http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/
The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.
The BBC provides 8 interactive TV channels, 10 radio networks, more than 50 local TV and radio services, the BBC’s website, and the on-demand TV and radio service, BBC iPlayer.
I resent paying the license fee because, to be honest, I don’t watch linear broadcast television. I multi-task my time near the television so that my attention is elsewhere during ad-breaks, I time-shift my media and frankly I’m not interested in Eastenders, Strictly Come Dancing or any of the other prime-time programming.
So. I’ve been paying the license fee all these years – and there’s currently a project to digitise all of the BBC’s analogue content – shouldn’t this material be available to me? It’s being funded by me, why can’t I watch it when I want?
They need to open the walled garden…