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AnalogPackrat said:
Thanks for the explanation. One wonders why government mandated "fees" are needed at all. Can the broadcasters not run a business on their own revenue streams like in other free countries?
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That is highly debatable. Broadcasting obviously needs funding. There are three ways this can happen.

1. Advertising in which case the programme content and political leaning is heavily influenced by the biggest advertisers.
2. The state, in which case it is little more than a propaganda outlet for the incumbent government.
3. A licence fee paid by those who wish to receive the broadcast. This was the original model for the BBC which was mandated by government to "inform, educate and entertain". It led to many years are arguably the best broadcast material in the world. Its model has recently been corrupted by allowing the BBC top generate revenue from alternative sources but the orignal priniple is sound.

Cheers

Ian
 
ruffrecords said:
That is highly debatable. Broadcasting obviously needs funding. There are three ways this can happen.

1. Advertising in which case the programme content and political leaning is heavily influenced by the biggest advertisers.
2. The state, in which case it is little more than a propaganda outlet for the incumbent government.
3. A licence fee paid by those who wish to receive the broadcast. This was the original model for the BBC which was mandated by government to "inform, educate and entertain". It led to many years are arguably the best broadcast material in the world. Its model has recently been corrupted by allowing the BBC top generate revenue from alternative sources but the orignal priniple is sound.
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Why must there be a government mediated license fee as the only alternative to advertising or state propaganda? I remember when premium cable TV here was paid for by subscription fees and advertising was minimal or zero compared to broadcast. The increase in advertising minutes per hour is a big part of what drove people to streaming and online content. Clearly there is demand for subscription services with zero or minimal ad time.

ruffrecords said:
Cheers

Ian
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Matador said:
The free market will always yield the best solution...except for the totally biased private media which can't be trusted, because they are beholden to advertising!
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Well, since the government regulates and controls broadcasting, it's not really a free market. Online and streaming were driven by innovation and market forces rejecting the increasing ad time and less interesting/useful content. But keep pushing that Marxist narrative.
 
AnalogPackrat said:
Why must there be a government mediated license fee as the only alternative to advertising or state propaganda? I remember when premium cable TV here was paid for by subscription fees and advertising was minimal or zero compared to broadcast. The increase in advertising minutes per hour is a big part of what drove people to streaming and online content. Clearly there is demand for subscription services with zero or minimal ad time.
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Are you trying to tell me that government in no way regulated premium cable TV? They would not be able to operate without a licence from the government jut like the BBC. The models are near identical.

Cheers

Ian
 
ruffrecords said:
Are you trying to tell me that government in no way regulated premium cable TV? They would not be able to operate without a licence from the government jut like the BBC. The models are near identical.
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I don't know about UK/Europe, but in the US over-the-air broadcast is much more regulated. First there's all the RF spectrum stuff, then content (no nudity, limited profanity, etc.). There used to be regulation of ownership (to avoid monopolistic control), but much of that has been eliminated.
 
Independent journalism in the USA:

"Articles produced by Sinclair's National Desk are published at the exact same time on every local website. The June 10 article, for example, was published on each website at exactly 9:24 AM Eastern. This suggests these articles are automatically syndicated, and local journalists at affiliates are not able to exercise editorial discretion. When these articles are syndicated, they appear alongside identically formatted articles on local government, weather, and sports."

https://popular.info/p/sinclair-floods-local-news-websites

"Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households), and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW.

A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#cite_note-:1-4
 
AnalogPackrat said:
Why must there be a government mediated license fee as the only alternative to advertising or state propaganda? I remember when premium cable TV here was paid for by subscription fees and advertising was minimal or zero compared to broadcast. The increase in advertising minutes per hour is a big part of what drove people to streaming and online content. Clearly there is demand for subscription services with zero or minimal ad time.
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A mandatory licence fee enables forced censorship on its consumers, it is also dumb's down peoples ability to critically think ,and reason for themselves.
This is also true of subscription based (pay for your own brainwash), Sky in the UK is second in line to the BBC for various articles of biased misinformation.
Most will conclude they are the fact checked arbitors of truth.
I prefer to have an open mind and diseminate my own information, rather than emotional based media garbage !
Indeed there are subscription services in the UK that give purely balanced views, unfortunately demonised and misrepresentedb by the mainstream.
I regularly watch this for a wider view that the MSM would never cover, and its free for the main news/articles
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
 
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Actually my first goto read most days, although some articles are linked from the MSM, the main jist is from some very good real investigative journalists.
The expose has some good articles, but would be branded too "conspiratorial" for most closed minded MSM readers o_O
 
I've spend 25 years as a broadcast tech / operator behind the screens.

All of it is government propaganda, and advertising consealed as light entertainment.
It's all lies.

It has always been so, though it used to be quite "innocent" and I have seen it transition to what can only be called "misleading and false"

I don't have TV or Radio for 20 years now, it's a cultural sewer that spews it's junk into your private home, why would you want that ?

In the 50's we had our own CIA show on the radio, called "The Answerman" it was US propaganda to steer people away from communism and socialist ideologies.

People in the US probably heard about "operation mocking bird" ?

Oh, can someone explain to me what a "Cheap Fake !" is ?



And yes, in the old days the BBC produced some outstanding documentaries, really top notch work !
 
Cheap ! :D

That's bullshit and you know it...

And if you really think that, you're probably using it wrong.

Because that's why you are here, to find your schematics and parts and likeminded people.
An uncensored internet (with a load of add blockers) is nothing but a means to freely share information with anybody on the planet, and it's a wonderfull thing isn't it ?
That part that is no longer produced, you'll find it on ebay.

I've found amazing people on the internet, who are my friends now.

Yes, all the idiots are also on the internet, I don't mind, freedom for all !
 

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