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Tv licensing
Olly_B
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Hi,
I know there's been a recent thread on this, but I'm doing an article for TheSite.org about TV licences - when you need one, what the deal is with watching TV on your computer/internet, what the rules are about the detection officers etc.
I'd like to put in a few examples of people'e experience, so if you'd be happy to share your thoughts, either drop me a private message or an email to info@thesite.org.
Ta muchness,
Olly
I know there's been a recent thread on this, but I'm doing an article for TheSite.org about TV licences - when you need one, what the deal is with watching TV on your computer/internet, what the rules are about the detection officers etc.
I'd like to put in a few examples of people'e experience, so if you'd be happy to share your thoughts, either drop me a private message or an email to info@thesite.org.
Ta muchness,
Olly
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Including ones that like to imply if you watch any tv on your computer then you *must* have a license (they neatly fail to mention it's only if it's live - you can use iplayer etc without a license).
They also are mind blowingly inconsistent and useless on shared houses. At one point tried to tell us that for a shared house of 4 people, to have a tv in each room and one in the kitchen we'd need 5 licenses, the next time we asked they said we'd need one.
I get their standard letter once a year, around September time.
Interesting. I did have a tv licence, and yet a licensing man came round, knocked on my door, pushed past me into my flat to see the tv, and read me my rights. :yeees:
You should have reported him for that, that is actually aggravated burglary (especially if you bang your head afterwards). That breaks so many laws, including the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. You'd have been within your rights to forcibly eject him from the premises.
TV tax collectors can only enter your property with a) your explicit permission or b) a court warrant. They never get b) so if the TV tax collectors pop round you just slam the door in their faces.
Now I have a TV I pay the TV Tax but I really really resent it. Especially when you see in the news that some stupid blonde cunt who can't even read the news properly gets paid £97,000 per year. MP's expenses are nothing compared to the leeching cunts at the BBC.
The money goes to the B.B.C. and they spend it on crap tv, pointless radio stations and average websites
And they also use it to maintain the national infrastructure which all the other stations piggy back onto.
Sure, the BBC turns out some rubbish, but they also turn out some impressively quality programming, make available websites such as news.bbc.co.uk that millions of people browse, and provide stuff for other channels.
12 quid or so a month is not a lot to get all that stuff, without adverts being shoved at us whilst we watch or browse.
And yes, the TV personalities might get paid high wages, but that's not the fault of the BBC per se, it's the amount that they need to pay to be competative with other broadcasters. I would expect that for every one highly paid person there's 100 people working for a lot less behind the scenes. That's just life.
Up until the 90s they had football viewing rights and international cricket. This would have been a bulky part of the budget but they have replaced it with nothing.
Im sure theres other examples.
There are many words one could use to describe this old chestnut, but bollocks is probably the best.
But even if it's true, the BBC is not a commercial organisation. If ITV want to pay Ross #6m let them, the BBC could then become a nurturing ground for new talent rather than the same old overpaid and underworked wankstains.
Simba, the TV Tax is something that gets paid to the BBC, who provide six TV channels out of the 600 channels that are currently operating in the UK. If you don't pay the tax you're not allowed, by law, to watch the other 594 non-BBC channels and if you break this law you can be sent to prison.
Here's the information on the TV licence:
http://www.thesite.org/homelawandmoney/home/yourplace/tvlicence
Best wishes,
Olly
The officers can't come into your house unless you let them, and even if you son't need a license most of them try and set you up on a weekly payment scheme because they get paid commission for it.
Haha if you need to know anything feel free to ask