You Get What You Pay For. (TV Licence)

Member Name: Vivien

Product:	TV Licence
Date:	10/07/00 (41 review reads)
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At First the fee seems very expensive, and people from other countrys can't envisage that you may go to prison if you don't pay the TV license.However when you consider what you get for the license and compare the quality of broadcasting with other countrys, paticulary the US, and with cable and sattelite channels I believe we get good value for money.

For the license fee we get
1) 5 quality national Radio Stations that cater for a wide range of tastes. These stations provide entertainment, news , sport, dicussion etc without subjecting the listener to the same inane adverts hour after hour.

2) a selection of local radio programmes

3) BBC1 , and BBC2 showing quality drama, news sport ( when it can afford it ) etc,again all without the irritating adverts

When the costs are compared with that of cable or sattelite companys I believe the BBC offers great value for money. Moreover surveys find that people with the extra channels spend more time watching the BBC than the others.
After traveling to the US or Canada, and seeing the TV there, with identical scheduling day after day, no real rapor build up with presenters and frequent advert breaks I am glad to pay a bit extra for the quality of the BBC

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