Whether we get Labour or Tories one thing's for sure - we must protect terrestrial TV
Story by Elizabeth Anderson - CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance
Access to quality television content is crucial for those in digital poverty. It provides vital information, education, and entertainment that we all rely on.
But today, this vital service lacks a long-term guarantee that its future is secure.
Terrestrial TV means that once you have bought a telly and paid your TV licence, you get access to a wealth of high quality content free to air.
Access to quality television content is crucial for those in digital poverty. It provides vital information, education, and entertainment that we all rely on.
But today, this vital service lacks a long-term guarantee that its future is secure.
Terrestrial TV means that once you have bought a telly and paid your TV licence, you get access to a wealth of high quality content free to air.
Hmm, so paying the annual TV licence fee makes TV free. Not sure how that works, but presumably digital poverty could easily be reduced by abolishing the TV licence.
Apparently, End Digital Poverty Day is scheduled for 12 September, so should he win the general election that's a simple, practical measure Starmer's government could introduce.
Meanwhile I've just spotted a porcine aeronaut zooming across the sky.
Apparently, End Digital Poverty Day is scheduled for 12 September, so should he win the general election that's a simple, practical measure Starmer's government could introduce.
Meanwhile I've just spotted a porcine aeronaut zooming across the sky.
9 comments:
Terrestrial TV means that once you have bought a telly and paid your TV licence, you get access to a wealth of high quality content free to air.
That is a much cheaper way of enjoying TV content than internet streaming, which requires the latest tech and a fixed high-speed internet connection.
True, that. Every Briton needs a guaranteed constitutional right to Strictly and that old duffer talking about global warming. Plus a couple of establishment news
and opinion sources.
And if it were my job to think that, I would keep telling anyone who would listen.
Abolish the licence fee and sell off the Beeb. Those are my policies.
Have a poke around on the Digital Poverty Alliance website. I guess not all of these people are salaried staff, or full time, but there are an awful lot of them - basically making making careers out of 'fighting poverty'. And (relative) poverty will always be with us.
I bet if the TV licence became 'free at the point of consumption' the Digital Poverty Alliance would start campaigning for a low cost or free Netflix subscription.
I atomatically think the opposite to any beeboid article on their website these days, and as I never watch any of their trashy stuff, I'm actually quite a clean and upright guy!
Strummer will keep them as his mouthpiece for the next five years, well, before he's found out, so beeboids had better get their pensions contributions right until 2029!
Naturally, I won't be paying them!
Sam - so would I, although I'd draw the line at actually watching 'Strictly' or Gary Lineker or the news or that old duffer...
dearieme - mine too, way past its sell-by date.
DJ - yes, once they are established that's it, whatever happens they will find new areas of digital deprivation to worry about.
Scrobs - it would be no surprise it Starmer pushes through taxpayer funding of some kind. It's what the BBC seems to be angling for.
"the Digital Poverty Alliance "
What will they come up with next. Got to pay those middle class mortgages somehow
Bucko - it's endless isn't it? Racketeering on a vast scale.
"Plus a couple of establishment news and opinion sources."
Trouble is, they only show repeats.
decnine - and hope people won't notice.
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