13 Feb 2025

And Then This May Work...

   My little nest of vipers was watching the televisual receiving device yesterday afternoon and it seemed to be wall to wall game shows. The two - or was it three - shows wot caught my dwindling attention were on that BBC channel and all offered quite substantial monetary rewards. Wot popped into my old heed was where that money may come from. The answer was of course advertising revenue. Whoa! Wait a pocket pickin’ minute, this is the BBC, right? So it must be coming from wot folk are required to pay in televisual license fees. How cool is that then?
   With the ever dwindling number of folk forking out for a license thus revenue ever dwindling how about this dumb BBC idea.
You’ll have noticed that many charities have changed from give us x a month to join our lottery. This suggests two things to me; It will have increased money coming in and they already had very healthy floats.
   So BBC, as you can find money for game shows, how about you start a weekly lottery with many fine prizes? And the winners are drawn from? Why their TV license number of course. Offer many substantial winning chances and guess wot? There will be a good chance very many folk will be queuing up to get a TV license and a chance of winning some easy money. JD, you win again...

Quote; Bertrand Russell.

“Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”

2 comments:

A K Haart said...

That's a good idea, they could have to whole cast of EastEnders playing the BBC lottery as a way of advertising it and every so often one of them would win and clear off to somewhere sunny...

Hang on, that wouldn't work, according to the BBC everywhere will be sunny if we don't go for Net Zero. Oh well.

Mac said...

A K Haart,
They could just keep saying, 'A chance to win some cash towards your heat pump and an electric car.'