TV licensing people are after me!

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Rainmaker said:
H I wonder if TVL/BBC have the power (or abilities otherwise) to gain information from Sky and/or Virgin Media as to whether a subscription is live at a particular property? Having wires and/or a dish doesn't mean you're using them... Just wondered. :p
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maybe, but that does not prove anything, as you are allowed subscriptions and can quite legally listen to the radio stations, without a license.
 
the bbc would have no problem funding it's self through commercials, it would just be very annoying.
 
For all those complaining that the BBC is rubbish or should fund itself through commercials, allow me to paraphrase Winston Churchill:

The BBC is the worst television network in the world, apart from all the others.
 
EVH said:
They can't "take you off the system".. only stop the letters for 6 months at a time.

I'm building a house and keep getting the letters and have rung countess times to get me taken off the system until I move in. At one point there wasn't a house there, yet they claimed to have made a visit!

I'd like to have seen that ! :D
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I've read on the internet about people who've managed to stop the letters for 3-4 year periods and that's without having to let the inspector visit your house which if he did you should refuse to let him in. They contacted the BBC TVL said they were not legaly bound to buy a TVL and said they'd removed the 'implied right of access' for the license inspectors and also requested there name be taken off the mailing database.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Tips for avoidng TVL-BBC harassment.htm
 
vonhelmet said:
For all those complaining that the BBC is rubbish or should fund itself through commercials, allow me to paraphrase Winston Churchill:

The BBC is the worst television network in the world, apart from all the others.
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Yes but if the BBC is so wonderful let them move to subscription only. Surely if there so great they'll have no problem getting every household in the country to pay £140 a year for a highly biased news service (eg global warming), a soap opera and a few documentarys?

I personaly don't think the BBC is good. It's bloated, biased, expensive, inefficient and a remanants of USSR ideology.
 
magick said:
Yes but if the BBC is so wonderful let them move to subscription only. Surely if there so great they'll have no problem getting every household in the country to pay £140 a year for a highly biased news service (eg global warming), a soap opera and a few documentarys?
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Any such move would require the mandate be torn up. BBC is the largest and most respected broadcaster in the world. you really want to lose that,
 
myself barely watching bbc at the best of times i feel i shouldnt have to pay a full years subscription if im only going to watch it 1% of the time.

most of the broadcasts on bbc are repeats and the programming has generally been viewed to be going downhill.. i hope they lower the tv licence to a respectable level as a result then i might concider it, or some low rate pay per view service that then tops out at the price of the licence eg £140.

out of all the licences i think the tv licence is one of the most ridiculous, its so easy getting out of having to pay for it i dont know why other people dont do it. i also bet that there are thousands of people who buy tv licences but then end up not watching and bbc channels. if i said im buying this tv but will never watch any bbc channels why the hell should i have to pay for something that im not using or consuming, utter nonsence.
 
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Amp34 said:
:D

Anyway, iPlayer, he was obviously watching it on his disconnected laptop, and as he is still registered at his parent's home address it will come under their TV licence... (AFAIR):p

or he was just watching it in another friends room...;)
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Sorry its got to be a battery powered device that is not able to be primarily powered from the mains (think removable rechargable batteries but no mains connection).
 
vonhelmet said:
So, having moaned in the other thread about the state of this country, it turns out you're a lawbreaker as well.

Brilliant.

Just GTFO.
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What on earth are you talking about? Tripe it seems.

Not everyone watches EastEnders you know.

Its pretty ignorant to assume that just becuase I have not paid means that I have broken a "law"

What "law" have I broken?

Under the very definition, I do not require a TV licence and nor shall I ever.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: for you im afraid chummy.
 
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