Their arrogance just angers me, the BBC actually think they're above competing with other TV companies and think that they shouldn't have too!

Defund the BBC cancel your direct debits.

The BBC needs to move with the times and be financially independent via a subscription service, no shitty letters just because you choose not to watch their content

Don't just remove the licence fee, defund the BBC.

Way back in time, the BBC turned out some good documentaries and comedy shows. If they had not gone to live in cloud cuckoo land and started showing shite then people like me would not have cancelled our licence tax.

The whole lot should go, the British Bashing Corporation and the licence fee ! Get rid of the whole shebang !

cannot believe they even want to charge for the shite they put on christmas

The BBC Board (all 13 of them) must have the most scratched backs in the global media.

Every time I get a letter I file a complaint with my local police force and demand they give me a crime number. I tell the police I've received a letter demanding money with menaces and someone has threatened to send somebody round to my house to frighten me into paying money. The police are really keen to do something until I say it's from BBC licencing but I insist on a crime number!

My mates kids have all ditched the TV licence and have gone the Netflix route, I suspect all new TV watchers will go the Netflix watch.

At a friend’s house on Christmas Day, Dads Army followed Morecambe and Wise both from around 1971! Absolutely disgusting they have the cheek to continue to receive licence payers money when many do not watch the crap they put out as programming!

People just don't want the BBC anymore

I'm in Ireland. We hate our broadcaster RTE as much, if not more than you hate BBC. We need a TV licence by simply owning a TV. I've no licence and when a goon knocked on my door 3 years ago I pretended I had tourettes and called him a ****. Hasn't come back since.

Great info from you, cancelled mine today, can’t justify paying it anymore, have detuned all my TV’s 2 weeks ago and realised I don’t need live tv anymore, keep up the good work

Good old jug ears (Lineaker) gave me the impetus to stop paying for a TV licence and give up watching "live tv" forever.

The BBC can jog on. I have no intention of paying for the licence again. Please do a pdf or something that I can print that’s simple for people to understand that I can hand out

Jobs for the boys, Jon. The BBC have long ago lost the confidence of the nation. Defund the BBC and force them to fund themselves through advertising. Many thanks for sharing with us Jon 👍👍👍

Imagine how much court time would be freed up if these scumbags stopped prosecuting vulnerable women.....predators, like Harris ,hall and saville.

A legal case for the harassment of TV licensing should get funded. Just look at them if it said something other than TV Licensing at the top there would be uproar. If they were sent from an individual they would get a visit from the police due to harassment

BBC make out that low budget shows wouldn't get made without them... This was true at one time... But Netflix started taking on shows/films people believed not to be worth making, and now all streaming services are fighting over low budget shows/films... ... So why do the BBC still think their innovators ?

If the goverment had any backbone they would scrap the license fee

The BBC prosecution of so many people for failing to have a license is obscene

Hi Jon,I got rid of my TV around 8 years ago, for various reasons; i.e. I don't like paying wages to sex offenders, perverts, narcissists and ego-maniacs or more recently, BBC newsreaders who flip the bird at viewers. I got a stack of harassing letters, all slightly different and in creative colouring promising me a visit from a jobsworth. I made sure to have plenty of teabags and biscuits in stock because I was looking forward to a chat, not having a TV means I thrive on connection with other people from all walks of life, even the mentally challenged. I spoke to a Licensing representative over the phone a few years ago, he was so interested in my life I was astonished. He wanted to know what I do with my evenings as I don't have an idiot box. I told him all about my hobbies and he got a bit bored. Maybe he should get a job he enjoys? Every year I have to ring them up and say I don't have a TV. But it's a bit easier now as it's multiple choice and you don't have to speak to anyone. I encourage anyone who reads this to get rid of your TV and start enjoying your life instead. All the best for the new year.

They should pay us for watching the crap our take it of people's tvs

I was always a licence fee payer and enjoyed paying for something I wanted to watch, but I watch KZfaq, amazon prime, Netflix and rarely watch normal channels like BBC or other terrestrial channels, so 2023 was first year ever I never renewed my licence as I don't see the point to pay for something I don't watch, and I like watching sport like snooker etc, but I don't have to watch live coverage, I can catch up later...makes no odds lol. But I don't see how £159 is money well spent... its not in my book. Nice upload mate... hopefully someone from the BBC sees your channel and passes the word round and see how much everyone is united in not paying for a bloody TV licence.

They are desperate to preserve themselves and their pockets lined with gold.

I've had no TV since 2009. No licence, no TV, no satellite or cable or subscriptions; I've got no interest whatsoever in the BBC or ITV or Sky or any other broadcaster. I haven't seen a news bulletin or a newspaper for almost twenty years. I don't care what's going on in the world; I withdrew from the whole sorry, miserable mess and haven't missed it one little bit. I don't even have a mobile phone. I live very simply in West Yorkshire on a tiny income of around £1,000 [yes, that's one-thousand quid] per year. I haven't minded filling in the 'no TV licence required' declaration form every few years as requested. The Licence Fee department hasn't bothered me; I've had no threats or angry letters or visits or investigations. Meanwhile, I have hobbies. I build things. I grow veggies. I read books. I write. I paint. I'm a musician (of sorts) and compose, record and produce at home (it's done through headphones, so my neighbours don't hear a thing). I don't watch live TV, at all. I watch KZfaq videos on a cheapo tablet. If the traditional TV licence fee is abolished, there is absolutely no way that I'll be forced into paying any kind of blanket 'media tax', however they try to hide and impose it. I will not support a TV network that has nothing to do with me. Likewise, I won't be paying my neighbour's car insurance, nor shall I buy a fishing licence for the friendly but slightly bonkers carp fanatic who lives across the road. If there's any attempt to sneak a media component onto the Council Tax, I'll cancel my Direct Debit and go back to paying by cheque so that I can remove the media element and only pay the rest. I loathe what the BBC has become and want nothing more to do with it. Auntie Beeb won't get another penny out of me, ever. Like a lot of people, I've been pushed around quite a bit in life; taking control 15 years ago was the best thing I've ever done. Anyone who thinks I'll meekly pay for something that I don't want and don't like and don't use is going to have a very messy fight on their hands.

the government will put the licence fee on our poll tax.😢

A friend if mine worked as a "detector van" driver years ago. He told me the van was virtually empty. They just choose random houses knowing chances are you'll have a telly. That was in the 80s. I've never had a TV license and I'm in my 50s. Stuff them.

The bbc should be a subscription channel then we can pay if we won't to watch or not and scrap the TV licence

£3.8 BILLION a year to show strictly come dancing and MOTD Gary Linekar is a 100% TWUNT. I stopped paying my license months ago.

We need an inquiry into this, costing many £100s of millions of pounds, taking 10 years to complete and nothing useful coming out. 🙄🥴

Hi Jon I've just cancelled my tv licence because I literally only watch KZfaq thank you very much for enlightening me. Ps love your channel.

The Andrew Sachs call wasn’t actually live, it was prerecorded. The BBC *chose* to broadcast even though they could’ve edited it out. It was Rossy that mentioned the ‘S’ word, Brand took the hit.

The BBC can gear up all they want but I won’t be paying for that shite the BBC,itv , channel 4 and 5 spew out 99% of the time 😡

Nobody should be paying a licence fee, to the BBC Just make them advertise simple.... People don't need the BBC...

It should go a subscription service, but they know it would collapse.

It's gone from Auntie Beeb to Dodgy Pervy Bloke who peeps through curtains Beeb.

I wish someone with money would send letters out to every house hold explaining the rules, law and why you don't need a licence, because there's still people out there who are unaware and are just paying out of fear. As a postman im delivering hundreds & hundreds of threatening TV licence letters every month on my round and all my colleagues are noticing the number of TV licence letters are going up. We are sick to death of delivering them and don't want to deliver them but unfortunately we have no choice, but if someone was to send thousands of letters out explaining how not to pay it and why you don't have to pay it then I will gladly deliver these letters just to get the message across to people.

The problem with the argument about radio suffering first if the licence fee is scrapped is that you don't need a licence to listen to the radio.

If you don't watch BBC cancel it online, it's easy. 5,000 HOUSES cancel their tv license every week.

Gary needs to leave by a window of opportunity, 🏢 !

Stop watching it then. I did 8 years ago. They never bother me. Sheesh... 😡

cancel the licence defund the government propaganda arm.

If you make the mistake of letting the goons in, if they see iPlayer installed they do you for watching it, even if you haven't, I'm sure they've been told to do that, even though it's already installed on every streaming hardware and TV's, despicable practice.

Brand and Ross should've been prosecuted, under the Malicious Communications Act, over that telephone call.

I stopped my TV Licence in 2002, long before it was a discussion point. At the time I had to get my MP, Sir Micheal Spicer, to write to TV Licensing to stop them bullying me with threats. It worked and I think they regard me as being not requiring a TV Licence to this day. I love it when I visit friends who still have functioning live TV, and, if the BBC TV service no longer appealed to me twenty-one years ago, it simply horrifies me now! I still listen to Radio Three, but I accept that this old school service must be on borrowed time. Nowadays you can get all the music you want on the internet in any case. But I do enjoy R3 on VHF with a fully restored 1957 Leak tuner and Quad amp and speaker. [Amp from 1999 and speaker also from 1957]. What I particularly don't understand is why the Licence Fee should finance the BBC World Service, which is merely an arm of the UK government foreign office propaganda department, and nobody takes this seriously nowadays. The days of 1939 - 45, when people secretly listen to the BBC in Nazi occupied Europe are generations ago. I would stop the World Service tomorrow as funded. If the Foreign Office want to devote some of their propaganda money to continuing the service that would be an election issue to be decided in political manifesto policy commitments and elections. Democracy at work. Best wishes from George

STOP WATCHING THEIR OUTPUT AND STOP PAYING THE FEE !!

If you pay the licence fee, bear in mind you are financing the bbc’s defence of the bashir fraud.

Does anybody know how many deaths have been after visits by BBC enforcement officers?

Jon, as usual, has nailed it with simple and straightforward analysis.

I am licence free, and do not watch live TV, or iPlayer, however, If goons obtain a warrant to enter my premises, can I be prosecuted for the ability to watch live TV via channel 4 catchup, or live TV via my fire stick, which is possible, without TV aerial, but I do not do this..

just shut it down it is past it's sale by date and has been for years

I hope they keep the TV licence.... them that want to pay it, can keep paying it.... I'd hate for it to be abolished, and then I'd have to pay it via a stealth media levy when I haven't paid it for over 15 years.

If the BBC moved to a subscription based model their revenue would increase considerably because their market would be global And not just UK. If they chucked in adverts aswell they would be absolutely raking it in. This would more than make up for the abolition of the extremely unfair and immoral licence fee. AKA the telly tax.

to be honest i wouldnt care if bbc didnt exist now its content its absolute crap at least in 90s they made a few decent things even top gear has gone now i dont watch broadcast tv no more not for 10 years since i stopped paying licence fee and as i see when at moms bbc 1 is mainly repeats it makes you think what you pay fee for waste of money lets just hope it does not become another tax keep these coming jon great video

"The incentive would be to only make programming that retains subscribers." In other words the BBC is an elitist organisation that has elected itself the arbiter of good taste, and openly concedes that it makes programmes that only a tiny minority of people would pay for, if given the choice. Which is exactly why they don't want to give people that choice, and instead they levy what amounts to a "tax" on everyone who watches any TV channel, even if it's never the BBC. Because it's the only way they can get paid to make programmes that nobody wants to watch. It's an absolute racket.

What’s funny is by making all their content woke and the awful state news propaganda who would pay for it. I think 65 million + people would say no thanks

If they stick it on the council tax I hope there is rioting on the poll tax level.

Ask reform party what they intend to do with tv licence fee, if they will keep it dont vote for them.

The Internet has changed the game and don't the BBC management get it?

Cancelled my tv licence and won’t ever be renewing it

Is just me or has the BBC excepted money from Disney in return for product placement. The product being what is now commonly known thanks to a well known KZfaqr as the message. A reported £100 million for Doctor who, this deserves a video Jon.

"Subscription wouldn't generate enough income" is a very careful way of saying that people don't actually want it. Side note, the government has always been incredibly eager to privatise things, but the BBC is not one of them. I wonder why...

If it turns into a media tax, we are going to be taxed for opening our phones. WTF

What qualifications are a prerequisite for any one to be employed in the BBC. (And Parliament for that matter)

Im sick of the bbc as is rhe majority of the public

I predict that the licence fee will be added to the council tax. This way, we will be forced into paying the corporate despite many of us not wanting their services. The government will back that method as the BBC pushes their directive.

Its been cancelled

The ad industry follows numbers, and if the BBC make good programmes, they will attract ever growing viewing figures, which in turn will attract advertising revenue, but if they don’t, they won’t. It's not rocket science. Competition is good someone should try telling that to the BBC then maybe they would up their game now in preparation for the inevitable. As for Lineker he was or is still the unofficial, official voice off the BBC, it's just that they know that if they admit to it, they would be in breach of the royal charter, hence the reason why he's still allowed to post on social media at will.

But John they DO show Ads! In between every programme they advertise their own programmes!

My biggest fear is that, with the more people choosing not to pay, is them implementing this 'media tax' type of thing which you mention at the end of this video. If they force us to do this then it officially becomes the state broadcaster and I would argue that they are then only allowed to broadcast factual information, something they're not currently very good at.

When you're always going to be kept afloat regardless of your own failures, you have no reason to do better. They've had no reason to do better for decades, and that's why they cost so much and provide such low quality.

The BBC is already closing local radio stations. I work for a charity in Merseyside, and Roger Lyon is a patron. He was recently let go from the BBC, as they're only having like 3 local programmes and the rest are now just national services. Losing more listeners in the process. So regardless of the change for "subscription" instead of the license, it wouldn't change for radios anymore.

If the BBC truly believe what they preach that is that the service is "fantastic value for money" then they should have no worries going to a subscription model as everyone would buy a package! Clearly not the case!

John on licensing. Why don't people do as us! Simply don't have a license and leave them to it. Their local radio was good but has been wrecked so bar R3 ive left them.

Big Bully Company forgets what every other bully forgets, people eventually snap - BBC has harassed public for far too long and people no longer fear them.. people used to fear bullies but due to how prolific and bold bullies have become people no longer fear them, anger has replaced fear and thus they can do nothing but either give up on being bullies or continue to try and intimidate and get the inevitable rebellion that follows (DWP are much the same).

If only we could have a Government that listened to the voice of the people they are supposed to represent!

Don’t watch or listen to the BBC - haven’t for years. Stopped watching BBC TV about 20 years ago and, for the radio, it’s even longer - stopped listening to BBC Radio way back in 1974 when my area got its first commercial radio station. *The BBC radio listening figures dropped by about 70% and they were whining about it even back then.* They’ve never recovered.

Not paid for one for over 6 yrs now, and have no intention to ever pay again.

Impartiality? BBC? Impartiality?

I often wonder what would happen, if a multi millionaire or company were to place a single prime time advert on Netflix or Prime, explaining that people don't need a TV license simply for having a TV and it's only for watching LIVE TV or the iplayer I wonder how many would cancel?

For subscription, "Technical obstacles are huge" that news report said. Total BS. Every Freeview TV has a CI card slot on the back, to facilitate access to encrypted Pay TV services. Robust encryption IS supported on Freeview! Infrastructure is ALREADY in place!! "Not enough advertising to go round" - what garbage. With that argument they could have stopped Sky TV from launching, or C4, C5, or literally any new private service ever launched...

I can understand the argument regarding advertising and it'll cause a big upset in the TV industry if they were instantly allowed to advertise... however this wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't make such a protected giant in the first place! I think they should start experimenting with it. Freeze the licence fee, and allow the BBC to only show X many adverts. The next year if it has worked, reduce the licence fee and allow more adverts; then do more after that.

The BBC have no intention of giving up the license fee voluntarily........... and "commitee" looking into this for them will be instucted to only publish certain findings that support the status quo.

They've denied people informed consent 😮

I cancelled my TV Licence 2 years ago. My husband and I watch Netflix in the evening for a couple of hours. When I am visiting my Mothers in a residential home which has a communal TV Licence I see what she watches and it is all the old repeats of Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Heartbeat. Out of interest I had a look at the television magazine and out of a whole days viewing there were only 5 things that did not have the R for repeat after them. I totally agree with you that the BBC has gone stale and they do not try to better themselves because they are guaranteed the money.

A Rouge's gallery of BBC creeps and grifters. Scrap the licence fee. Privatise the BBC.

TV has 60+ Freeview channels, the majority of these channels show repeats of programs that were originally shown upto 30 years age. Why pay for tthis?

We should not need to have a license to watch tv.We have to pay enough as it is for Sky,Virgin etc.

I agree with this video scrap the TV licence fee because you don't need a tv licence to watch almost 90% or more of all programs

I've just done my no licence declaration today. I don't have a problem spending 5 minutes on the blower every couple of years to (very politely) tell them I don't need a licence. Been doing it for 8 years now, never had a problem, never had the letters every few months and I've never had a knock on the door. Today was a bit different though. My god, the agent WOULD NOT shut up about just how 'wonderful' iPlayer is. I have honestly had car salesmen apply less pressure to try and get a sale than this bellend did today! I had to tell him at least half a dozen times that there is literally NOTHING the BBC has to offer that I'm interested in, even if it was free. He wouldn't give it a rest until telling him (not so politely this time) that I didn't appreciate him trying to pressure me into paying for something that I neither want nor watch, especially since I've already declared this to be the case. What has always been a very easy, very quick and very amicable phonecall in the past seems to have turned into a pretty desperate, hard sales opportunity for them now.

the only BBC channel I miss watching since giving up my TV in favour of streaming services is BBC Parliament. As a citizen I should have the ability to watch parliamentry coverage (live) without paying to do so.

DONT YOU REALIZE SOME MPs GET A HAND OUT FROM BACKING THE TV LICENCE !!

Couldn't care less for the BBC. Have been license free for approx 5 years. Haven't looked back at all. I wouldn't give money to the Saville protection league. Now they have Lineker who should just sit in the corner with his mouth shut!

Just think of all those TV licence goons crying because they have lost there jobs🤣

Every bbc problem/scandal is 100% self inflicted

JimmySavile, Rolf Harris,Stuart Hall,Hugh Edward’s . Just some of the Names to remember when the tv licence people knock at your door

I feel the same, I already pay sky to use their SkyGo service, the only live programme I watch is the F1 events that Sky own the broadcasting rights, but that somehow makes me liable to pay for a TV licence how? It literally makes no sense!

If the BBC had to survive without the licence fee tax it would have to be more user friendly to survive.