming services like netflix, amazon prime or dinsey+. Sky is also not worth it if that's what you want me to say.

[@chumabanjwa4662]

Thank you for reminding me to cancel my licence. Now it's 500k+1!

[@Izzymill]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it is liberating once it is done

[@Randomest_Stories]

❤

[@jay90374]

Just stop paying, let them waste a bunch of money threatening you while you completely ignore them! It's even more satisfying 😉😄😄

[@petercrawford2912]

​@@jay90374I spoke to a.barrister about it he said u cannot go to prison for not having a tv.licence or not paying council tax

[@jasonsmith1158]

DEFUND THE BBC !!! Cancel your TV licence . Thank you ❤ 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@squizzlygrirrel6227]

Any organization that needs to threaten people with legal action to get their funding needs to go. how is it legal to treat anyone without a TV as being guilty?

[@w00dyblack]

oh yeah the letters are unreal. how is that even legal ? what other business hound you and threaten you month after month until to buy their product. they go straight in the bin. bloody cheek

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Especially now when the news are digital which means the know what channels you watch.

[@freddymzungu]

Single mothers with children have been imprisoned for not paying the license fee. The British jobsworth can be such a bastard.

[@YorickReturns]

"Any organization that needs to threaten people with legal action to get their funding needs to go." I didn't realise that Novara viewers were so free-market!

[@BoronAlloy]

@@ConstructiveMinds100”They” don’t know what channels you watch. Only viewing the iPlayer app, would “they” have captured your IP address, which could be connected with the address the router is located.

[@susannapavelkova1265]

I stopped watching bbc after the disgraceful support for the illegal Iraq invasion. Never paid a licence after that.

[@eddieharris6004]

Seem to recall the church of England were left wanting also....

[@albertroundtree8546]

After the Iraq war I gave away my tv and have never regretted my decision. People get very irate when I say that the BBC is state controlled media.

[@keithbessant]

I can't remember which channel it was, but I was suspicious of the coverage as soon as that war was declared. it had a rolling red and white banner showing the words 'War on Terror' over and over for hours on end. The brainwashing of the public mind couldn't have been more blatant, and yet many wouldn't have noticed. and after the initial success, there was Andrew Marr saying that Tony Blair had been vindicated and proven all his critics wrong. How hollow that is now. How could anyone trust anything he says after that?

[@blacklightning7570]

Wait wait wait. Don't you have them licence people coming to your house check if you have a tv.

[@Hellfire99666]

@@blacklightning7570that was years ago, they’ve not done that in a long time.

[@helllznnooo7179]

I’m Canadian and grew up with my father religiously watching BBC news every night at 6 pm. As a young adult and later an adult, I would read BBC news first thing every morning. I deleted the app in Nov 2023. I feel like a fool for ever thinking they were an impartial news source. The media’s take on Gaza has really shed a light on how much garbage the public has been fed. I am now an avid subscriber of KZbin channels like this one. Just two cents from a friendly Canadian.

[@warrenchu5752]

Gaza did it for you? Did you miss saville? Covid? Iraq? My word 🤣🤣

[@johnholmes8178]

@@warrenchu5752 'miss saville' 😂

[@cathydavies3526]

We were all fooled.. the "Auntie Beeb " personna was rolled out while behind the scenes it was a Right Wing Establishment propaganda tool.. snd for decades whitewashed Israeli crimes in occupied Palestine and blamed Palestinians..

[@cehaem2]

Don't like the BBC? Great, one day you will have GBNews instead.

[@gee_emm]

@@cehaem2We already have GB News. And Channel 4, Novara, DoubleDown, Democracy Now. We have choices. We are choosing.

[@blackmagic6]

I used to be a TV addict. Today I don't own a TV and I couldn't be happier. Looking back, I realise how controlled I was by the national narrative I used to be. Now, as long as I've got my computer and an internet connection ....... I'm fine.

[@Izzymill]

same

[@johnzee691]

same here, probably pushing 10 years. everyone that gets behind a television camera just like sheeple, if your not one they put you down.......

[@susannapavelkova1265]

@@blackmagic6 me too xx

[@AsalBasalTum]

I will never get over the emotional damage British television has caused me. They need to pay us compensations for watching bbc.

[@JohnClark-ew8dh]

Fund an organisation that uses that money to pay Laura Kuenssberg? No thanks

[@nas84payne]

Right! 😂😂😂

[@w00dyblack]

lol

[@whtwht]

100%

[@Geokinkladze]

Hey quit it with the antisemitism

[@m1a1-own4elnm]

Nobody should be paying a dime for the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation.

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

No they pay pounds sterling.

[@elainewojnicki9610]

I am probably one of the few people that don't mind paying the TV licence as i think the BBC (other than news) put out some decent programme's. I don't know how the Licence fee compares to other subscrition channels as i don't subscribe to any.

[@tobleramone]

What's an example of the bullshit?

[@Pringlelover]

@@tobleramone The whole effing thing.

[@tobleramone]

@@Pringlelover Anything specific?

[@w00dyblack]

£300k, £400k salaries - thats obscene isnt it. Ive not had a tv license for about 10 years now. They'd have to pay ME to watch that crap

[@cehaem2]

That's the market rate. If you don't pay these people they will just go to one of the private broadcasters.

[@timg1246]

​@@cehaem2It really is not the market rate. Other radio stations do not pay that much. Lineker gets £1.3 million. No one watches MOTD because of him. The BBC is starstruck.

[@cehaem2]

@@timg1246 Commercial stations don't have to disclose how much their stars are making. Still, reports indicate that some of the GMB presenters earn above 700k p.a. with one particular presenter hovering at around 1m. Do you seriously think people at the BBC sign off these contracts without hard data and market analysis? I'm sure you would do MOTD for 60k but the problem is - you are not Gary Lineker. MOTD is very prestigious and the BBC as the national broadcaster wants to have some prolific names on the show.

[@timg1246]

​@@cehaem2No one at all watches MOTD because of Lineker. No one. From what I can see, GB News pay nowhere near the sums you are suggesting.

[@damiendye6623]

​@@cehaem2well good the BBC should be a decent play for apprentices and people starting out not a place to pay millions for repeats, low quality show and properganda news. It's the same with there TV, radio and online presence

[@everythingrandom9653]

i cancelled 2 years ago, and now wonder why I didn't do it 10 years ago

[@KnightRider872]

Jon Wedger Ex Metropolitan Police officer stated he wrote to the BBC he will pay his licence fee IF they will put in writing his money will not be used for paedophilia. The BBC cancelled their own bill! What does that tell you?

[@Warp75]

Not watched or listened to the BBC in 7 years. Garbage 🗑️

[@forestsunset9617]

Autechre, nice.

[@m1a1-own4elnm]

❤

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Longer than that.

[@Warp75]

@@ConstructiveMinds100 I’m happy for you

[@sososoprano1]

I watch very little, but I did watch the first night of the Proms and very glad I did. The piece Hallelujah Sim by Ben Nobuto, a BBC commission, was the opposite of garbage. Made me laugh and made me cry a little too. It was fantastic. I Ioved it! This is one of the things the BBC does best and what makes it valuable. A far cry from the abomination that is the BBC news and current affairs.

[@grahamhorne6956]

Scrap the licence and replace it with a subscription service. Im don't have a license. Let those that want it pay for it.

[@JC-ce1ks]

I'd rather they use the Channel 4 model because there's still a few BBC programmes I occasionally watch, but there's no way I'd subscribe to them while they're paying people like Laura Kuenssberg hundreds of thousands of pounds a year!

[@tslondon422]

They won’t do this, or will avoid it. They know that their revenue with TANK, because now they use predatory tactics to get people to pay what is effectively a tv tax. Once they have to go legit, people will opt out (they don’t think they can now).

[@KemPeck1701]

the government will not want to change their propaganda arm (it IS what the BBC was set up to do during WW1).. i tell you now.. it'll go on a media tax for your internet.. or.. your council tax

[@TheFactHub]

@@JC-ce1ks maybe they should make people pay extra for laura and pay her out of those willing to support her show specifically

[@robertjones3189]

Same for the Health service, and post. End universal public services.

[@Algolxxxxxx]

Cancelled my TV licence a month ago. I will not fund a tool of the state that's instructed to be an indifferent bystander to the genocide taking place in Gaza.

[@lemcakes32422]

BBC is more balanced than the other outlets from Murdoch and Farage

[@daftgowk1]

​@@lemcakes32422agree, but it's still tainted. Another public service ruined by the English vote, hey ho

[@keirmitchell5560]

@@lemcakes32422 stop drinking and so it should be.

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

What do you mean being a bystander. It's not meant to take a position.

[@GetGwapThisYear]

@@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn the BBC isn’t neutral though. They often take a right-leaning stance, and has openly smeared, or allowed for open smearing of public figures, while giving disproportionate amounts of screen time to Fromage and co. That’s not indifference.

[@dotolaj3263]

I’ve boycotted the olympics - for the offensive opening ceremony, and see no reason for bbc now.

[@abumaalik9272]

Bbc should be shut down

[@JoeEbitDa]

No

[@cehaem2]

Nigel Farage and Richard Tice like that!

[@Chris-wz5yd]

​@@JoeEbitDaI believe it was a statement, not a question.

[@Chris-wz5yd]

​@@cehaem2Why ? They get lots of airtime and fakenewsery. The only place you get untainted news is on the internet.

[@JoeEbitDa]

@@Chris-wz5yd I don't really care what you believe in, each to their own.

[@Lenny2Lux]

These should be a max salary cap at the BBC. Why should any of them get 6 figures.

[@notknown6605]

Because otherwise they would work elsewhere.

[@sds7870]

@@notknown6605 good they are totally useless

[@cehaem2]

@@sds7870 Great, so let's lose millions of viewers, but hey, one sds7870 will tune in every night!

[@timg1246]

​@@notknown6605No one watches MOTD to see Lineker. They would watch whoever was providing the after match comments. The BBC gets starstruck.

[@damiendye6623]

​@@timg1246who watches motd just read it all online plenty of sites give results and commentary

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

I'm going to cancel mine this year, I'm sick of BBC news propaganda, and wall to wall repeats. I shan't play this year. I shall bin the TV. I'm 77, by the way.

[@DSDJ1986]

I don't know if your statement about binning the T.V. is literal or figurative but if it's still in good working order, then might I suggest asking members of your family if any of them would like it? If you ask & none want it, ask friends if any of them would like it, & if no, then consider giving it to a charity?

[@nas84payne]

I stopped watching mainstream news in the early 2010’s. Been absolutely refreshing not having that garbage pumped into my brain 😀

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

@@DSDJ1986 it was figurative, it's a Devon saying for getting rid of something, but not necessarily to the dump.😉

[@Fercough]

TV generally is guff.

[@whtwht]

Tell Lie Vision. Definitely not worth it

[@ChristinaGXL]

Why the heck would anyone want to pay for endless Flog It reruns?

[@MisterTea123]

Remember when they ignored South Africa's case at the ICJ, but livestreamed the ENTIRE Israeli defence the day after?!!

[@cjthebeesknees]

Yeah that was truly disgusting.

[@brummiali1998]

​@@cjthebeesknees Yeah saw that I did notice They knocked me friends door She opend window And got out the hose pipe And she start spraying Go away disease go go go go Dont mess around with japanese

[@HarukiYamamoto]

We remember. We will never forget.

[@brandonscott9747]

Why do you hate Jews?

[@brandonscott9747]

@@cjthebeeskneesWhy do you hate Jews?

[@JulieLevinge]

Astonished that anyone could think BBC Is impartial??????

[@JohnJones-k9d]

Both sides say it’s biased. So it may well be.

[@summer5145]

One side is genuine, the other side are hasbara trolls @user-tt6il2up4o

[@ilia2178]

I wonder how many people keep paying for their TV license because they are intimidated by TV licensing. They treat you like a criminal and send you overly threatening letters just for refusing to pay for something you don't need.

[@whtwht]

Apparently it's against the law though

[@ilia2178]

@@whtwht It is if you watch live TV without paying but a lot of people don't, yet they are still too scared to cancel because you'll have people knocking on your door and threatening you with letters.

[@yara438]

When i was in the uk as an international student, i was not aware of this tax. Heck i receieved the threatening mail as soon as i moved in and i didn't even have a Tv yet! I was so scared that i might be kicked out of the country i quickly paid the tax. Even though i was never planing on watching live tv, i was planning on getting a tv and i assumed the tax was if i had a tv and was not aware that it is for the BBC. I think they really rely on people being unaware and bully/ scare people into paying.

[@YorickReturns]

Novara viewers are coming out against taxation!

[@x-marks-x5137]

@@ilia2178 may I ask a question as A Dutchie, so if you don’t pay, are you then just being cut off from being able to watch? or is it still available to watch the bbc and its services? How does this go?

[@piez122]

How the fuck are 24 million households still paying licence fee in 2024?!

[@lyndallspagnoletti6850]

Are you ideologically opposed to a publicly funded broadcaster, or you just don't like the BBC in its current form? A lot of good has come out of the publicly funded model. The BBC isn't perfect and things have changed dramatically in the age of streaming but I think people don't know what they've got until it's gone. It should be reformed not thrown away.

[@PeppermintPatties]

Yes, I'm nervous about binning the BBC. I'm not happy with lots of it. It's not impartial. I hate its deference to the monarchy and 'talent'. I don't use most of it, but I can't stand the idea of American telly taking over, and seeing the quality of TV in other countries, I feel we're lucky, but it should move with the times. I guess there's KZbin though...😆

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

​@@lyndallspagnoletti6850when you say reformed I hope you mean taken out of the grasp of tories including reform Ltd.

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@lyndallspagnoletti6850The right wing and corporate 'media' interests are VERY keen for free-to-access news and information not to be available. Which _should_ give folk pause for thought.

[@faustoferrari4303]

@@lyndallspagnoletti6850 Someone with a modicum of sense. Though I'm not sure what form reform could take that wouldn't alienate a significant part of our fractured society.

[@nativestrong7253]

How dare you refuse State mandated social engineering!

[@YoutubeCollection863]

Never have and never will pay for a BBC TV License

[@elwynj5379]

It’s a tv license, not a bbc tv license.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I gave up my TV license as soon as I found out that Capita are paid to administer it. I’m disabled and Capita tried to stitch me up in a PIP assessment.

[@adammitxhell2932]

Cancelled over 10 years ago and I'm never paying EVER again!

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

Never ever getting back to gether.l think that might make a good title for a song.

[@grandemaestro3820]

Cancelled bbc, amazon prime and netflix due to gaza. Havnt needed it for months.

[@faustoferrari4303]

What have Amazon and Netflix got to do with Gaza? They aren't news providers

[@sueparnell3818]

Same😊

[@skeppsica]

Thanks for the reminder to cancel my prime trial 😅

[@Randomest_Stories]

🎉

[@speedy210276]

Cancel your licence now !

[@johnchoice1371]

The BBC pay their staff huge salaries. We are the ones making them rich.

[@barryhoward2174]

Cancelled my licence when Cameron started installing his mates into the top jobs. Not to mention sycophantic coverage of Royals. Forced me to search out alternative sources of journalism and so glad I did. Watching any of the MSM now, particularly the coverage of Gaza and Ukraine, is unbearable

[@andybeans5790]

I cancelled my TV license back in 2010 when I stopped watching TV. I used to think the BBC were fairly impartial then, but the Tories have tainted it since

[@celebral01]

Haha what a joke, you have to be seriously left wing to think the BBC is not. The programs are a joke with their token LGBTQIA+ person on every show.

[@harlequinems]

BBC was a good source of neutral information until they were reporting on too much of the tory corruption and incompetence, then Cameron said he would revoke the licensing and the BBC execs immediately began targeting only Labour mps instead

[@warrenchu5752]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Forget Saville then?

[@IndieGems2]

@@warrenchu5752 I don't get it?

[@Geokinkladze]

So you thought they were impartial when they propagandised labour's invasion of Iraq?

[@lewa3910]

I Haven't watched them and have cancelled mine nearly a decade ago, glad to see more people following suit now

[@DSDJ1986]

​@@AcademiaFeraz When it comes to reporting what is supposed to be the news, it should be objective & factual. So in that regard, they don't say what many people "want them to say". 　 　 In works of fiction they can "say" whatever they like. Their nature documentaries are high quality for the most part & set the industry standard.

[@tarqu1no39]

@@AcademiaFerazIt's as much about the things they don't say and the perspectives they don't cover. Lying by omission is just as effective a way of promoting misinformation than presenting falsehoods.

[@MrRodigan]

Buying a TV licence is like funding the Tory party

[@Raymund-Swales]

Haven't owned a TV for 30 years.

[@SRETRODUDE]

Cancelled my TV licence 3 years ago. Best thing I ever did.

[@GetGwapThisYear]

The BBC was once considered an institution. Now it’s an imposition.

[@nightlordAL]

👌

[@dianecorbin8886]

💯

[@Tao_Tology]

LOL, yes the _unbearable trial_ of supporting free to access news.

[@GetGwapThisYear]

@@Tao_Tology is a fee free?

[@Tao_Tology]

@user-kb2fh7ox5e The Beeb is also faaaaar more than 'just' the tv but you definitely checked that.

[@fliprim]

Former staunch supporter, but Laura K has driven me away.

[@nas84payne]

She’s a good example of the problem with the BBC.

[@brianwilson49]

erm, there's this thing on your tv remote called ‘channel’ - it allows you to choose a different program. duh.

[@UsualYaddaYadda]

And @brianwilson49 you could take your own advice... durrrr.... The above commentator took a moral consumer stance and mentioned it in an appropriate forum. You could find another channel rather than ignorantly snipe here

[@harrynash1346]

@@brianwilson49 yes they should pay for it without watching it you are very smart

[@neilthewheelio]

Agree, she is a prime example of the impartiality of the BBC, It is shameful that she is not reigned in on her constant bias towards the Conservatives. Indicative of a corporation that has lost the trust of the public it is supposed to serve.

[@realhass]

I cancelled mine during covid due to the nonsense was being fed to the general public & I never look back.

[@robmthe1st]

I never had a tv licence because of my disgust at the pea doh ring cover ups. As well as lots of other reasons.

[@roody59]

Exactly. They were complicit in covering up child abuse.

[@Hally_sally]

I cancelled my tv licence a year ago, and I have been happier since. The mainstream media I don't agree with it's messaging . It does not align with me at all.

[@nickbulmer]

Cancelled decades ago .removed the inferred right to access my door from All BBC staff and 3rd party licence inspectors

[@JoeEbitDa]

But still watch live TV?

[@nickbulmer]

@@JoeEbitDa not for decades . No need to

[@Whitepawprint]

How do you do that? I keep getting nasty letters from them

[@thegoodgunner]

​​​​@@Whitepawprintyou can stop the letter if you régister on their site and say you arent interested on buying one ,then letter stop for 2 years If you dont care about them, just bin them,anyone show at your door have no légal right to enter your property,so tell them not inrested by licence and close the door.of course if you own tv make sure they can't visual see it

[@DG-iw3yw]

@Whitepawprint Write on the letters: Return to sender, no tennant at property Or something to this effect and then just stick it in a letter box

[@VOWelAHC]

Have they considered not giving a platform to war criminals in the act of genocide?

[@timg1246]

Yes. Their support for Hamas is appalling.

[@knottybogeye6387]

Remember Israel supplied Argentina with weapons that killed hundreds of British soldiers at the Falklands war, ​@@timg1246

[@pk1645]

Dear me. Just imagine life without Laura Kuenssberg…

[@hsvr]

Imagine if a country like Afghanistan made people pay a tv licence and the uk didn't. They'd be called barbaric

[@MiniDevilDF]

It's something I'd expect from a dictatorship for sure. Laughable in the UK.

[@hens_ledan]

The BBC is *huge*, and *hugely irrelevant*. 30 years ago I served briefly on a BBC local radio advisory committee (never again!), and I told them (back then) that people were switching off as they only wanted to serve the 60+ age group and eventually their listenership would evaporate. Back then they cut all their truly local content (so not truly 'local' at all) and had nothing to say to younger people (so nothing for the next generation). I simply cannot see the point of the BBC as it's currently structured. It could be 25% of the size and be 200% better.

[@davidrabbit2239]

BBC needs to go back to having 2 channels with a license fee of £50.

[@TheMediaMachine]

When I lived in UK, I never paid the TV license. When they sent their many letters and cards with warnings of courts, I trashed them. They didn't get a penny from me.

[@nas84payne]

Gangsta 😁👍

[@lua.c1709]

Absolutely disgusting that a person on a TV show which people have to choose to watch is being paid more than the Prime minister of the UK. But there is a cost of living crisis in the UK and we just got rid of the richest prime minister as well the UK is falling apart is disgusting and disappointing

[@carlmclaren8078]

The British establishment is dying slowly. They just won't accept it, hopefully they'll take a more peaceful approach to foreign affairs before things get too dangerous.

[@a_fortiori_]

I cancelled mine last year and no longer need it 🇵🇸

[@veritysmart]

I was once at BBC studios in London, we were behind a glass sound screen witnessing a live news broadcast and as clips were showing there was an argument taking place between producer and presenter over the numbers. He was advised to state the unverified larger number as it “sounded better” in other words is was more sensationalist. Never trusted them against after that.

[@nas84payne]

That’s some serious tea if true! 😀

[@WipeoutFPV]

I've always been morally opposed to the concept of the licence fee. Forced to pay for a service I don't want.

[@Algolxxxxxx]

You can cancel it.

[@timg1246]

​@@AlgolxxxxxxThen they harrass you every month. Also, it becomes illegal to watch any other channel. Even foreign ones online. It is a bizarre law written for a different era.

[@Algolxxxxxx]

@@timg1246 More and more people have cancelled their TV licences now. That's the trend. The licencing authority simply don't have the resources to harass people on their doorsteps every month. That in itself would consume a lot of money from their end. They're at this time trying to plug up holes on their boat but then another hole appears and another one... while the boat continues to sink. These people use threats to intimidate us. The threat of intimidation is their tool and this threat is greater than the actual execution of it. They need people to 'believe' in the threat in order for it to work. That's their entire game. Don't fall for the trick. They can't do anything and you don't have to let these goons in to survey your living room. If they do show up at your door you don't have to let them in. Just tell them you don't watch anything BBC or any live broadcasts at all so please don't call here again. Not being able to watch live broadcasts is an inconvenience for us and they know that. It's a pathetic attempt to make life awkward so we feel compelled to pay for a licence. Again, don't fall for their tricks. You'll be glad you cancelled your licence and only regret not cancelling it earlier.

[@timg1246]

​@user-kb2fh7ox5eWhy should I have to contact them at all, let alone every two years ? I walked past Asda the other day. The manager grabbed me and started haranguing me for not shopping there. He promised to do the same in two years time.

[@nch6807]

So happy to know people started to wake up and being conscious where they spend their money on. Paying such a high fee for such a rubbish service. DON'T FUND THE PROPAGANDA. Hope for more cancellations to come.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

BBC is run and hosted by, Tories.

[@chaserseven2886]

nice meme

[@ashfield1425]

It is run by whichever government is in at the time as it is government funded. Everything it puts out is garbage.

[@AppleAirsoft]

@@chaserseven2886 Tim Davie is literally a Tory, actually go and read about the reality you live in if you actually can read.

[@lemcakes32422]

most media is controlled by the gov

[@gomperhooblet]

​@@AppleAirsoft>Employs a tory >Must be tory organisation You would not look out of place in the Khmer Rouge

[@carrie4558]

Excellent news! I cancelled mine last year thank goodness. It is a disgrace

[@grahampettit2897]

I would suggest that Laura Kuenssburg has played a large part in people believing that the BBC is biased. Her pro Tory stance is hard to miss

[@brandonscott9747]

Everyone is laughing at you. You know that, right? 🤡🤡🤡

[@nas84payne]

96% for the over-55 watching BBC sounds about right 😀 I haven’t got a tv 😎 Laura Knuessberg in particular is a good example of the problem with the BBC.

[@flubalubaful]

I don't understand people saying they don't have a TV. Do you all not understand how modern TV works. I have a 75inch TV, kids use for games or it is used for streaming. An excellent way to consume content, damn I could watch bbc if I wanted to install it. But to have no TV is aside as it is the best way to really enjoy entertainment.

[@damiendye6623]

​​@@flubalubafulyou know you need reception equipment to get an out side signal but the TV has hdmi etc so acts as a monitor when using it like that it's not a TV. If your not using the broadcasts you don't need one.

[@sandrafrancis3631]

The T.V license is too expensive, it's too much for poorer people to pay, especially if you hardly watch bbc, but you have a TV, then you have to pay, it's wrong! They used to put people in prison for not paying which is outrageous! Now it's a fine, which many never pay. In my view all T.V should be free. Bbc could be like ch 4 which is public broadcasting but runs adverts so it's free! Fine with me! We pay £169 a year just to not watch adverts on one channel! The system needs to change for funding the bbc. The current system is outdated. It's a tax on T.V, it's crazy!

[@eileencritchley4630]

That's because it's a TV license it's even in the name and you can't legally turn on your TV without one. A TV is anything this with a receiver in it that picks up any of our TV stations. So go ahead stop paying it but you better not be watching a TV.

[@sandrafrancis3631]

@eileencritchley4630 you can turn on your TV, and watch catch up TV, but you can't watch any live TV whether it's bbc or Sky which you also pay for, or even watching live TV on youtube, you need a TV licence! It annoys me that if you pay for Sky or some other provider, even if you don't watch the bbc, if you want to watch live TV, you are forced to have a TV licence, which funds the bbc. So you are forced to fund the bbc, even if you hate the bbc, just because you watch other channels live! So, really, we are paying for the bbc to not have adverts ! This is crazy! The bbc could be funded some other way. Like use the lottery to pay for the bbc, or let them run adverts, like channel 4, which is a public broadcasting company paid by adverts and funding, but it's free to us, but it's not because if we watch it live we have to pay for a licence to fund the bbc!! It's a tax on watching TV and should be dropped! 👍

[@eileencritchley4630]

@@sandrafrancis3631 Not completely correct ok The TV license must be obtain that way if you buy a TV from a shop your name has to be taken down. Reason it has a receive in it to receive the tv stations signals. So if the detect van come's and detects you are using the TV as a TV eg it turned on any TV station not just the BBC but any TV channel you are going to get a fine as you Do Not have a TV License. Period. So many people have been caught out because they've thought your way and 'by 'accident' use their remote and hit the wrong set of buttons or hit the up or down curser. It's not worth the chance. Just pay the dam License.

[@Braddeman]

i think if they had a license in my country i would buy a large monitor and hook a google tv to it. Samsung sells some pretty large smart monitors you can buy. essentially a TV without a tuner.

[@eileencritchley4630]

@@Braddeman I have a monitor I use that I plugg my large screen laptop into. make working at it easier but I still if I watch tv on my huge flat screen TV on the wall. Thing is I hardly ever use it since covid as I watch non english tv from all over the world on youtube instead. subtitles are great and it improves what language I'm trying to learn.

[@iancooketapia]

When you get that much money, you really do not know what the value of it is. You see it if you work as a small business and suddenly you work with organizations with "too much money to spare" and lack of strategic talent at the top. You very easily can charge them double, triple, quintuple for the same work and they'll take it. Whereby a small organization would look at the exact same money and think of multiple ways to generate "value". Ideological capture? In group thinking? The exact same philosophy at work that sees a corporation like Activision-Blizzard cut thousands of jobs, axe dozens of profitable projects, and then give a huge bump to executive pay while all workers suffer.

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

When you are paid large sums of money is it any wonder that they all become small state small tax tories. What do they care about the poor people that may watch their crap programs.

[@bonniedrasco8166]

Absolutely not impartial

[@lw1zfog]

millions more cancellations required

[@AGRI84]

Are there still people listening/watching BBC in 2024. If so, why?

[@ØRANGE-YØU]

I do, but I'm in my 40s so... 🤔

[@JC-ce1ks]

The Gladiators remake was ok (or at least they didn't ruin it), I sometimes watch Match of the Day, there's a few older BBC Three shows I like. But it's definitely not worth the licence fee.

[@BurnCKC]

Yeah, Match of the Day.

[@sandrafrancis3631]

If you don't watch bbc but have a TV you have to pay the licence fee by law. It's a tax on T.V! That's what is wrong about it! We pay the licence to not watch adverts on one channel! The other channels are free because they run adverts, which is fine by me! But if you buy a T.V you a meant to pay the licence fee by law! You can get rid of your T.V and watch all channels online except bbc, because that goes through iplayer, which you're meant to have a licence to watch. When logging on to that, they just ask, do you have a licence, you click yes and you're in. I don't know how they check on that? Can't remember if the first time they ask for your address? But you can watch everything else for free, except on demand, which you pay for of course, but you don't need a licence, just a subscription. All T.V should be free! ✌️

[@InputArchive]

@sandrafrancis3631 That's just factually wrong. You have to pay the licence if you watch BBC , BBC catch up, or Live TV. If you have a TV and don't do any of the above - like the majority of younger people these days - you don't need a licence.

[@SDBOGLE]

My TV has been in the garden shed for 4 years now.. free from the lies propoganda and nonsense.

[@robh8814]

You could have just unplugged the Aerial🤣

[@sufmeister786]

Better still donate to a charity if a family member or friend doesn’t want it.

[@damiendye6623]

​@@robh8814why you can get decent 4k monitors without all the spyware to watch KZbin and game with.

[@ØRANGE-YØU]

BBC personalities should be replaced with apprentices and give the money to the Jr Drs ✊

[@cehaem2]

Great, let's just lose viewers!

[@damiendye6623]

​@@cehaem2why it's proven that normal Joe public can do better looking at the quality of some of the KZbin content.

[@cehaem2]

@@damiendye6623 YT is not a broadcasting company with dozen of TV and radio channels. Most YT stuff is just amateurish. I want a public broadcaster.

[@x-marks-x5137]

As someone not from the U.K it’s well known England is one of the poorest countries in the western world (when excluding the London area) the levels of poverty are staggering for a western country so you can forget all the complaining and comments about current world situations as reason for cancellation of payment of the t.v fees, it’s simple economics = poor people can’t afford to spend money on a service they can easily do without.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Good for ya'll Britain. Stick it to em!

[@brizzieleif5258]

TV personalities should earn their money from world wide syndication/ advertising revenue if they're popular enough, not because they're the darling of the BBC.

[@bob-g3e3x]

How much money did the BBC earn selling Top Gear around the world, how much money do they earn selling documentaries all around the world, and the magazines, books and dvd's...?

[@stevejh6630]

I believe those profits don't go to "your BBC", they go to other BBC corporations and are never ploughed back.

[@bob-g3e3x]

@@stevejh6630 There's only one BBC, and it definitely ain't mine....the point is they have always claimed that we must support them because they have no other means of income

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Top Gear. How many innocent people around the world lost lives because of speed driving promoted by Bxx?

[@LdevArt]

the figures in 2020 were they received 3.5 billion pounds from licence payers and a further 1.4 billion from selling their tv programs overseas

[@Norf.F.C.Zoomer]

​@@ConstructiveMinds100yeah lets ban cars to save the climate.

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

​If anyone in the UK still pays the BBC licence they need to stop immediately. No court in the land can argue that they have long ceased to uphold the charter on which they were founded

[@cehaem2]

Nigel Farage supports that!

[@Proudarse]

I haven’t paid them a penny for over a decade! To be honest, I wouldn’t watch their propaganda if they paid me to watch it.

[@neilthewheelio]

Laura Kuenssberg, that is enough reason to ditch the licence fee alone, horrible Tory mouthpiece.

[@gallovidian2151]

Cancelled my licence over twenty years ago now. Nothing missed.

[@Mydigitalepitaph]

I've not watched the BBC since around 2009 (the last place i rented which had a TV). Since owning my home since 2017, i get an annual letter about my lack of a TV license. I regularly tell them i dont have a TV, but they always send me the most passive aggressive letters saying that they need to check my home.

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Passive agressive letters. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@whtwht]

They'll soon be round with their binoculars

[@billybigbollox]

Me too…… I really don’t like being threatened. Especially when I don’t own a TV. They keep threatening to send someone round. I want to meet whoever they send. I’ll put the kettle on and get my toys out to play.

[@Moori2163]

If it wasn't for the sports, Euro's, World Cup, Olympics, Six Nations and Wimbledon i probably would have cancelled my license fee as well.

[@lindachapman5630]

Cancelled for the last two years - DEFUND THIS CORRUPT INSTITUTION

[@darkhorse505]

TV licence should of been scrapped ages ago

[@trulymental7651]

I cancelled mine when they brought out the "fact checkers" . I should have done it around 12 years ago when I realised BBC World News were at Bilderberg. I only miss Doctors.

[@robh8814]

Maybe you should visit one if you liked "Doctors"🤣

[@trulymental7651]

@@robh8814 I actually learned quite a lot from it tbf

[@trulymental7651]

@@robh8814 my replies disappear daily

[@ImmortalRimas]

Hearing that more of the British public are cancelling their TV licence makes me think of that Fifth Element meme where Leeloo is laughing!🤣

[@frixosfriedman7813]

Anyone know why there arent classic and high quality comedies being produced on the bbc like in the old days? Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The Young Ones, comes to mind. If they produced stuff like that maybe id pay a license fee.

[@vanessarealrose5919]

I have not watched BBC in years and for that I worked out I have saved almost £2k and my eyes from their rubbish TV

[@The_Modern_Medusa]

Won't pay for a right wing promotional servicelike the BBC. Almost as bad as paying for gb news.

[@Eagle-eye-pie]

So promoting trans ideology, lgbt extremism, open borders extremism, Islamic extremism, and constantly denigrating and misrepresenting British history and culture. That’s right wing now?

[@Norf.F.C.Zoomer]

Could you explain to me how a company with DEI targets and internships that actively ban white people from applying is "right wing"?

[@adamkarimian7137]

Its time for the charging mechanism to be put to bed

[@Pyramids19]

The fact that we are forced to pay for something we don’t even want ridiculous I’m glad people are not paying anymore

[@littleninj0r]

That's what they get for being a giant Tory mouthpiece 😍

[@crazyman8472]

The peasants are revolting! 🤮

[@guangxidavidliu]

WHAT? You need to pay a fee to hear lies? Shouldn't be other way around?