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Mrs P and I were at the cinema on Saturday night, enjoying our popcorn. And then this popped up on screen:
I wonder if this is the ticking-bomb which will finally destroy the BBC. Perhaps idiotically, I've never really thought about Radio One when making my case for the end of the licence fee. And yet it is, obviously, the single biggest stick in our armoury.
It's possible to make a case for the forced funding of Radios 3 and 4, on the (spurious, I would argue) basis that the market wouldn't fund similar channels. But Radio One?
The radio is full of almost nothing but Radio One clone stations The channel's existence is a standing affront to every licence payer. And as if its very presence on the BBC platform isn't bad enough, along comes this advert. Only a bloated coroporation would even think about making and paying for a four minute long advert for the cinema. Four minutes! Not even Coke has four minute long adverts.
There can be no clearer demonstration of the BBC's scandalous waste and unfitness for purpose than this advert. And every time it is screened, that's a point which more and more people will get.,