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    BBC pestering the viewers, licence fee payers and website users Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on July 29, 2019, 1:57 pm

    Signing in to a BBC account and seeing more news from your nation
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/46619202
    The BBC is better when you sign in

    'By clicking on the "Sign in" or "Register" link on the news homepage you can login to a BBC account. Having a BBC account gives you a number of ways to make the most of the BBC. Find out more here.

    If you dismiss the message above without signing in then we'll remind you after a few days when you use the news homepage again.

    If you dismiss the message four times then we'll stop showing you the message. If you use different devices/browsers to access the news homepage then you may see the message appearing on each device/browser.

    The different BBC News homepage options

    By signing in to a BBC Account you can see more of the top stories affecting your nation, alongside the main UK and international headlines.

    The change we have made means that we take your UK nation (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales) into account in selecting stories at the top of the news homepage.

    This is an example of the stories at the top of the news homepage being different for the nations: blah blah.'     (There is yards more of the stuff)

    'Signing in' is obligatory if you want to use the BBC iPlayer.

    On the Sign In page there is a photo of Graham Norton grinning back. No wonder. The licence fee payers are giving him just under £1m pa. and more as detailed in the Torygraph.

    'Graham Norton remains one of the BBC’s highest earners, for his weekly Radio 2 show and other projects, although his fee for his BBC One chat show is not included in the figures due to a loophole that allows salaries to be hidden if they are from programmes made by independent production companies.'


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