TV licence thread

[Janus 28]

If they call round I'll show them last year's license. If they're not happy I'll point out that a lot of the programs are last year's. 

[L00b 441]

Corporate estate isn't cheap in downtown Amsterdam or Brussels 

[iansheff 88]

14 hours ago, Janus said:

If they call round I'll show them last year's license. If they're not happy I'll point out that a lot of the programs are last year's. 

Didn't the BBC schedule over Xmas have over 40% of repeats? I rarely have the BBC on these days apart from the news and the occasional programme. They seem to think that people want to watch quiz shows, repeats and shows like Homes under the Hammer. it is time that the BBC was an option that can be bought if you want it, just like Sky you can pay for the channels that you want to watch.

[Janus 28]

I think only a tiny minority would be willing to pay for the BBC given the choice, especially when there are all them free view chanels.  I also think the organisation know that too.

 

Isn't it an offence not to have a licence? I think  we are supposed to have a license for anything that can receive their broadcasts-including a smart phone. 🙈

[Car Boot 10]

More than 860,000 TV licences were cancelled in 2017-18, compared with 798,000 in 2016-17. 

 

Poor quality programmes, an increasingly expensive BBC TV Licence fee and greater choice elsewhere are driving people to scrap the BBC and dump the outdated and regressive BBC TV Licence fee in the dustbin of history.

 

This is 2019, not 1979. 

[bendix 10]

I won't be renewing my license this year.

 

I stream any terrestial tv through an IPTV subscription.  But even that is a fraction of what I watch.   I'm not wasting money on it anymore.

 

If CB's figures are correct, then the costs of chasing down non-compliants is going to exponentially higher than the income they get from it.  Bugger that.  I'm not giving my hard-earned cash up to any organisation that calls Andrew Neill a journalist. 

[PRESLEY 1,228]

On 02/02/2019 at 17:47, El Cid said:

Whilst the rich pensioners got it for free?

I hope you dont mean the hard up Royals 

[Janus 28]

Car boot,

 

860,000 is a lot. I wonder if people are just not watching TV,  or maybe these people just don't bother about a license any more. I don't hear about people being prosecuted on a grand scale. 

 

They used to say even if you have a video recorder and no TV you still must have a license, as the video can receive the signal being transmitted.

[irishill 0]

how can we be rich pensionerswhen we can't afford to have the heating on full or the gas you talking through the top off your hat you will be old yourself one day so shut your gob

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

2 hours ago, irishill said:

how can we be rich pensionerswhen we can't afford to have the heating on full or the gas you talking through the top off your hat you will be old yourself one day so shut your gob

Boom boom, direct hit on the target.🤣🤣  Nowt like been direct.

 

Angel1.

[apelike 10]

On 04/02/2019 at 17:02, bendix said:

I won't be renewing my license this year.

 

I stream any terrestial tv through an IPTV subscription.  But even that is a fraction of what I watch.   I'm not wasting money on it anymore.

Watch it with that as you may still be liable to pay it even if it is streamed.

[spilldig 188]

18 hours ago, irishill said:

how can we be rich pensionerswhen we can't afford to have the heating on full or the gas you talking through the top off your hat you will be old yourself one day so shut your gob

Exactly that, seeing as the British old age pension is the lowest in the civilised world. The normal working week in this country whilst I have been working, is 40 hours. 

The government states a minumim of 8 pounds 21p per hour so therefore every pensioner should be on a minimum of 328 pounds 40p per week,  otherwise it is  less than the amount that the government states as  a minimum. Then perhaps it would enable OAPs to have a decent standard of living, and the government to stop treating them like second class citizens with gimmics like free tv livences and bus passes with strings attached, etc.   As for the disgusting BBC it should have been wound up years ago.