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How do you complain to ITV about their football coverage?

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,373
    Algarveaddick said:
    Radostanradical said:
    Off_it said:
    So ITV have shelled out a shed load for their sooper dooper studio, but they've now had to relocate to a cupboard because of the wind! 

    Imagine the uproar if that was the BBC.
    Almost as if one is funded with public tax money and another isnt? 
    Even people who don't own TVs pay for ITV.  
    Depends what you mean by "pay for ITV".

    We pay to watch ITV,  because to watch it you need a TV licence. But none of that money goes directly  to ITV - they get their money from advertising, etc. 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,719
    edited June 21
    Radostanradical said:
    IdleHans said:
    Radostanradical said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    Radostanradical said:
    Off_it said:
    So ITV have shelled out a shed load for their sooper dooper studio, but they've now had to relocate to a cupboard because of the wind! 

    Imagine the uproar if that was the BBC.
    Almost as if one is funded with public tax money and another isnt? 
    Even people who don't own TVs pay for ITV.  
    Thats incorrect, no tax payer money goes to ITV. They are a private organisation that operates on as a PLC on stock exchange. ITV is a commercial broadcaster funded by advertising, ITV Studios revenue, and subscriptions, not by public taxation. Why do you think people who dont own TVs pay for ITV?

    The closest they get to any public money is they have to comply with UK public broadcasting rules which is maintained by a body under the UK government but that would be like saying waitrose is tax payer finded because they have to comply with home office rules.
    I took algarve's comment to mean that ITV is funded by advertising, which is built into the price of goods and services that people buy.
    Then literally everything is tax payer funded in the UK if thats how we choice to define it.
    Idle Hans is correct. I don't know where you got "tax payer funded" from in your answer? He didn't say that and neither did I?

    Advertising pays for ITV, licence fee pays for BBC. If I have no TV I pay no licence fee, If I shop at a supermarket or fly on a plane, part of the cost pays for advertising. Therefore I have no choice in the matter.

    Hope that's made it clear? 

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