The BBC has always opposed a change to the licence fee funding model on the grounds that subscription would be technically too difficult and would cost too much…..not to mention of course that the licence fee is easy money at the moment and a guaranteed source of income regardless of what they produce and who watches.
On the other hand it has decided that it is technically feasible and presumably financially sound to make viewers of the iPlayer abroad sign in with a special code….how then is that model not transferable to British viewers in the UK who can choose to pay a lump sum up front or pay on a subscription basis daily/weekly/monthly or per programme?
The BBC is planning to allow licence-fee payers to access its iPlayer abroad, it has emerged.
This would enable British holidaymakers to watch award-winning programmes – including The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, and Match Of The Day – on sunny, foreign beaches.
At present, the licence-fee-funded iPlayer is supposed to be watched by only UK TV viewers.
Under the proposal, licence-fee payers could be given a secret code to log on to the iPlayer while abroad – but this code would be designed to expire within several weeks, according to The Times.
This would prevent non-licence-fee-paying expats from illegally using the code, it is reported.
A BBC spokesman told MailOnline in a statement: ‘While there are a range of technical and legal complexities, this is an area where we’ve already started work and agree with the idea of licence fee payers being able to access programmes on BBC iPlayer when they’re on holiday overseas.
‘We’ll carry on considering how this can be made to work.’
If the BBC and this government don’t get a move on everybody will be watching programmes on catch up or just films and box sets by subscription, and the TV tax will be finished anyway . More and more people are waking up to the BBC’s left wing socialist clap trap and their sycophantic appeasement of the murderous third world cult that has been foisted upon us.
Even my gentle wife was outraged when I said over lunch that, “ this Tory bunch of idiots are considering whether to put the TV tax on the rates”. “They had better remember the Poll Tax riots and think again then,” she said in a no nonsense raised voice. I just said, “yes dear, a good point” and thought, “ah the penny has dropped eventually”.
Be sure that the pitter-patter of tiny feet walking away from the BBC will become a stampede eventually and finally the British Broadcasting Cowards that turned the other cheek to their in house bunch of paedophile monsters will be shut down.
Then the champagne bottles will be strewn all over our little cottage and I will go off with a smile to meet the three greatest people that ever walked this planet. They are of course Maggie, Winnie and Mr Freddie Mercury.
Enjoy the sun today they say there is a hurricane coming.
OT – I think that you are Michael Fish and I claim the £5.00 prize
“Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way… well, if you’re watching, don’t worry. I promise never to eat baked beans again”.
Is that Winnie the Pooh, Mandela or Churchill ?
Good luck with the last of those three (in response to the OP, BTW).
The BBC seem to be doing better programmes in part these days.
Saw some BBC24 thing about the EU earlier-much fairer and personal than the usual slurry-yes, it`s clear what they`d like to say…but it was fairer than usual.
Ditto with some Radio 4 thing about Camerons legacy on Radio 4 after lunch today-mostly OK, though yet again-pretty clear what the bias is…but it`s far more subtle, so I can live with it.
My problem with THAT one though was the continual mention of the BBC as being a bridge too far for Cameron to amend…doing what even Thatcher would not do apparently!
I resent that inference-Maggie didn`t have the Internet and Freeview to consider as media alternatives, so it`s a stupid analogy…but to hear the BBC keep citing this “attack” on their funding as being a “mark of the radical right” was galling.
So too the continual referring to Thatcher…she was is and always will be MRS Thatcher-if they don`t use that title, you know they`re being nasty…she was our one and only FEMALE Prime Minister…and that is ALWAYS worth a mention to the liberal lefties who hate that.
Might get a campaign to give her full “Baroness,the Lady Margaret Hilda Thatcher of Kesteven” if they continue to denigrate the late saviour of the nation in 1979…I`m getting sick of it.