BBC Advertising on Google...

I dropped into the Google groups to have a quick browse through UKRM
and I noticed that very the first "Sponsored Link" on the first page
of the group was an advert from the BBC!

Sponsored Links

Mars exploration - latest
For the latest news on exploring
Mars - Visit BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Obviously it had picked up a couple of keyword in the titles of
the posts, but the fact that the BBC are using the licence fee
to advertise on Google seems wrong to me. A bit like the way they
constantly advertise their own DVD/Videos or magazines with the
tiniest "other magazines are available" disclaimer.

The sooner they abolish the licence fee the better.

 

Hear hear! (Or is it supposed to be Here here?)

 

There, there! There on the stair, a little mouse/spete/etc with clogs
on[1].

[1] There[2], I've saved you all the trouble.
[2] Just don't, ok.

 

There there, don't get worked-up.

 

Indeed. I'm fed up to the hind teeth of the BBC atm.
I have no intention of getting a new set top box for
terrestrial digital TV. I have enough crap telly as
it is TYVM. Yet I'm still forced to pay a full licence
fee whilst they cream off all the new premium content
programs I'm paying for, off to these new digital only
channels. They constantly run patronising ads by Suzie
Perry and reminders all the time about these great new
content programs I've been paying for but can't see...
Unless, I meekly fall into line with their projected
business model for the next (this) millennium. Which I
suspect will end up in the long term being a nicely
'atomised' pay per view service which will end up
costing an arm and a leg. Cunts.

Help. I'm turning bitter, angry and twisted.

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But it was the Government, not the BBC that decided
recently not to abolish the license fee, wasn't it?

Heh, aren't we all.

 

The gubmint are the BBCs lapdogs!

 

And they, and not the BBC, who stand to make money from the transition to
DVB-T and the analogue switch off so they can flog off the spectrum for some
fourth-generation phone thingy

 

Exactly. Slag the govt. off, not the BBC[1]!

[1] Well, slag the Beeb off too, by all means, but not over
the license fee, etc.

 

Damn right

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Yeah, then we'll have quality stuff like on ITV.

 

Don't care. The point is that I won't be paying for the shit that
they currently produce.

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For a vision of what it would be like if this happened, spend an
evening flicking between Sky One and Bravo.

 

Think why a lot of the press are opposed to the BBC and the way it's
funded.

Nothing to do with the poor the old consumer, its all about opening
another avenue for their owners to make money. Another mass media for
them to control and progress their agendas.

The fight for a free press in the future won't be freedom from Goverment
interference, but freedom from big business [1].

[1] I would normally use the word 'capital' at that point but I don't
want to give the impression of ranting looney.

 

While at home over Christmas, the only thing that I watched on
the BBC was The Office specials. Other than that, it was mainly
repeats or rip-offs of other ITV programs.

What was the last piece of "quality" programming you watched
on the BBC, if you don't mind me asking? Do you watch the new
BBC digital channels, or maybe listen to national or local
BBC radio? Just interested to find out if you think you get
value for your tenner a month to the BBC?

 

I'm having difficulty remembering the last time I watched any
BBC TV channel as a matter of choice[1].

I watched Question Time a two or maybe three weeks ago
but other than that it would almost certainly have been
football - ah, one of the FA Cup 3rd round games, which
was, what, three weeks back?

I do listen to BBC Radio fairly often, though.

[1] As opposed to channel surfing and watching a bit of
some program while adverts were on whatever channel I
was watching.

 

I use BBC News on the web frequently. Comedy-wise I enjoyed both "The
Office" and "Little Britain" as well as "Dead Ringers" on the BBC. I can't
stand channels such as Sky One or ITV; so I'd say I'm happy to pay for the
BBC. Both the children's programming and their web content is very good and
as I have 3 children, I find this very pleasing. Radio 4 has some great
programmes and I hate commercials.

As far as I'm concerned less than £10/month isn't so bad.

 

Can't get digital.

I don't watch *that* much telly but I do listed to a lot of radio, most of
which is pretty good. Much better than commercial radio.

The bbc web site is top notch.

I liked all the various "walking with" programs and the "wonders of the
industrial age" series was brillant. The news is good and the only worth
watching in the morning.

Plenty of good docs, like the Miners Strike one next week.

Little Britain is very good.

The Big Cat stuff a couple of weeks back was good

I like the days that changed the world stuff thats on at the moment

and so forth.

I honestly can't remember the last program I watched on ITV.

 

Stephen Poliakoff's "The Lost Prince". I also watch University
Challenge every week.

I watch News24 a bit, and whichever one Little Britains was first on
(BBC4?)

yeah, listen to R4 pretty much every day.

I also use the BBC's website a lot.

it's hard to quantify. I certainly don't mind spending a tenner a
month on the licence - it's only a fucking tenner. I spend more than
that every Friday lunchtime in the pub.

 

me neither. And the stuff we[1] tend to watch on C4/E4 are American
imports.

[1] I say "we", I mean "Angie watches ER while I read a book".