[Walter Sobchak]

Chris was talking about the licence fee today, do you think its worth it?
I think it is, in fact it's a bargain.

[Sidders]

It's worth it just for the BBC website. I don't think I could live without the BBC to be honest.

[Andy Bkr]

it is worth it but i think it should be optional

[fish heads]

The BBC would go bust within an hour if that came in

[Sidders]

Optional? How would that work? As if anyone would actually choose to pay it!

[Quincy]

it would be virtually impossible to make it optional.

[Andy Bkr]

understand your point but i think once everyone has to watch digital tv then i think it will become either a commercial or subscription service

[Quincy]

yeah for tv but the licence fee is used for radio and website as well. how can you make the radio subscription based? you cant

[Sidders]

It's a bit silly how you can own a radio without a licence though.

[Lucie]

I actually do think that the BBC do a pretty good job. I trust them to be objective, reliable etc...

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I'm happily suprised by the results of this poll. I think the BBC is needed and hope for the sake of the news programmes alone it stays around. You only have to see American News channels or Sky News to see that Commercial news channels have an agenda with every story they cover.

[Walter Sobchak]

It's worth it just for the BBC website.

Quite agree with that, whether just surfing,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wright/wotd.shtml
(I know this link is radio 2's but it's worth a look (had to listen at my old job))
or using the BBC for your studies,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
as my partner and children all do, that alone is worth the licence fee,