Re: BBC from the days of Yes Minister and Spitting Image - yes
@AC:"If it was the BBC from the days of Yes Minister and Spitting Image - I would have continued paying the tax without grumbling for a split second."
Spitting Image was on ITV, which doesn't receive a penny from TV licence fee revenue.
I once heard the argument from a media type that, by not selling advertising and taking a chunk of that finite pool of money, the BBC was in fact supporting commercial broadcasters.
Which is of course grade-A bollocks...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
