What is the future of the BBC?

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What is the future of the BBC?
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+ Pelador	Nov 2 2017, 02:51 PM Post #1
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	With the growth of Netflix and Amazon, what does the future hold for the BBC? It seems as though the network is becoming increasingly old fashioned. The mandatory licence fee for all households is outdated, the amount of quality content is severely limited and their plans to adapt to the modern age doesn't seem like enough to compete with other markets. What I would do if I were them is scrap the license fee enforced by law and hike up the price so that it matches that of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Secondly I'd scrap the television channels and replace them with a streaming service similar to Netflix. Thirdly I would scrap a wide range of programming that I don't feel is relevant to a modern audience. Mostly the daytime tv stuff. As much as I despise them, I'd still keep shows like Casualty, Holby City and Eastenders. I believe there is an audience for that kind of thing. But garbage like Antiques Roadshow and Escape to the Country would be trashed. I'm not sure what to do about the various gameshows. They don't seem like the kind of programmes people bother watching through a streaming service. More like things that are just on in the background. After all, some people have to have to the television on even if they don't really want to watch it. Or has the era of the gameshow past and we should just let them die?
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Darker	Nov 2 2017, 06:53 PM Post #2
The Lord of the Dark Posts: 15,357 Group: Member Member #11,968 Joined: January 7, 2015 Gender Male Country Spain	They should've kept dubbing animals.
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+ Steve	Nov 2 2017, 08:50 PM Post #3
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Yeah I wouldn't even get a BBC subscription if they went there...what would it be for really? Pretty much the only compelling television on the network is...um... I guess anything to do with Sir David Attenborough and...Doctor Who I suppose. Everything else is largely forgettable mindless trash, save for the few great documentaries. Hence why I don't have any form of TV box, there's just no point. I'm not paying for a TV license to sit and mindlessly flick through a bunch of crap I never watch. Streaming is definitely their only hope, if I could watch whatever I want at any time that'd be great. Obviously BBCi Player exists but they could do so much more with it.
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+ Emmeth	Nov 2 2017, 09:08 PM Post #4
I ♥ Yoeri Posts: 20,075 Group: Legend Member #8,985 Joined: February 7, 2013 Country Japan	BBC does have good panel shows like QI and Would I Lie to You.
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+ Pelador	Nov 2 2017, 09:30 PM Post #5
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	It has great documentaries, dramas, gameshows and a huge variety of radio channels. Plus BBC news is one of the most balanced in the world. So I would always want to keep the BBC. However there's a lot of trash they should get rid of and if they modernised it then they could make more revenue. I wish they still showed sports. Of course they can't afford to air any of it due to the cost of paying all the sponsors involved.
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* Mitas	Nov 2 2017, 09:56 PM Post #6
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	I would say that the TV license will die soon, but I'm actually surprised that the fee has lasted this long. I thought that with many people migrating towards streaming services on laptops etc, that that would signal the end of it, but now you have to pay the license even if you don't have a TV and have a laptop or tablet. So yeah, even though it's outdated, I don't really see it ending if it hasn't already. Especially since it's enforceable by law; ow exactly will it stop if people have to pay it by law? People can complain about it, just like they can complain about having to pay taxes, but if it's law then there's not much that's going to come from doing so. On a related note though, I think 'regular' TV will die once this current generation of 50-60+ people die, maybe even sooner. Most people under that age don't watch regularly scheduled TV anymore, outside of sports. Maybe when that happens the TV license will finally die.
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* Yu Narukami	Nov 2 2017, 09:58 PM Post #7
Izanagi! Posts: 12,330 Group: Retired Staff Member #6,446 Joined: July 3, 2011 Gender Not Specified Country None	I don't think the BBC can really 'modernise'. It has streaming services online, but the core part of its network is old-style television. Such a transition would cost way too much, and they'd lose a decently large part of their audience, namely the older demographic, if they shifted to streaming and made it, in any way, more complicated than it already is.



~~SSJPoo~~	Nov 3 2017, 12:39 PM Post #8
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