Do you think the BBC licence fee is value for money?

I think BBC programmes are very entertaining. (Top gear for example. If they said they had to axe it because of the cuts then I'd be willing to pay it.) However, if it was the case that government paid half and we paid half, or people of lower salaries could earn the benefit of having half paid for them.

If this happened, it would be good. When do you think, if ever, it will come into use??

Yes

Not really no. I very rarely watch BBC and when I thought about what we do watch without fail the first programme that sprang to mind was Top Gear (as mentioned by Ryan). We really do love that programme and both me and my 11 year old daughter find it very entertaining. I watch the news occasionally but prefer to watch the news on Channel 4 at 7pm. Love Strictly Come Dancing too but I don't really watch a great deal and overall I think Channel 4 and ITV are the channels watched the most in our house. I would personally appreciate any cuts in the cost of the licence.

Definitely not good value other channels have superior programming and fund themselves through advertising. The BBC squander funds that are raised through the licence fee by vastly over paying certain celebrities and top officials. Not so easy if they were left to their own means.

i think the bbc licence fee is well worth it! :) i tend to only watch bbc channels and a few others :) plus id heard that some of the licence fees go to other channels

Whilst I think the BBC wastes a lot of money and does produce some awful programmes I wouldn't watch I know that other people do enjoy them. There are plenty of programmes they do that I love. Then there's radio. I love listening to Radio 4 and hate listening to commercial radio with the constant adverts. So yes, overall, I think it is worth the money.

I have mixed feelings. I think a lot of their productions are poor quality these days, but given the number of radio and TV channels and websites we get, it is probably a good deal. I just wish they would be a bit more rigorous in their productions.

I don't quite understand the whole BBC TV license fee.
We, having sky at home(which we don't have the paid services), why do we have to pay for it if we willing to not watch BBC services?

Are we paying for the transmission of watching TV or paying for the ownership of having the ability to watch transmission TV?

I would rather them set up a subscription service or pay as you go service for TV - in which you can pay for only the services you watch. - they may even receive more revenue from this depending on how they structure the price.

As for value for money, I don't think we are getting it. TV license works out at £110 or so per year. That's around £9 per month. Do you also feel you watch £9 worth of BBC programs per month?

I absolutely love Doctor Who, but watch very little else on BBC TV.
I do believe that the license fee is high for a compulsory payment, and that most of those paying it don't get enough value for money, and I think that paying the fee is a bit of an out-dated thing to do. With so many channels available (and for voluntary costs), one or two channels requiring 'special treatment' are no longer necessary.

No value for money whatsoever. I don't watch anything on the BBC so I am just paying it so that others can watch programmes on those channels.

I don't understand the principle of this fee anyway. I don't think there is such a fee in any other European country. When I told my friends in Spain they couldn't believe that we have to 'pay to be able to watch tv' as they understand it.

Yes I do, when you compare it to the cost of Sky. I like to watch quite a few of the programmes such as documentaries and the wildlife ones, it is great not having to sit through adverts every 15 minutes or so.

absolutely , I listen to the radio loads and love many of the BBC dramas etc. When you consider the alternatives, many are such mind candy and sky is so expensive and monopolosing!

I do watch things on BBc, but feel the licence fee is a bit high. I wouldn't mind having a few adverts in a programme if it brought down the cost of the licence.

Yes Jeremy Hunt has indicated that the licence fee could be cut from the current £145.50 and a review between the BBC and the government is due to begin next year. I watch mainly BBC programmes and enjoy not having the constant advert interuptions that are on ITV. For £145.50 it is comparable to the satellite and cable subscription channels and compared to some of the programmes I have seen in other parts of the world I believe it is good value for money. I would be terribly dissapointed if the quality and range of the programmes were reduced.

Yes. Especially for news and current affairs. Well edited and presented and the fee is worth it for that alone. The BBC is streets ahead of all the competition in factual programmes although I do think it has tried too hard to appeal to the mass market in recent years with some of its offerings in general entertainment.

I do think the BBC is something to be proud of but I don't necessarily agree with the principle of the licence fee. In recent years the BBC has made a lot of money selling programs abroad (not to mention DVDs) and have become a lot more commercial in that respect.

In principle I could have cable or satellite TV, which includes the BBC channels, and be paying twice. Also, you could, theoretically, never watch the BBC channels but still have to pay the licence fee.

We saw a piece on the news the other day about this and the fact that it may affect the quality and range of services and my wife and I in unison said "what quality"!!! Says it all.

Yes, i do. The BBC gives gives us some of the best quality programmes around...Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes and the sublime very recent Sherlock Holmes, to name but a few. And what about the excellent wildlife, documentary and arts programmes? BBC2,3 and 4 offer good programming too. The BBC is generally far superior to most of what's offered on the other channels, including the myriad of very substandard programmes thrown at us by subscription tv, with the exception of certain 'niche' factual channels like Military History, History Channel, Discovery etc. I know that's a very personal view, but the BBC is revered by broadcasters all over the world for its quality programming. Possibly the only channel that comes anywhere near to this quality is the HBO channel. Moan about it if you like, but you'll miss it when it's gone!