You think PBS is bad..can you imagine the nation’s #1 TV channel being completely taxpayer-funded? Britons HAVE to pay a tax to the BBC if they want to own a TV! Now “Auntie Beeb” has been caught in a Penn State-style scandal, and it’s only getting worse. The Thatcher-hating UK lefties are crapping themselves right now over this. It makes the phone hacking scandal look like shoplifting!
Yes, I know about that kind of stuff. RTE did (and still does) the same TV-license thing in Ireland.
Funny enough, they still charge less for the license if you have a B/W set versus color. The B/W license is £49 (about $79) while the color license is £145.50 ($231). Imagine Washington DC trying to force something like that on US TV owners, though?
It went on for DECADES.
I'm certain MANY people knew what was going on.
Same withthe Elmo scandal.
Oh, what a surprise a children's entertainer is a pedophile.
What's next? Are we going to hear that a child's party clown is hiding bodies in his crawlspace?
Color me unsurprised.
Britain, until the 1990’s, was happy to pay the licence fee.
We had what was undoubtedly the finest TV in the world, and along with ITV, the BBC was the pinnacle of that. Nobody then and even now can match the scope of the BBC: news, entertainment, current affairs, sport, music, radio, documentaries....
The BBC News in older days was also more impartial and free of the leftist bias (by and large) that it has now.
For its problems and ills, the BBC is still a superb broadcaster, with a range of programming unmatched. It is after all still the world’s biggest broadcaster.
The BBC however has had its day perhaps as a state funded broadcaster. It is the only one left in the UK that is.