Television License

Slinwagh said:
I have had one of these letters recently, I do not have a TV license but my wife does for the address we live at. The stupid system they have should know this.
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Reminds me of the time two years ago when I bought a TV card for my computer to save space in my room at Uni. I bought the TV card over the Christmas holidays so I had it sent home.

Then was I was next home, at Easter, I got a letter from the TV Licensing Authority telling me that because I didn't have a TV licence for my address I had to get one.

D'uh! :rolleyes: I live with my Mum who does have a TV licence! D'uh! I couldn't believe I'd been sent a letter telling me to get a TV licence when my address already had one. And my home address is a family home, there won't be any record of it being a flat or anything like that.
 
my stupid bing of a gf just almost let the tv man in! I just got to the door and ushered him out. Bang goes my free tv. Even though i do not even have a tv aerial and pay to sky, my gf has made me pay for a tv license online now
 
Muffin` said:
I know all about the scare tactics they use, I have a TV, but I don't watch TV.
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Check the BBCs new scare tactics and some clever use of an aerosol :-

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http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
 
stoofa said:
Oh and as to the person who doesn't think warrants are issued by courts.
Yes they are - and on a quite regular basis.
All they need is "good reason" to believe you are using a television without a license and the courts will happily issue a warrant.
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Rot. Have you bothered to read the FOI responses on this subject?
17 warrants were issued in 2006.

Draw your own conclusions.

-Leezer-
 
Muffin` said:
I know all about the scare tactics they use, I have a TV, but I don't watch TV.
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Simple solutions, call them up and tell them that. I did, never once had that letter, but then I don't have the TV plugged into the aerial either. They said someone will come to take a look sometime, this was way back in summer, no one came, no new letters arrived...
 
I know I'm jumping a bandwagon, but I feel outraged having to pay anything towards tripe such as "Paris Hilton's British best friend" - I want to stab mself in the eyballs when I see adverts for such - I lack the expletive for this -
 
sup3rc0w said:
I know I'm jumping a bandwagon, but I feel outraged having to pay anything towards tripe such as "Paris Hilton's British best friend" - I want to stab mself in the eyballs when I see adverts for such - I lack the expletive for this -
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Agreed. Thank god this isn't on the BBC and that the Licence Fee doesn't go towards these type of channels on ITV ;)
 
RandomTom said:
I'd never want rid of the BBC though, or making it advertising based so I contribute.
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You wouldn't need to. The BBC can survive without the license fee without compromising production quality.

This could be easily achieved by cutting off some of the fat which has built up over the years; ie. mammoth salaries for people like Jonathan Ross, slush funds for managers and directors, and idiotic innovations like the Beeb's newly created Persian TV channel.

I think the BBC has forgotten that public money is supposed to be spent in the public interest.
 
i will never pay for a TV license! when those thugs come around demanding to see my TV i tell them straight! "a dun F'in ave won!" :eek:
 
magick said:
To turn off your TV and stop being spoon fed the mental equivalent of mcdonalds on a daily basis.
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What like the discovery/history channel and BBC News 24?

TV isn't all bad. It's like food you eat crap you'll end up fat, you eat healthy and it's all good ;)

Oh, and it's really ironic that it was you, of all people, who made that comment.
 
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