No TV licence fees, no inflated salaries

READERS may have received a letter from TV licensing; the letters are generated from a company called “Capita.”

At the time when the BBC announced they couldn’t afford to retain concessionary TV licenses to the over 75s, they paid “Capita” £100 million to collect unpaid licence fees? Pensioners are to be their main target?

The BBC has an audacity to charge £157.50 for a TV licence, when there are 100s of channels available, and so few are linked to the BBC.

The majority are commercial channels paid for through advertising. However, the BBC claims they need the licence fees to make new programmes? What tosh! For most of the year their programmes are repeats!

We all know why the BBC needs £3.9 billion; it’s to pay its programme presenters enormously bloated pay packets. An example is Gary Lineker, his pay is £1.2 million. They employ a few hundred on similar rates of remuneration.

Why is someone such as me expected to buy a licence to subsidise his lifestyle; when I don’t watch any sports? Others reviewing their viewing share that opinion. There’s only one programme I would watch on BBC, that’s Line of Duty! On a pay as you view basis; my TV licence fee should be down to about a fiver?

For other viewing; I persevere through endless hours of duplicating advertising.

Without licence fees the BBC would have to forgo its lavished pay structures, and start paying presenters the minimum wage! After all, millions of workers are expected to live on minimum pay, so why not BBC presenters, also?

Nigel J Starbuck, by email