BBC Should Axe Licence Fee, Think Tank Says

[walesrob]

As a ex-broadcaster myself, the beeb has always been held in high esteem around the world, and we can all agree the corporation is probably the best at public service broadcasting.

However, times have changed. More TV stations, the internet, digital radio, etc have diluted the Beebs share of viewers/listeners, and it needs to justify the licence fee. Remember, the BBC is first and foremost a public service broadcaster, so it has a remit to show a wide range of programming to cater for all people, but its the cost of delivering these services to increasingly small markets thats the problem here. In Wales, S4C is in big trouble, its costing £100m a year to run, but has very few viewers.

[KeithD]

.... In Wales, S4C is in big trouble, its costing £100m a year to run, but has very few viewers.

I'm not surprised, all I ever seem to get on it are Welsh messages instead of programs.

[Dedworth]

I'm not surprised, all I ever seem to get on it are Welsh messages instead of programs.

I watch BBC iPlayer and am hacked off at the amount of programmes in Gaelic, Irish and Welsh that are on there. BBC are throwing public money at producing programmes only a handful of people can watch.