General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

When these so called stars move from the beeb to commercial telly, they usually look to tripling their salaries,
it is still you that is paying for it.

It is delusional to think financing by ad revenue amounts to "paying for itself".

My figures are now out of date, they refer to calculations done in1980's, and of course online now also competes for advertising revenue. Back then we calculated that you pay EIGHT times more to watch a programme on commercial TV than on the Beeb.

I am not defending the beeb, I. have my own criticisms of it. Fundamentally though the choice is do you want a public service broadcaster: PBS America Still outclasses the output from many of the remaining Septics' broadcasters.

You may as well scrap the beeb altogether rather than finance it from Ads revenue, at the best, all that could do is deliver you the same output at a much higher cost to us all.