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    Thousands 'cancelling' BBC TV Licence ahead of April's change
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    Thousands ‘cancelling’ BBC TV Licence ahead of April’s change

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    2. CastleofWamdue on

      if I look at who owns all the streaming services, I am more ever more thankful for the BBC.

    4. nbarrett100 on

      My favorite kind of journalism: copying and pasting five tweets and then putting the word “thousands” in the headline with no source to back it up…  

    5. Due-Rush9305 on

      I am curious how much the BBC spends on sending out threatening letters and occasional enforcers, although I have yet to experience that. I get about a letter a month, and before anyone says you can just tell them you don’t need one, I did, and it was 3 months before I started getting the letters again, this time with my name on it. Although they have reverted back to the legal occupier again.

    6. outsideruk on

      I look to who is most keen to see the BBC defunded and I am refreshed in my desire to see it properly funded and maintained. The left and right both shriek shrilly about bias and propaganda from the news, so that’ll do for me.

      There’s plenty which is paid for by tax which we can claim not to use, that’s just the nature of the system in a country. Keeping the BBC’s funding out of the wider pool helps to maintain standards and independence, but it’s still a collective responsibility of, and benefit to, the country.

    7. BriefTele on

      I tried posting about cancelling mine on one sub and it got deleted.

      Democracy and FOS are all subject to in-tent consensus, it seems, while everyone knows that in a tent full of idiots, there’s always room for at least one more…

    9. steepleton on

      every day of trump makes me thankful for the BBC

      you let money men own the media, you get musk and murdoch not lord reith

    11. swolleninthecolon on

      We need to block the ‘placename+live’ style websites they are useless clickbait farms, a long way from journalism

    12. Leytonstoner on

      Sure, you can stop buying a TV Licence but the BBC is not a subscription service so you can’t ‘cancel’ a TV Licence. Lazy journalism.

    14. Bonfalk79 on

      BBC won’t be getting a penny of my money for all their sanewashing of US politics. Not a chance.

    15. leighleg on

      I’ve not paid mine for over a decade, I don’t miss live TV, or BBC iplayer. If they had anything worth watching I might be tempted to pay, but not at what they are charging. Also if I wanted to watch a BBC show I would get family to record it on either dvd or vhs and then watch it legally.

    16. JackCoull on

      Am I missing something or is the only change the price rising by a whole £5 per annum? The pension credit thing was already baked in since it was cut for over 75s

      I do not and will not pay it to begin with, but if you already have and use it, cancelling over a fiver is ridiculous

      Article headline made it sound like some update to the law akin to requiring it for watching YouTube or something like has already been floated

    20. MopoFett on

      I got no issue with the TV license as it provides content I want and BBC radio 6 is a broadcast I listen to every day an I don’t ever want that to go.

    24. nffcevans on

      The BBC genuinely makes my life better and more informed, with its self reflection & balance. It isn’t perfect but my word we cannot lose it.