Some thoughts on ´óÏó´«Ã½.com
Many thanks for your comments - we take note of all of them.
In response to two of the most frequently made points:
• We do intend to offer a subscription service for international users in the next year. However this will sit alongside the ad-supported service - so subscription-paying users will not see ads if they are logged in, but will do if not logged in. Most news organisations who have adopted a subscription only service are closing them in favour of ads. We would like to offer both, but have to ensure the business plan is robust and we have to undertake some further technical work before we can offer this.
• For UK licence fee payers who wish to access the ad-free site when abroad I'm afraid we don’t yet have reliable technology which would enable this. As with TV, for example, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ internet site will be ad-supported when viewed outside the UK.
´óÏó´«Ã½.com will be launching later this month.
Comments
Thanks for this. It's good to get some real feedback for a change. More please!
How about a free subscription for all license fee payers?
Some UK radio stations ask for your address when abroad before you can listen.
Following on from Peter Gordon;
We've all got TV licence numbers, could we use these (in conjunction with another identifier, such as a post code), as evidence of a paid subscription?
The simplest reaction of mine is
Long live ´óÏó´«Ã½ in any form
this of news for ever raging storm
- the diversity is one of the crucial features of your unsurpassed work
I must thank the ´óÏó´«Ã½ for this decision. I have lived a good life without a television for 30 years, and was just beginning to realise that the 'news' is simply the same things happening to different people in different places over and over again. Things that depress and things I can do nothing about. All my tears won't help.
Thanks for the advertising. I don't intend to waste a moment of my life being subjected to all that.
Now I can stop looking at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ news site and live a happier life.
haven't people heard of ad blockers?