BCC TVL: THE true cost: UNBELIEVABLE

Hi Freemen,
Just been playing with a calculator and here's what I come up with. I am a Virgin Media cable TV customer and receive 165 channels from my TV package and have compared the cost per-channel- per-week with the 6 BBC Channels and Licence fee. Feel free to check my figures in case I got it wrong
Virgin Media: 165 TV Channels @ £27.50 per month (I actually pay £21.50 pm with a VM landline) equals £6.40 per week divided by 165 (channels) equals cost per-channel-per-week is: £0.03 pence; Ithink thats right but I'm not sure what my calc is telling me, but it could be one third of 1 pence for each channel. Any maths buffs out there to check it?
BBC: 6 TV Channels @ £142.50 per year (TVL fee) = £2.74 per week divided by 6 (channels) equals cost per channel per week is: £0.47 pence.
Sky TV offer over 200 Channels for £23.00 per month and is roughly comparible to V.M. for value.
If the BBC Channels came at the same price as V.Ms, the estimated TV Licence Fee would cost £9.36 per year, so where the hell is all the Licence revenue going? Given that the quality of BBC programmes are so poor they're not worth bloody watching and most of them are repeats.
I can cancel all my contracted (voluntary entered into) Virgin Media Services (TV, Phone, Broadband) with one months notice. Yet I cannot cancel/refuse the BBC programmes or Licence fee even though I don't watch the BBC. What I do know is that there is a massive difference between 3 pence p.ch.p.wk and 47 pence p.ch.p.wk. The BBC Channels are working out at over 15.5 times more than VMs or if you prefer; paying £1.00 for a loaf at Asda and paying £15.50 for the same loaf at Tesco. Extortion or What? I have surfed the Forum on the TVL issues but not all; if someone else has already thought of this, then my apologies.
Incidently, V.M. channals include all BBC TV; I take it then that if V.M. receive the BBC broadcasts first, then send them to me down the cable, then I must already be paying my licence fee to V.M seeing as the BBC signals are not being received via an arial. Any comments on that anyone?
James:
Just been playing with a calculator and here's what I come up with. I am a Virgin Media cable TV customer and receive 165 channels from my TV package and have compared the cost per-channel- per-week with the 6 BBC Channels and Licence fee. Feel free to check my figures in case I got it wrong
Virgin Media: 165 TV Channels @ £27.50 per month (I actually pay £21.50 pm with a VM landline) equals £6.40 per week divided by 165 (channels) equals cost per-channel-per-week is: £0.03 pence; Ithink thats right but I'm not sure what my calc is telling me, but it could be one third of 1 pence for each channel. Any maths buffs out there to check it?
BBC: 6 TV Channels @ £142.50 per year (TVL fee) = £2.74 per week divided by 6 (channels) equals cost per channel per week is: £0.47 pence.
Sky TV offer over 200 Channels for £23.00 per month and is roughly comparible to V.M. for value.
If the BBC Channels came at the same price as V.Ms, the estimated TV Licence Fee would cost £9.36 per year, so where the hell is all the Licence revenue going? Given that the quality of BBC programmes are so poor they're not worth bloody watching and most of them are repeats.
I can cancel all my contracted (voluntary entered into) Virgin Media Services (TV, Phone, Broadband) with one months notice. Yet I cannot cancel/refuse the BBC programmes or Licence fee even though I don't watch the BBC. What I do know is that there is a massive difference between 3 pence p.ch.p.wk and 47 pence p.ch.p.wk. The BBC Channels are working out at over 15.5 times more than VMs or if you prefer; paying £1.00 for a loaf at Asda and paying £15.50 for the same loaf at Tesco. Extortion or What? I have surfed the Forum on the TVL issues but not all; if someone else has already thought of this, then my apologies.
Incidently, V.M. channals include all BBC TV; I take it then that if V.M. receive the BBC broadcasts first, then send them to me down the cable, then I must already be paying my licence fee to V.M seeing as the BBC signals are not being received via an arial. Any comments on that anyone?
James: