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Pleading poverty again. In a true free market this corporation would wither & die. Funny how Amazon, HBO, & Netflix Etc all manage to pay high salaries & turn a profit. Time to scrap the licence fee in my opinion & leave the BBC to market forces. Not interested in people telling me the Licence works out at 23p a day or whatever. They seriously need to get their act together.

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Don’t watch tv live anymore. It’s all dodgy streaming latest cinema movies and palace live, Netflix and amazon film and bbc iplayer.

Apparently he also wants to scrap the free license for over 75s. I predicted this a while ago. Young people are not watching the BBC so their target audience is getting older and of course no longer paying. I have not seen any statistics on this but I suspect someone will have done this and at some point the non paying viewers will be in the majority.

Of course his solution is he wants more money from us. My solution is the BBC needs to respond to the major challenges in broadcasting that face all of the current TV companies not just the BBC.

Some suggestions he might want to consider:

1. Stop over paying your staff in front of and behind the camera. The exodus from the BBC when their salaries became public has not happened because the other TV companies cannot match their salaries. The average person at the BBC normally earns more than their equivalent at one of the other channels. Much noise at the ginger one leaving Radio 2 but one swallow does not make a summer.

2. Stop over staffing. I have spoken to lots of people who work in TV they all say that if it is an OB the BBC turns up with more trucks, equipment and staff than any other company, why?

OB seems to be a particular problem I recently heard a live football match both Radio 5 Live and BBC London had their own commentary teams, why? One couldn't take the feed from the other?

As for the staff who go to the Olympics / world cup enough said.

3. Stop trying to compete with ITV for ratings using celebrity driven shows. I would rather a smaller BBC that focused on high quality documentaries and arts.

I could go on ad nauseum.

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Picking up on Rudi's post I am advocating quality over quantity.

Edited by Badger11 (19 Sep 2018 9.23am)

One more point

Very good. I cleaned the edit to show respect.

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I also understand that the BBC decided NOT to do away with/restrict final salary pensions schemes - which also costs a bit these days!

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Not so. They have a liberal bias, but detest Corbyn and have a clear agenda against him. They seem to be mainly Lib Dem and Blairite types. So liberal, but not particularly left wing.