Eurovision Song Contest

[JBR]

I asked how it is funded

• The "Big Five": France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom are the EBU's biggest financial contributors. Because they shoulder the largest chunk of the overall funding, their broadcasters automatically qualify for the Grand Final.

Obviously licence fee payers chip in big yet I bet few here actually watch it still. I certainly haven't in years even before I opted out of the BBC tax

Marge pays the TV licence (I wouldn't in principle), though we never watch the Song Contest as it is rather boring and, as mentioned above, primarily political.
If the BBC want to pay, that's up to them.  It will help to deplete their finances!

Apart from any of that, it is certainly not a song contest.  As others have said, it is a political support contest!

[klondike]

They are haemorrhaging money and suggesting they should be funded from general taxation when the licence fee review comes up next year.

[CHF]

Not watched it for years.

[Ruthio]

💤 😴 

[JBR]

They are haemorrhaging money and suggesting they should be funded from general taxation when the licence fee review comes up next year.

I'm sure that they are losing money.  After all, who would want to pay them (via their licence) for the crap they produce, and especially their biased incorrect news reporting?

Do any other countries have a national broadcasting organisation for which they compulsorily charge their people, whether they watch it or not?

Of course, I wouldn't put it past this Labour so-called government doing that.