BBC to cut more than 1,000 jobs

[Lethn]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33363225

An unexpected increase in the number of households saying they do not watch live TV so do not pay for a licence has been blamed for the shortfall.

Unexpected? I guarantee you that this was because of Top Gear ending. LOL!

By the way, yes, I'm happy about this, now we won't have to deal with as many of these state propagandists extorting money from the poor to pay for watching television.

[bryant.coleman]

Earlier, the BBC used to dish out the British propaganda. That was more or less tolerable. But for the last few years, they have been giving more importance to the American propaganda over the British one. This has lost them viewers in Asia, Middle East.etc. Also, the role of TV channels in spreading information is declining with the rise of the social media.

[jayce]

People nowadays don't watch TV for the propaganda news, they just bought a flat screen LED TV to watch sports and movies. Thats why CNN has lost their viewers, and otherwise ESPN, beIN Sport, Fox Sport, HBO, etc get higher attention.

[Tusk]

A sign that more people are finding the internet to be a better source for news and information

[tiggytomb]

 It's always sad to see people losing their jobs, I think they have been pushing their luck especially when people are subscribing to the likes of Sky and Virgin and the other cable providers.

The BBC simply cannot compete and their quality of programming is just not up to par, the news isn't worh a dime either.

[Lethn]

Part of their biggest problem is they're a government organisation, don't forget, so that means they are under lots of pressure from various political groups and have an obsession with political correctness. This means that they're too afraid to push boundaries and try new things.

They have also pandered far too much to certain groups over others and this of course has ended up backfiring against them very badly, good luck getting them to admit that. I for one would be absolutely glad if they either went private because the TV License is basically something that specifically targets the poor and they shouldn't be able to exist off taxpayer money when they aren't even making an effort to at least appear balanced in their debates and political conversations.