Performing Rights Radio Licence help

mr tommo

mr tommo

mr tommo

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I need to get a PRS licence to play the radio at work.
We just have one small radio playing in an office/reception.

Who do I need to get a licence off to play the radio? Is it just the PRS or do I need to pay the BBC aswell? Can I just get a licence for radio ONLY as we haven't got a television at work?
 
The PRS are money grabbing *****. They kept pestering my work about a licence even though we don't listen to the radio. If you say you do they base the price on how many people can hear the radio and how big of a room the radio is in. They also say you need a licence if you listen to unsigned bands and artists that haven't signed up with them.
 
mr tommo said:
Who do I need to get a licence off to play the radio? Is it just the PRS or do I need to pay the BBC aswell? Can I just get a licence for radio ONLY as we haven't got a television at work?
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The license is nothing to do with the BBC or television, it is simply money grabbing on the part of the PRS.

You also cannot buy a site license, it has to be one per room. We now aren't allowed to listen to the radio where I work because of the cost of these licences.
 
I've heard they've started hassling some of our sites. Surely there are better targets to go after than a radio playing in the corner of a scrap yard?!

PK!
 
Its probably just a backlash from illegal downloading and the musicians need to get the money they have lost from that.

Just rang them up and its only going to cost £70 for the year. He told me I may need to ring the tv licencing (even though I dont have a TV here) incase there is a charge for using some radio stations ie...bbc :confused:

I rang them and she laughed and said she hadn't heard of this before :o
 
Why not buy on decent sized radio and one crappy in-ear for every person in the office, then argue that everyone has their own radio and that no one has complained about the noise of the big one being too loud?
 
We've got a PRS licence but no tv licence, not even thought if we should have one to be honest. The PRS people got us last year, be warey that they are kind enough to back date it if anyone is stupid enough to admit that you have always had a radio !
 
I refused to give them a name, address or ontact number ;)
Told them it was a general enquiry look at set up costs for a business.
 
PRS are just doing their usual sweep of businesses atm; they started a couple of months back.

They phoned me:

"Do you listen to music in the office, sir?"

"Yes. I listen to original music that I make myself."

"Do you know that you need a licence to do that?"

"Do I? Who does the licence money go to?"

"We feed it back to the artists..."

"So if I listen to original music, created by myself, while at work...I need to pay you for the pleasure...And you will then pay me?"

"Er..."

"How much are you going to pay me?"

"I'll check this one with my supervisor and call you back..."

They never did :/

*n
 
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