Paul Gambaccini

[grober]

The Operation Yewtree branches spread wider. BBC News - Paul Gambaccini arrested in Operation Yewtree inquiry

 

[LTD]

We have always been told that the BBC was an institution.

For what purpose ?

Maybe there should be a mass non-payment of the licence fee until all the serial nonces and rapists at the BBC are jailed.

They've dined off the fatted calf for far too long.

 

[Colin_b]

We have always been told that the BBC was an institution.

For what purpose ?

Maybe there should be a mass non-payment of the licence fee until all the serial nonces and rapists at the BBC are jailed.

They've dined off the fatted calf for far too long.

I suspect that if you allocated the resources than have been devoted by the police to the BBC digging for offenders to any part of the music industry in the 60s, 70s and 80s you'd find similar results. Or schools, come to that.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

They've dined off the fatted calf for far too long.

Isn't that throwing the baby out with the bath water?

 

[NDFR]

Innocent until proven guilty and all that but it's very worrying. How much was known at the time but ignored?

 

[LTD]

I suspect that if you allocated the resources than have been devoted by the police to the BBC digging for offenders to any part of the music industry in the 60s, 70s and 80s you'd find similar results.

We are not forced to pay a tax to support the music industry apart from at the point of purchase.

Hence my comment about the licence fee.

As for the Police operation, there must be a huge amount of 'behind-the-scenes' evidence they have that we have yet to see. They wouldn't set up such an operation without foundation - they would have let it lie with Savile.

 

[flango]

We have always been told that the BBC was an institution.

For what purpose ?

Maybe there should be a mass non-payment of the licence fee until all the serial nonces and rapists at the BBC are jailed.

They've dined off the fatted calf for far too long.

When I spent time in London in the 1980's it was always known as Billy's Bonking Club

Completely outdated institution, time it was broken up and commercialised what a waste of license payers money it really is.

 

[Colin_b]

We are not forced to pay a tax to support the music industry apart from at the point of purchase.

Hence my comment about the licence fee.

As for the Police operation, there must be a huge amount of 'behind-the-scenes' evidence they have that we have yet to see. They wouldn't set up such an operation without foundation - they would have let it lie with Savile.

You don't have to pay the licence, iplayer and the like make it optional. It is a tax on watching live TV, rather than watching TV per se. And ripe for change.

I'm not sure if you are annoyed by the BBC, TV licence or something else.

 

[Colin_b]

When I spent time in London in the 1980's it was always known as Billy's Bonking Club

Completely outdated institution, time it was broken up and commercialised what a waste of license payers money it really is.

Care to share your vision of a privatised TV, radio and news future?

Oddly Google can find no mention of Billys Bonking Club.

 

[mejermy]

I would shut down the lot excepting Radio 4. However, on driving home tonight I had the misfortune to catch 'The Now Show', which did a pretty good imitation of a Socialist political propaganda transmission. As a result, I'm not even sure about Radio 4 now.

 

[flango]

Care to share your vision of a privatised TV, radio and news future?

Oddly Google can find no mention of Billys Bonking Club.

Care to share your vision of a privatised TV, radio and news future?

Nope Rupert Murdoch beat me to it.

Oddly Google can find no mention of Billys Bonking Club.

Why would it Unless the founders of Google were part of the drinking scene I was in in Soho and Holborn at the time.

 

[Meldrew2]

Care to share your vision of a privatised TV, radio and news future?

It can be seen already on every commercial and community radio station and on almost every satellite and terrestrial TV channel.

Not perfect, I agree, but the BBC are hardly a shining example of broadcasting IMHO…..

.

 

[LTD]

You don't have to pay the licence, iplayer and the like make it optional. It is a tax on watching live TV, rather than watching TV per se.

It's actually a tax on having a device capable of receiving a live TV signal rather than the ability to receive a live, non-optional, BBC signal.

A stealth tax used to fund the BBC under the mantra of not having adverts (apart from those pertaining to the BBC).

 

[bolide]

It's actually a tax on having a device capable of receiving a live TV signal rather than the ability to receive a live, non-optional, BBC signal.

A stealth tax used to fund the BBC under the mantra of not having adverts (apart from those pertaining to the BBC).

You don't have to pay it if you feel that strongly about it. There is life without TV

I think the BBC gives pretty good value for the licence fee. All that TV and Radio, plus the website & everything else. You might argue - with some justification - that salaries for management and "talent" are out of proportion but that's a common theme in sport, banking, retail, etc

Most people who comment about the BBC do from a position of ignorance, having been fed half-truths and lies by the media. Which makes it ironic that a large proportion of the population of the planet listens to the BBC to avoid the half-truths and lies peddled by their domestic media

The BBC is not Jimmy Savile or Paul Gambaccini, nor is it the DG or a Radio 1 DJ. It's a little more complex than that

Nick Froome

 

[flango]

My problem is I want TV but don't want the BBC you should be able to opt out just like you can with Sky channels. This is just an outdated Institution kept alive to provide a stealth tax on the British public it serves no other purpose whatsoever and most of its programming is available in an alternative format on an alternative channel, so I don't watch it but still have to pay now thats really fair. Maybe i'll start paying for my neighbours C63 which I don't drive either

 

[neilrr]

What Bolide says is true.

Overseas the view largely held is that the BBC is the best in the world. Here it's knocked by the Murdoch & Rothermere press / media & that pornographer who owns the Express & Channel 5 every single day of the week.

You can see it has influenced the domestic view.

 

[flango]

What Bolide says is true.

Overseas the view largely held is that the BBC is the best in the world. Here it's knocked by the Murdoch & Rothermere press / media & that pornographer who owns the Express & Channel 5 every single day of the week.

You can see it has influenced the domestic view.

I'm afraid that was the case but sadly is no longer the USA, Australians, Germans, French etc see the BBC in much the way most of the UK does. Check into any quality hotel abroad and you will find BBC World news has mostly gone and is replaced by Sky News, CNN or CNBC

The best in the world mantra is the same as the corporation itself outdated and overhyped.

 

[swannymere]

It's all gone very Daily Mail reader on here tonight.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

I bet that 75% of what I watch on TV is on the BBC and the only radio stations I listen to are Radio 2 and Radio 5 live.

I think the BBC is very excellent value for money and it would be a sad day if Murdoch got his megalomaniac way...

 

[John Jones Jr]

I think the BBC is very excellent value for money

Must agree. Then again it should be with 20-30million guaranteed licence fees coming in annually.