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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I don't see why they are that essential anyway - people watch match of the day for the football not for the talking (which is hopelessly biased and bland anyway)
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To replace a DJ you just need somebody who can talk and is irritating. There’s a few people with those qualifications in my house, but nobody I’d put up front for United
I’m not against high profile personalities getting played a lot, I just think the BBC shouldn’t be paying over a million a year for somebody who could do the job well and offer a lot better value. No doubt it’s a lot more complicated than that though.....
Those of us with no interest in Zoe Ball, Eastenders and whatever other crap they make can spend our money elsewhere without being branded a licence dodging criminal
And they wouldn't last 5 years subjected to proper market forces.
I haven't had a license for over a decade. And won't be in the future either.
In fairness, you could do what countries like Denmark have done and strip that out and make it publically funded media. Everything else is by subscription. You could argue that the BBC's back catalogue was funded by the taxpayer so why is most of it on Britbox which is a subscription service?
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Commercial exploitation of content subsidises creation of new content so it seems like a fairly sensible thing to do.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Talk to senior Beeboids and you get the impression that they consider their organisation to be a central pillar of the nation - if the Beeb falls, so will the UK.
Programmes about cooking, tat in people's attics and dancing don't quite support that theory, but they will be the last people to acknowledge it.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
But here's the thing. Mrs Brown's Boys. I don't know a single person who admits to liking it. Not one. Literally not one. But its insanely successful. 7 million views on Christmas day successful. Its undeniably popular.
Viewed in that context, I can entirely believe the Beeb when they say that the Linekers, Shearers, and Balls of the world pull in an audience. The public as a whole cannot be judged by your own personal anecdote. There's 60m+ of us.