is a very interesting situation now being an american i have a hard time wrapping my head around the bbc license fee thing from my point of view uh the best i can make it out is that it's it's sort of like if we had to pay for pbs over here in the states now pbs does a lot of fundraising again for those of you overseas um but nobody has to pay for pbs it's broadcast over the air for free uh same with you know nbc cbs abc they are free as long as you have a television and an antenna you get them they're supported by advertising with the bbc you have to pay a license fee and uh you know if you have a television to watch their programming and that is primarily how they are bankrolled as i understand it and a lot of people are like why are you forcing me to pay for really shitty television um you know not that everything that comes out of the bbc is is shitty but a lot of the shows lately have had a definite political agenda we've been hearing from a lot of folks in the uk they're not happy with the direction of the bbc and they don't want to pay for it anymore especially when you've got other options like you know netflix and hbo and all these other streaming services why would you pay for television you don't care to watch so even the new york times picked up on this british cabinet minister calls for the end of the bbc license fee the fee makes up three quarters of the public broadcaster's income and is guaranteed until NUMBER_TOKEN the government minister is reportedly planning to squeeze funding until then this is really interesting over the weekend a british government minister attempted to deal a death blow to the main source of funding for the bbc a license fee charged each year to any household with the tv now i've heard if you don't pay it they'll actually fine you or arrest you absolutely bonkers but i i i'm sure that uh folks across the pond think some of our laws are absolutely bonkers uh nadine dory's is that her name nadine dory's who oversees the bbc in the cabinet said on twitter that an upcoming announcement about the license fee will be the last she also linked to an article that said she would freeze the fee for the next two years a move that will require substantial budget cuts at the public broadcaster because of inflation and here you can see her her uh tweets right here a license fee announcement is going to be last the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding supporting and selling great british content sell out to sony that's what you do you sell out to sony a sell out to the japanese sell out to americans americans i know uh his dark materials which i am a huge fan of by the way i think they did a really good job with that series i always did like the books and uh i was very disappointed in the movie but i think the series is is very very good and that was a co-production with hbo
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