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BBC.co.uk Reviews Summary

The BBC is a British public service broadcaster that provides news, sport, weather, TV and radio highlights, and more from across the whole of BBC Online.

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Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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BBC has become the headstone of antisemitism and antisemitic propaganda. Al Jazeera North should be it's name. Why must news from Gaza head up every newscast when the Russians are doing things much worse in the Ukraine. A pox on the BBC

Date of experience: November 5, 2023
GB
59 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Charity scams.
August 25, 2023

The bbc are currently been investigated foe online charity just giving scams. They are now currently investigated for money laundering and fraud

Date of experience: August 25, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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News app is awful
August 5, 2023

Dreadful update to the news app. It is now awful, won't use it any more, change it back, it's rubbish

Date of experience: August 5, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Gang of paedophiles
September 7, 2022

Jimmy saville, Rolf Harris, Gary glitter and many more of their production team are coming to light now.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Florida
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Amazing site
December 20, 2021

Great website. I just enjoy using it. The look and feel are amazing. It is very informative it has helped me a lot.

Date of experience: December 20, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not bad
December 2, 2021

Normal source, but sometimes there are really not important pieces of news. I want to read more information about political situations in the international area.

Date of experience: December 2, 2021
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The BBC is a disgusting, immoral organisation that is ripping off over 75's by stealing their free tv licences. The BBC agreed a financial settlement with the Tory Government in 2015 in which they would be allowed to raise the cost of the tv licence each year in return for maintaining free tv licences for over 75's. The BBC has reneged on this deal by scrapping over 75's free tv licences yet it is still raising the cost of the tv licence each year. Boris Johnson is a total disgrace as he promised during his election campaign to keep free tv licences for over 75's yet since his election victory, his silence on this issue has been clear for all to see.

Boris Johnson needs to grow a spine and emerge from under the rock where he is hiding and do the honourable thing and reinstate free tv licences for over 75's as the UK is a rich country that can easily afford this small concession to pensioners and war veterans who have given a lifetime of service to this country. Welfare policy such as who should receive a free TV licence is the responsibility of elected government's (ie The Department of Works and Pensions in UK government) and not an unelected quango such as the BBC. The decision to scrap free tv licences for over 75's sits squarely in Boris Johnson's in tray as he is PM and head of all government departments including the Department of Works and Pensions. The 'buck stops with Boris Johnson'! Every group in society, apart from pensioners, have been given a financial bailout during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet it is the over 75's who are most seriously affected by this disease and who have suffered the most, yet Johnson's government has given them zero financial help. Immigrants that flock to the UK illegally are treated far better than over 75's who have paid a lifetime of taxes in the UK and immigrants are given more state handouts and freebies, at the taxpayers expense, than most of us could ever imagine. This government needs to wake up and stop treating the over 75's like dirt and maintain their well deserved free tv licence.

The corrupt BBC is squandering £12million of licence payers money on settling the tax bills of some of its tax dodging autocue readers and £100million on diversity and over £80million wasted on a new 'Eastenders' set. Its waste is obscene. It is preying on and bullying the over 75's who are some of the most vulnerable in society to pay for this waste and maintain all the BBC non entities on lavish salaries and gold plated pensions. Such is the waste at the BBC that it employs 10 people for each job.

I strongly urge all over 75's to not pay their tv licence fee from August 2020. Such a mass civil disobedience campaign will bring this issue to the top of the political agenda and force desperately needed change on the corrupt organisation that is the BBC - Britain's Biggest Con. If all over 75's refuse to pay the tv licence fee, the Courts would be totally unable to cope with prosecutions on this scale and Boris Johnson's hand would be forced and he would have to deal with this issue immediately instead of ignoring it. Pensioner power can end the corrupt tv licence fee. The BBC has got away with fleecing the UK population for far too long. This must end now!

#DEFUND THE BBC - CANCEL YOUR TV LICENCE AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN'S OVER 75'S

Date of experience: July 18, 2020
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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If penny pinching lack of empathy for over 75s is the BBC objective then achieving alienation of loyal viewers is a success. Lack of programme quality is rife and even small things like updating text such as errors of fact misplaced geographical postings and total failure to monitor the obvious inaccuracies tells us they don't care.

Date of experience: June 6, 2020
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Untrustworthy
April 29, 2020

Likes to create news rather than report it, self praising, biased against sections of the community that do not subscribe to all its mantras. Creates hatred and through biased reporting, marginalises And alienates people with a valid but different view. Hides news it sees as counter to its pre determined aims and agendas. Hypocritical.

Date of experience: April 29, 2020
GB
6 reviews
50 helpful votes
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The BBC always follow the leftist path when it comes to reporting on poltical and major world events.

They may throw in a lot of meaningless junk as filler inbetween which would be considered unbiased and factual, while also useless.

Unfortunately the British people are still forced into paying for the garbage produced by the BBC, when it fails to represent the views of the majority of the public at large, Hense why they disable and block comments when it comes to their content.

Hopefully as their viewership continues to decline, they will realise the error of their ways and make a change for better, I won't hold my breath tho.

Date of experience: October 22, 2018
GB
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Its a great website however there is not enough content compared to other news websites like CNN etc. Would prefer also if they created a different section just to cover brexit as i think is taking to much space taken up and its now just boring

Date of experience: October 19, 2018
France
8 reviews
31 helpful votes
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Basic
August 10, 2018

A basic news website, with surprisingly thin coverage, even of UK news.
The news is given in no detail, but is inclined to exaggerate the "news" value of its reports. It seems politically neutral, but in fact it reports the mainstream, and avoids anything controversial. A lot of the reports are banal and you wonder how it ever got passed by an editor.
This is not a newspaper site. If you want journalism go elsewhere. If you want stuff that is short and easy to read, go to the bbc.

Date of experience: August 9, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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What a great service
April 20, 2018

What a great service, to be able watch back, online, programs that have aired on the BBC over the last seven days. Really useful if you have a busy social schedule

Date of experience: April 19, 2018
Portugal
7 reviews
23 helpful votes
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BBC world news is the new Fox News. It covers in full every press conference trump gives.
Sometimes he's on for 20 minutes just rambling. Tonight nothing positive about the Democratic convention. Instead? A headline TRUMP OUTSHINES THE DEMOCRATS. WHY? Because he called on the enemy of the free world, Putin, to find Hilary Clintons lost emails. He already got the Russians to hack the DNC. The BBC IS BACKING TRUMP ALL THE WAY. DISGUSTING!

Date of experience: July 27, 2016
GB
14 reviews
63 helpful votes
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They're a joke
March 2, 2016

While all is honky dory for anyone outside the UK, Those who live in the UK are being pestered on a daily basis by TV licence goons going round people's door's, thumping windows as well as your front door and threatening them with a £1000 fine or prison or both because you don't have a TV licence. The price the BBC expects you to pay for even owning a TV, whether you watch live TV or not is £145.50. Your having to pay that on a yearly basis. Even if you only use a telly for playing video games from a console, your still expected to buy a licence. Yes, I know, that is why I titled this review as a joke, because no doubt, many of people who don't live in the UK will be reading this will be literally rofl, but it is right, the BBC are nothing but bullies, if you don't have a licence in owning a telly, your actually breaking the law..

Date of experience: March 1, 2016
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The BBC Australia shop is terrible. I ordered an item on Dec 7, which was supposed to arrive prior to Christmas. It never came. I did not receive any email about the item. There was no proper tracking advice. Five weeks later and I still have not received my item. After finally getting through to their Customer Service line, they said that the item was not in stock and now they have to wait for a shipment. So they never even had my item in stock, and they illegally advertised it in the first place. Terrible Customer Service! No offer to send it free of postage or make any amends for their error and illegal online behaviour.

Date of experience: January 10, 2016
GB
11 reviews
17 helpful votes
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If you want real news not tainted by the long arm of media moguls, this is the site for you.

Date of experience: April 17, 2014
Denmark
5 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Simply love it
March 9, 2014

Simply love it. The website design and usability is epic!

Date of experience: March 9, 2014
GB
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Excellent site!
November 29, 2013

Excellent site! Full of great up-to-date information and very easy to use.

Date of experience: November 29, 2013
Canada
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Great site, seems to be first with news stories most of the time. One complaint is their poor coverage of Canadian news.

Date of experience: October 29, 2013