On Jun 13, 5:13*pm, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
Bruce wrote:

As a prime example of this, how can the BBC justify paying £20 million
a year of licence payers' money to screen The Voice? *Competing talent
shows on channels other than the BBC don't receive a penny from
licence payers.

Surely you could apply that argument to any programme produced by the BBC?
Why bother with soaps, other channels do them. Why bother with quiz shows,
breakfast shows, daytime tv? Why bother with news when the other channels
have news too?

Because by focussing on the areas that the commercial outlets do not
broadcast, or do not broadcast well, the BBC can do better for less
cost to the Llicence payer.

Among my friends who watch it, The Voice seems to be considered better than
the competing talent shows; better format, better talent.

But the BBC could excel at News, Current Affairs, Commedy,
Documentaries Costume Dramas, etc.