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If you love World Drama, music programs, the unusual etc etc then please sign this petition.
https://www.change.org/p/british-broadcasting-corporation-save-bbc-four-from-closure
Thank you.
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Good work, thank you all!
Done. Its the best channel on terrestrial TV.
Why not make it available via subscription?
I've already subscribed
@scotroutes so you want folk to pay twice for access to all of BBC programs? I would pay for a subscription but not a licence as well cos I rarely watch any other BBC channels.
Doesn't this just reflect the way we consume TV now? BBC3 was closed but it's still producing content like This Country for iPlayer. And if it gets a decent audience it's broadcast on the main 1 and 2 channels.
Doesn’t this just reflect the way we consume TV now?
Realise I'm very much the exception here but the only telly I pay for is in the form of a TV licence, no subscriptions at all.
Realise I’m very much the exception here but the only telly I pay for is in the form of a TV licence, no subscriptions at all.
BBC iPlayer is free to all TV Licence holders.
Well, it would appear that the current subscription (license fee) isn't enough to pay for all of the content. Either pay a higher license fee and get everything included, drop content to what is sustainable, make some of it available at extra cost or make all of the content available at cost and drop the licence fee. Or, you know, have adverts.
BBC4 and cooking programmes is basically all I watch. Signed.
(Caught the rerun episode of Andrew Marr's 20th century last night - so good!)
Realise I’m very much the exception here but the only telly I pay for is in the form of a TV licence, no subscriptions at all.
BBC iPlayer is free to all TV Licence holders.
How long for though now that they have Britbox?
I am similar in that the first ever subscription I paid for was two weeks ago so my wife could rewatch Downton Abbey. It was not available in full (ie all series all episodes including specials) on BBC iPlayer, but was on Britbox. The days of paying more than once for the same content from the BBC are sadly already here...
scotroutes
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Why not make it available via subscription?
Why not heavily fine the parasites who watch without a licence? 🙂
Not so long ago I would have signed that petition, on the basis that there were excellent music or history programmes regularly appearing on BBC4. Recently, I can’t remember anything that has interested me, and since lockdown it’s just wall to wall repeats. And not just repeats, but stuff that’s been repeated multiple times in the last few years.
So no, I’m not signing a petition to save a channel full of repeats.
iPlayer was designed for programmes to be available for up to 30 days - not available forever.
Britbox is a streaming service in the vein of Netflix established by UK TV providers, now including BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 to show current and archive material. If you want to watch the whole of Downton again from the start then why shouldn't you pay for it? 10 yrs ago you'd have bought it on DVD.
Unfortunately for the BBC they no longer have a monopoly on great TV and have to adapt to compete on the World stage, not just to a UK audience.
Why keep a channel running to broadcast to a few thousand when it could be bunged on iPlayer for a fraction of the cost. If it's good enough it will find an audience.
Well, it would appear that the current subscription (license fee) isn’t enough to pay for all of the content.
Now why would that be?
since lockdown it’s just wall to wall repeats. And not just repeats, but stuff that’s been repeated multiple times in the last few years.
It's probably quite tricky to make new stuff at the moment...
I am similar in that the first ever subscription I paid for was two weeks ago so my wife could rewatch Downton Abbey. It was not available in full (ie all series all episodes including specials) on BBC iPlayer, but was on Britbox. The days of paying more than once for the same content from the BBC are sadly already here…
It isn't on the iplayer because it is an ITV show.
Well, it would appear that the current subscription (license fee) isn’t enough to pay for all of the content.
Now why would that be?
Would it be because the consumers don't feel it's all worth paying for?
The only channel I watch consistently. Signed.
Signed.
Would it be because the consumers don’t feel it’s all worth paying for?
Well, yes, on it's own BBC4 would not be commercially viable, but that's assuming that all broadcasting should be on a commercial model. The beauty of the 'unique way the BBC is funded', as they used to like to say, is that more specialist/niche demographics can still be served, whilst maintaining the 'mainstream' programming.
Man, how could I live without 1986 Top Of the Pops!
The only decent thing I've seen on BBC4 is the Storyville documentaries, but I'm sure they're available elsewhere.
Not so long ago I would have signed that petition, on the basis that there were excellent music or history programmes regularly appearing on BBC4. Recently, I can’t remember anything that has interested me,
Agree, it used to be great and I watched a lot of stuff on it but now rarely watch it as it has gone downhill
the ‘unique way the BBC is funded’,
Through a form of taxation. Same as Russia Today?
I’d be happy if terrestrial TV stopped along with the licence fee. Subscription model is great and means you can pick and choose, cancelling and subscribing to different ones depending what’s on offer. Wouldn’t entertain the licence fee, but Mrs F claims CBeebies is needed sometimes 😀
Signed - I need my fix of Scandi Noir!
Today's BBC4 schedule, nothing on from 3:50am to 7pm.
Wallander, The Bridge, Inspector Montalbano and loads of other foreign TV shows were bought by BBC4, they wouldnt get an audience here on other channels, and we'd be poorer for it.
Absolutely love all the niche documentaries ive watched on there over the years.
Definitely my favourite channel too.
I wonder if the BBC will be around in an even vaguely familiar form 5 years from now?
It's on the Govs hit list for not towing the government's line well enough so I think it's days are numbered.
Signed though.
Would it be because the consumers don’t feel it’s all worth paying for?
Would say that consumers are well aware that the BBC exercised no restraint with regard to the money received from government. Add to that overpaid dimwit presenters, every 'C' list celebrity travelling around the world by train/doing a road trip somewhere thousands of miles away, stupid dancing programs with even stupider celebrities. The list is endless!
Make the plebs pay for their own dumbed down nonsense and let those of us who like a bit of culcha and forin murder continue to watch BBC4 FOC.
It does piss me off I pay a licence fee and yet I don't watch or listen to BBC. Maybe cut the wages of some of its presenters/staff to pay for BBC4.
Signed
The licence fee is not enough to produce the current amount of programming because the Tories have farmed pensioner vote bribes onto the BBC.
Did the likes of Gary Lineker get furloughed by the BBC while the football season has been in limbo, or is he still getting a monthly share of ~£1.75 million (or whatever it was reduced to towards the end of last year)?
Signed.
It is pretty much the only channel that gets watched 'live' in our house.
Done, it's when you accidentally watch a channel 5 'history' program you realise how good BBC4 is.
So BBC3 is coming back then, at the expense of 4 perhaps?
Done, it’s when you accidentally watch a channel 5 ‘history’ program you realise how good BBC4 is.
this!
signed
They could save a lot of cash by stopping making elaborate period drama dourfests, and all those dark twists on the classics, grim, dull pish.
And that smug **** Lineker.
Why keep a channel running to broadcast to a few thousand when it could be bunged on iPlayer for a fraction of the cost. If it’s good enough it will find an audience.
How would I stumble across an ace music documentary on a Friday night whilst flicking through the programme guide on my TV?
Far easier than loading up iPlayer, scrolling through the channels, selecting BBC4, scrolling through content, selecting a programme, wait for it to load, watch....
Probably why the beeb are considering putting BBC3 back on broadcast TV.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52719883
I could live without the Top of the Pops repeats though 😉
Close the whole BBC down.
A govt propaganda channel that you are criminalised for not paying for is an excrescence in a so called democracy.
since lockdown it’s just wall to wall repeats. And not just repeats, but stuff that’s been repeated multiple times in the last few years.
It’s probably quite tricky to make new stuff at the moment…
You know that programmes are made quite a few weeks or months ahead of broadcast? So the current lockdown will only add to my complaint.
Signed.