The TV licence ?

[stona]

With BBC on your CV this is an introduction into any production company. Now why would that be ?Laurie

That is very true. Just recently I was working on the proms up on Glasgow Green and a freelance video technician (or vidiot as we like to call them) referred to his period working for the BBC as "the best thing on my CV."

Cheers

Steve

[Ian M]

One thing that that struck me the other day. I was watching a load of tv on a Danish channel. Wildlife programs. All very good with excellent film work and production. Of the five or six programs I watched, every single one of them was produced by the BBC. So even if you do not wish to pay you licence, because you don't ever watch the BBC you might be watching more of their products than you realise.

As for the licence in general, I agree it is just another way of wringing more money out of people on the premise of "because we can".

A bit off topic, we have cable and we have to purchase "packages" to get the good channels you have to buy the big package. Result, to be able to see the BBC channels we also have to pay for the fifteen or so French, German, Italian, Spanish, channels! none of which get watched. Now that is a rip off!

Ian M

[Guest]

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but I think we can all live without a TV service

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Even if you just mean that we could live without the BBC, (you probably didn't mean without any TV at all, of any sort in the UK), I wouldn't want BBC TV to die. No way.

[Alan 45]

Even if you just mean that we could live without the BBC, (you probably didn't mean without any TV at all, of any sort in the UK), I wouldn't want BBC TV to die. No way.

Lol no Steve I simply ment it was not life or death in reference to stonas health service post

[Guest]

Lol no Steve I simply ment it was not life or death in reference to stonas health service post

Actually I know what you mean Alan in a certain way.

But BBC do more than any other way that I know and promote programmes which entice people to part with their money. That is for Children in Need and the Ebola Crisis as instances. In the later case for both aid to counter the disease and also for those children whom have lost their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. That saves lives and puts battered lives at least on some sort of equilibrium. This is not a broken finger or a twisted ankle at Casualty NHS this is life or not and no NHS but BBC were there.

Also like to make note of Clive Myrie the BBC presenter. We have seen him behind the "counter" on news and other such programmes. But last week or so he was down in Sierra Leone to report on the Ebola Crisis. That is the BBC for me and their journalist. You do not get better than that. His report brought home to me from the very front line and he did it putting his life on the line. You do not see that on Sky. If that did not motivate people I do not know what will. They do not have TV down there but they do need the licence to live. If you did not shed a tear then..........

Laurie

Serious omittance. Should have included with Clive Myrie the Director and the Cameraman. They all deserve the accolade.