are we all getting fed up of the BBC?

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....

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.

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!

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.

Top answers chestnut.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

…..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 !

I only turn the ‘tele’ on at 6 for news…and as soon as I see a ‘celebrity’ I switch off!!
I watch Netflix mostly and only use i-player as a catch up! Tv is pretty much rubbish now .

I listen to radio 3 and 4 every day, watch quite a bit on BBC1 and 4. Still think the BBC are more reliable than the rest of them. Only watch news possibly twice a day because they are all dire and full of gloom and depressing. Never worth listening to any politician answering questions from a presenter as they are all trained in not answering directly and trying to shove their party politics and score points instead of addressing the problem. I would throw something at the tv if I watched much of that. Better things to do with my time! The backroom boys are trying to do the same as they are craftily trying to privatise much of the NHS, cutting off bits and pieces until it becomes unviable. I have listened to BBC worldwide when I lived abroad and it is still trusted to give the real news about a situation by people all over the world. Have been in conflict areas where people have said to me that they did not trust their own radio news and waited to hear the BBC news as it could be trusted. Lets get it back to giving a good service as it used to.

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.

Greyduster I have to agree. I cringed when watching it hoping it would improve. No wonder Scotland lost 1000 officers in 10 months if that is a portrayal of life in Police Scotland.

I gave up my license a few months ago as i could not justify the fee for the amount of live tv that i watched. i have a firestick to stream what i want to watch and also use netflix

I’m overjoyed if I only get remotely close to answering a question on Only Connect! I found the questions on the Christmas University Challenge difficult this year. The Christmas one is usually much easier than the usual one.

Glorianny

I've just watched "Only Connect" and now Mortimer and Whitehouse are fishing I really can't imagine that any commercial channel would view either of them as worth producing. And I love BBC sounds, so many things to listen to. Dead Ringers Christmas edition is brilliant.

Only Connect is usually brilliant (haven't seen tonight's) but last night, if you answered North or South to any of the questions, you were bound to get most of them right! 🧭🧭🧭

And as was said on Pick of the Year this evening, The BBC isn’t trying to sell you anything.

I've just watched "Only Connect" and now Mortimer and Whitehouse are fishing I really can't imagine that any commercial channel would view either of them as worth producing. And I love BBC sounds, so many things to listen to. Dead Ringers Christmas edition is brilliant.

Grantanow

Of course the BBC makes mistakes (as all the media do) and we find it annoying from time to time to be presented with facts and opinions we don't like but I would rather have that than the biased reporting by the Daily Mail and other newspapers (and the Guardian is not exempt from blame) and the attempts by the government of the day (that means both Tories and Labour) to frighten the BBC into being more malleable. A famous media entrepreneur said that it was the BBC which kept the rest of the broadcasters honest and I think he was right. One thing some folk can't understand is that the BBC has a duty of balance in presenting political and other opinions but that does not mean they have to be given equal time: it is noticeable that the BBC has stopped giving much space to climate change deniers - their arguments are so poor that they do not warrant being given equal time.

....and well said there too. Thank you above for the you gov survey. I do trust the I Player "reality check", it has been most informative.