BBC TV licensing

[marinyork]

Can't remember when I last came across such an incoherent rant on these boards.

We have CA&D to indulge these sorts of urges.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I'm happy to pay my licence fee.
I think we get some excellent programming, from dramas to documentaries and beyond.
BBC 4 airs some fantastic stuff and is an education. Love it!

 

[Glow worm]

I'd be happy to pay 50p a day for some of the BBC radio stations alone. I think the licence fee is great value for money. Just go abroad to places like the Italy or even the US and see how poor their broadcasting services can be to see what we could end up with.

I do have a problem though with some of the scaremongering tactics used in terms of threatening people with big fines for not paying the licence fee. The 'we know where you live' type strategy is very unsavoury.

 

[Davidc]

I think the TV licence is excellent value for money. At Sky rates it would be about £1500 a year, with adverts on everything!

I get the full Freesat package for about 50p a day.

 

[marinyork]

Just go abroad to places like the Italy or even the US and see how poor their broadcasting services can be to see what we could end up with.

I agree on Italy, their licence fee is 2/3rds of ours and Italian tv is poor. I could watch F1, football and cycling on Italian tv, there are some good dramas (usually historical ones about the south!). Other than the many films that appear from the US there there's very little apart from mad game shows and excitable current affairs programmes. Some of it makes Jeremy Kyle looked sophisticated.

 

[Spinney]

Some of it makes Jeremy Kyle looked sophisticated.

 

[Milzy]

Well it's turned out to be a good old debate which was the main intention before trying to save a few coppers. So I'm pleased with that.

 

[Smurfy]

I have been told by a few people that they can't track signals in a van outside from your house if you're on cable services.

Daily Wail, so may not be true!

Are TV detector vans just a cunning con trick? For decades it's been claimed they trap licence cheats. In fact, they've never led to a single prosecution

 

[User6179]

Daily Wail, so may not be true!

Are TV detector vans just a cunning con trick? For decades it's been claimed they trap licence cheats. In fact, they've never led to a single prosecution

Tv detector vans are very real!

 

[MontyVeda]

i wonder if they need a residents parking pass to park outside?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Actually, the law is even stricter. If you have a device which is capable of allowing you to watch or record live TV (i.e. installed) then you require a licence.

Which is the correct answer. Bugger all to do with if you use it for that purpose.

 

[RWright]

I sometimes watch BBC and don't pay the fee.

The idea of paying a fee to be bombarded with commercials and then convincing the public that is the way things should be, is one I find quite amusing.

I recently dropped my Directv satellite service and cable TV service. I can watch about anything I want to for free online.

 

[MontyVeda]

Actually, the law is even stricter. If you have a device which is capable of allowing you to watch or record live TV (i.e. installed) then you require a licence.

i smell BS ... is a TV licence required for a PC with an internet connection?

 

[Keith Oates]

I would just like to comment that as I've spent the last umpteen years mostly outside of the UK, for me to go home and watch the BBC is a pleasure that I relish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crankarm]

I think the TV licence is excellent value for money. At Sky rates it would be about £1500 a year, with adverts on everything!

I get the full Freesat package for about 50p a day.

I also think it offers excellent value. If it increased I would happily sell my bikes, cars, remortgage my house, sell my wife and kids, and all my other possessions. What an excellent service the Beeb supplies.