BBC News Reviews 2,973

TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Considering 111 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers found the news programs to be of poor quality, describing them as garbage and boring, often focusing on celebrity gossip rather than important events. Reviewers also criticized the online news app and website, finding them anodyne, difficult to navigate, and lacking in-depth content or real interest. The service was frequently deemed biased and not neutral, with many feeling it promoted specific political agendas and spread manipulated information. Some people were dissatisfied with the scheduling, noting that news broadcasts often overran without clear reasons, unlike other channels. Additionally, some customers found the international news outdated and the world service repetitive, while others were frustrated by the removal of access to certain content internationally.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Complete garbage news program. I trust what I read in the Sun newspaper more than the BBC. Editing conversations in order to fit their narratives, covering up paedophile rings, the list goes on.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I am so bored with the BBC app. Its online news is shockingly anodyne, with very little in depth that is of real interest. The coverage lacks any solid, in depth detail. Things that should be in the n... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I'd rather die than pay for any of your programmes , your adverts say you have to have a tv licence to watch all TV channels , thats wrong you dont own all the TV channels, so go beg some money from... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoids Telling The Truth. Whilst other main UK news channels report news in an unbiased manner, the BBC only reports issues that match their biased political interests. Trully shameful organisation t... See more


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The BBC used to be renowned for quality…

The BBC used to be renowned for quality and for impartiality.I am appalled at the ongoing deterioation in the news reported and as a Scot there is one particular presenter who always refers to Scotland as “Scotchland”coupled with the spelling and grammar errors on headers is infuriating .The gimmicks of Verify Live what a nonsense this suggests prior to that the news we have received is not factual .Thank goodness the BBC reinstated the BBC news presenters and there are still presenters who provide quality reports .

March 13, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

REPETITIVE GARBAGE

Sunday Afternoon BBC so called News.
How on earth can the BBC justify a price increase in their licence with repetitive garbage as on the afternoon of 9.03.25.
This is totally unacceptable and a population vote on whether or not these people should receive a large pay cut.

March 9, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

LIES LIES LIES

LIES LIES LIES

Nothing they report is factual. They have their own agenda which is largely anti-british. Hopefully it'll go the way of Sly News and be SHUT DOWN.

March 4, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

BBC can’t be trusted anymore

BBC can’t be trusted anymore. They’ve been caught lying repeatedly and clearly don’t care about their viewers. It feels like they’re more focused on pleasing their sponsors than providing honest, unbiased news. The once-reliable broadcaster has become more about agendas than delivering the facts.

February 27, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Corrupt, biased, lying hypocrites

The BBC.
Liars, hypocrites.
Far-left political bias.
Promoters of woke claptrap.
Producers of terrorist propaganda.
Hounders of pensioners who either can't afford the license fee or don't watch live TV.

Defund the BBC now!

February 19, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Gasht-e Ershad BBC

The self appointed morality police that is the bbc is now out of control with their vile character attacks on people who have committed no crime other than to offend someone many years ago. These attacks now take up more air time than real world issues.

February 10, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I hate the coverage on the BBC

I hate the coverage on the BBC - really unbalanced reporting & they do not represent Britain at all.

Forced to pay TV license & I have deleted my BBC Ap & now refuse to watch things that I actually like (6Nations, Apprentice & more) due to the fact I can’t buy in to the BBC culture.

Sack the lot and start again or just sell it off to someone honest and British!

Bring back honest reporting and stop paying big pensions to people on the register! Disgusting and disturbing!

February 9, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It feels like I’m watching aljazeera…

It feels like I’m watching aljazeera each time I watch BBC. I am very serious with my news and been paying attention to the news throughout my entire adult life. When I was much younger, an older friend recommended the BBC as the best news station so been watching it for a long time. BBC news always broadcasts news about the Middle East or Pakistan, Afghanistan etc . and even if there’re developing stories with conflicting priorities, BBC news will always find ways and means of defaulting to Muslim and terrorism news. Not that there’s something wrong with Muslims but there should be diversity in your news structure where news from all over the world should be reported not from just one corner or culture of the world. There’s no diversity when watching bbc news but I pay tv licence to watch news from all around the world. To analyse this, I flip through the different news channels around the same time to see what’s going on and whiles sky and GB news are showing interesting news from around the world, BBC news will be busy repeating news from this corner of the world and even during quiet periods when they’re showing documentaries, believe me, most of these documentaries are centered around this corner of the world. I know where to get aljazeera news if I want to. From now on, I have stopped watching BBC and watch Sky, GB news, CNN and other diverse westernised channels sorry.

February 7, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TV licence? There just Scrounging

I know it's not happening yet and just putting out the ideas. But the idea of charging people for streaming on netflix/YouTube and other platforms is just straight up robbery. If your company isn't making profit then make a change that won't screw over the people. A lot of the UK are now saying that if BBC dose charge for other streaming services then alot of the UK will stop with the services. And also sending out a letter every year just to make sure that I'm not watching TV? I have no interest in the BBC, you're shows are trash and your version of the news dose not interest me and alot of the UK.

February 3, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

BBC news reader

The BBC news reader Ms. Pentalow is abysmal. She stutters and stumbles through the news, barely able to read a whole sentence without making a mistake. There must be somebody out there more competent and less irritating than she is?

February 2, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Nauseous BBC WORLD SERVICE indian soap radio

I've been listening BBC WORLD SERVICE on internet radio around 6-10 hours a day\evenings, from Monday to Friday for the last 5 years.
And I have seen a very clear drop of quality on the service.
It was never great, but it was informative at least. Great coverage of COVID in the time of the pandemic. And always quite relevant in huge news happenings.
BUT, now this world service is 10% news, and 90% Indian or African "soap opera".
I don't mind these people being informed of whatever they like.

But as BBC legacy and importance, BBC WORLD NEWS should have a news radio channel with important relevance in all
continents of the world and general geopolitical happenings.
And ZERO personal stories and internationally irrelevant story telling.
It makes me nauseous the level of absence of intellectuality, it's like listeng the gossip radio of hair salons.

January 30, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I think it is truly disgusting how you…

I think it is truly disgusting how you are all sitting there trying to put our now standing president Trump down when he is doing nothing but trying to straighten out the mess that we’ve gone through since 2020. He was a citizen from 2020 to 2024 and he felt it as well. Our whole country is going down. We are a Third World country and you guys clearly love it shut up. I wish they would cancel your station. The blonde woman with the headset on she has no clue what she’s talking about. Women want to be treated like women and men wanna be men I have nothing against the gay community at all. And stop acting like you’re speaking for us because you’re not please stop. Also the young lady with the long drab, black hair and green blouse please stop speaking.

January 24, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bbc news

Bbc news, I pay a tv license, why does the news broadcast and interview it's own programmes and have guests from these programmes explaining there evictions from last night's traitors. I have no interest in reality TV shows. I want to see the NEWS. I am sick of seeing repeated adverts for BBC programmes. £169.50 for this monopoly of poor unwanted broadcasting.
This antiquated corporation needs to end and let people choose how to pay for TV.

January 18, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

no news

A fake news service for the brain-dead baby boomers. All over Brexit (Nigel) and yet very little coverage of the referendum for proportional representation!! The most important vote EVER. They never mention how the boomers have stolen their children’s future and continue to vote for things like Brexit. I am a boomer and ashamed.

January 16, 2025
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