We should only pay for what we watch on BBC

WELL done Nigel J Starbuck regarding your letter about the TV licence. I couldn’t have put it better myself (“No TV licence fees, no inflated salaries”, October 5).

It was only last Friday that I was talking about the same thing to my friends. Saying that if you wanted to watch programs on the BBC you should be able to pay as you watch.

I was only 99.9% sure that ITV and other channels got their money from advertising etc. I’m not bothered about watching the BBC news. I don’t watch Match of The Day, in fact I don’t watch a great deal on the BBC and it wouldn’t be a great loss.

If there’s a bargain hunt-type programme on I always say to the TV “that’s TV licence payers’ money there, spent on a load of junk”. The only people that do well out of that programme are the stallholders they buy the rubbish off.

Gary Lineker and Zoe Ball have taken a cut in their salaries, poor things, my heart bleeds for them. They’ve only done that so that the general public don’t start making a noise about it.

When you think what the NHS staff and all the other emergency services get paid and they do this country a fabulous service. It’s a total disgrace, I don’t know how they can appear on TV and radio knowing that because of their outrageous salaries pensioners and people that aren’t on certain benefits have to pay for a licence – do they have a conscience?

I think there should be a campaign to get the BBC to change to pay as you watch and I think Nigel Starbuck would be the right person to kick-start the campaign. Joanne Lawton, New Zealand,

Derby