are we all getting fed up of the BBC?

…..My daughter is 45 with a 10 and 15 year old and she has got rid of her tv. Took them a week to notice. Too busy !

Sick of BBC wokery. They haven't had a licence from me or many of my country dwelling friends for a few years now. We're are all sick of their D list celebrities posing as countrymen/women whilst vilifying those who actually live and work in the countryside and manage the land. The anti farming brigade who would have us all becoming vegan and trying to survive on avocados grown under plastic and flown halfway around the world instead of eating lamb from sheep grazed within a ten mile radius.
All the programmes worth watching end up on Netflix anyway.

I don't have the opportunity to while away hours so I depend on the BBC for reliable and accessible news reports and analyses. For those I am very grateful for the widespread and insightful BBC reporters. Other news channels are not a patch on the BBC.

Callistemon21 - great idea re specialised sports channel for BBC and then they wouldn't keep rescheduling other programmes every time there's some sort of sport event.
Used to be a faithful BBC news follower but now find get a wider and more balanced view from other channels.
I think they should pay less to some of their so called stars and invest that money on new drama.

I hardly watch BBC, just record the odd programme, usually dramas of some merit like the upcoming Happy Valley and Taboo. I find I record and watch older programmes on other channels, just going through New Tricks. Watched them so long ago I can just sometimes vaguely remember the plots. The quality of the majority of programmes was so much higher, even if the technology wasn't. The BBC's demise seemed to start when they started broadcasting Eastenders, what a load of misery that is.

Hymnbook

The boy the mole the fox and the horse. From the book by Charles Maskery Brilliant!

I enjoyed it but it can’t replace The Snowman as my essential Christmas viewing.

MawtheMerrier

I’m not sure you can extrapolate from help or action line calls can you?
Viewing figures, perhaps, but I for one - and I am sure I am not alone - have never rung one of these lines after a programme.

Hear, hear!

The BBC TV sports coverage is, in my opinion, better than any of its rivals, and there are some gems in new drama and comedy. Radio 4 and Radio 4Extra cover all my listening needs; I regard my licence fee as being money well spent.

I do enjoy IPlayer and BBC radio, especially Radio 5live late evening weekday programmes, Colin Murray is very entertaining.
I’d like to recommend an IPlayer series I watched recently, 1985-1999 Traumazone. A series in seven parts filmed over 35 years in the Soviet Union and afterwards, it’s quite an eye opener.

I also thought that Granite Harbour was dreadful. It was amateurish and boring.

Chestnut

Terribull It does make me smile when programmes aimed at a younger demographic are made by the BBC because my perception is "they are either out or if they are in they are watching Netflix"

Well I hope they are not watching BBC3. I have checked it out a couple of times to see what they are putting out for young people and have been shocked and dismayed. It certainly didn't make me smile. It was either completely stupid or sex-obsessed i.e. six one hour episodes of Cara Delevingne exploring the female orgasm in graphic detail. I just hope 12 year olds aren't watching this. Is that what the BBC was set up for?

Hmm.. but by the time a child is 12 they will have had sex education at school. I think it's rather a plus that someone is telling them that girls like it too! Nobody ever mentioned that back in my day!

Top answers chestnut.

Mainly watch BBC - partly because of my technical ineptitude at finding other channels and ways of watching TV, but mainly because the BBC has excellent progammes. Good dramas, documentaries, comedy, serious quizzes, great coverage of Wimbledon (fingers crossed that they continue to support it). The BBC is by no means perfect, particularly in the way that they fall over themselves trying to maintain neutrality in news and current affairs reporting. I find Channel 4 News the best and like their journalists and more robust approach.

I love the BBC - its not perfect but it is unique in the world and full of great things. I think it really is a national treasure - long may it flourish!

Most of Radio 4 I find to be very low quality. Two people in a bed in the dark talking about any trivia, people like Claire Balding walking a talking in the countryside. As a result I often turn to LBC which can be very variable and I don't always want to listen to phone ins but it is often preferable to the dross on Radio 4.

It is more likely that people are finding the information they need from other places....Google for instance. One can hardly judge the popularity of a television station by the number of calls to a help line....

It is interesting reading 38degrees. They are suggesting that the government is trying to get rid of the BBC to private investors. IMO it will go to foreign investors with their own agenda , such as Murdock and we will loose our independent media. I do not buy a newspaper very often as I find MANY of them very biased. We need an independent BBC. rather than government controlled such as Russia, China, etc
I can not comment on the drama programmes as I don't watch any as OH owns the changer

There are still lots of innovative programmes on the BBC, and a huge resource on Iplayer. Radio 4 is a great educator, from women's issues, news, comedy, literature and political debates. I would hate to be without it.

Paperbackwriter

Chestnut

Terribull It does make me smile when programmes aimed at a younger demographic are made by the BBC because my perception is "they are either out or if they are in they are watching Netflix"

Well I hope they are not watching BBC3. I have checked it out a couple of times to see what they are putting out for young people and have been shocked and dismayed. It certainly didn't make me smile. It was either completely stupid or sex-obsessed i.e. six one hour episodes of Cara Delevingne exploring the female orgasm in graphic detail. I just hope 12 year olds aren't watching this. Is that what the BBC was set up for?

Hmm.. but by the time a child is 12 they will have had sex education at school. I think it's rather a plus that someone is telling them that girls like it too! Nobody ever mentioned that back in my day!

You think we should be giving a 12 year old girl six hours education on how to have an orgasm?

bevisp1

No not at all. Between this & other channels there’s plenty to watch. I wonder if the viewing ratings are much lower because of all the other streaming channels, ie 5 of our adult children all rely on Netflix, Disney+, apple, Brit box, Amazon etc.

Your adult children must be well off if they can afford all those channels because they all have to be paid for. The average family might find all that too expensive.

Well here is one person who won’t be watching the next series of Strictly. All the gushing, screaming and fawning really got on my nerves, so American. There’s not much on any of the terrestrial channels worth watching, although occasionally they come up with something good. As someone said they certainly need to sort out the sound to music ratio, or is it just me??

I love the BBC and use many of its services in addition to the TV channels. I would really miss it if we lost it.

I cancelled my tv licence a couple of years ago. The BBC has changed, and not for the better. Certainly not worth the cost of a tv licence. I read news online, and I have realised I have very little time for watching TV. I occasionally watch Netflix.

Very disappointed in their Radio 2 shake up.
The removal of Steve Wright in the Afternoon was a huge mistake. The new presenter is woeful and the choice of music even worse.

BBC phone line - difficult to get anyone to pick up.
New Year Hogmanay programmes have been insulting. So very sad.

Love the BBC, only channel I regularly watch. Maybe a few dramas on a SKY channel, but I hate all the commercials, so much quality and choice. No contest in my opinion