TV Licence Super Thread

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itchy said:
No they don't, you need to be connected to the internet for that.
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That's like saying cars don't have the ability to access the motorway unless you fuel them up and drive them there. Or that your Xbox isn't capable of transmitting a signal to a monitor because you haven't plugged an HDMI cable into it.

I am on a mobile network so how does that work?
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Er..... a mobile network is still the internet.

Edit: So I pay my mobile provider for my data allocation then the BBC for TV. Get to duck. :p
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If you want to watch live TV or iplayer on your mobile (or any other device) then.... yes well done you have figured it out.

You pay your mobile provider for data. You can use that data for whatever you like. But if you want to use it to get music from Spotify you also pay Spotify for content. If you want to use it to access content from Netflix you pay Netflix for the content. And if you want to watch live TV you pay the TV licence.

Rocket science it is not.
 
Fishbait said:
Got one of those too couple days ago. They've changed outside of envelope so it looked like it wasn't just more crap from them :/

P.S. Compensation? For what?
When do those of us constantly harassed get some form of compensation?
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You get compensation when you take them to court for harassment.
 
itchy said:
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Mobile phone are they having a laugh............ :p
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Why don't you just say you don't need a TV licence? /noTV
 
Never ever just tell TVL that you don't need a licence. You've got to be outraged about something and it might as well be the letters that could very easily be stopped if you just answered them.
 
mrbell1984 said:
Well if you doing nothing wrong there is no need to worry. If you don't have an arial plugged in and you are not watching live TV online you are perfectly fine. Block the websites on the router if you have too.
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That not true once you tell them you don't need a licence they know a real person lives there which can mean the harassment from them increases and they now have your name. Its worse if you are a single woman as you will get targeted.
 
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TJM said:
Never ever just tell TVL that you don't need a licence. You've got to be outraged about something and it might as well be the letters that could very easily be stopped if you just answered them.
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I hate it when people say that as its rubbish. Contacting them is a gamble as it only sometimes works and sometimes only works for a limited amount of time. It isn't just letters they sit out side your house filming though the windows, knock on your door and sometimes as often as weekly and the rest. Its not always easy to stop them, some of us had to go down full complaint procedures, remove TVL rights of access to our homes and/or court.

So please don't make it sound like its just letters and easy to stop them. TVL target certain areas and certain types of people.
 
Pottsey said:
That not true once you tell them you don't need a licence they know a real person lives there which can mean the harassment from them increases and they now have your name. Its worse if you are a single woman as you will get targeted.
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Pottsey said:
I hate it when people say that as its rubbish. Contacting them is a gamble as it only sometimes works and sometimes only works for a limited amount of time. It isn't just letters they sit out side your house filming though the windows, knock on your door and sometimes as often as weekly and the rest. Its not always easy to stop them, some of us had to go down full complaint procedures, remove rights of access and/or court.
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OK. I haven't had any issues but as soon as I do I will post here. It's been the 10th year this year where I have registered as no TV licence needed. I got 1 letter every 2 years or round about that. Never get emails or phone calls or letters really.
 
malachi said:
Have done for years but not going to happen right now. Free money from the older generation and non tech savvy.
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Not even that, the government (despite the odd MP trying to desperately get some votes) are aware of how much the TVL ends up subsidising other parts of the TV/Film and arts in the UK as a lot of the companies that are here and result in the likes of Star Wars/GOT being filmed in the UK rely on steady (if far lower paying) work from the BBC to keep the lights on between big jobs. Even ITV relies on the BBC to keep some of it's subsidiaries in work on a daily basis between it's own productions as they're done in their facilities/produced to order for the BBC by them.

The BBC also end up doing a fair bit of work that would otherwise require the government pay a private company or a specialist department for (BBC monitoring for example is essential for BBC news/current affairs but also saves the government having as many people employed to duplicate the work).

Every time the idea of doing away with the TVL us played with the likes of the commercial broadcasters start to say "no, no, we don't want that!" as a commercially funded BBC without the limits placed on it by the terms of it's charter (which would have to be completely rewritten to allow it to change funding methods) would likely hurt the profit margins, if not kill off a lot of the other broadcasters.
 
Werewolf said:
Every time the idea of doing away with the TVL us played with the likes of the commercial broadcasters start to say "no, no, we don't want that!" as a commercially funded BBC without the limits placed on it by the terms of it's charter (which would have to be completely rewritten to allow it to change funding methods) would likely hurt the profit margins, if not kill off a lot of the other broadcasters.
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I doubt t that very much, plenty of other countries have multiple broadcasters in existence without the need for a BBC to exist. It doesn't exactly require a huge change to the public service remit either, people tend to forget that Channel 4 is a public service broadcaster too. Things like BBC monitoring and the world service could be funded from taxation IMO, other parts of the BBC can easily be funded commercially and also subsidise the less commercially viable programming. The likes of EastEnders, Top Gear, Radio 1 etc.. could very easily generate revenue domestically, Top Gear already does so internationally.
 
Culture Secretary investigated for not having a TV licence.

Oh dear. As Culture Secretary, Karen Bradley is expected to foster and maintain good relations with both the media and broadcast industries. So, Mr S was alarmed to hear that Bradley recently found herself on the wrong side of the TV licensing company.

Writing on the infamous Tory MP WhatsApp group, Bradley complained to her fellow MPs she was being hounded by TV Licensing for not having a TV license for her constituency office. The MP for Staffordshire Moorlands asked if she was the only one having this bother – only to be greeted by silence.

A DCMS spokesman says Bradley has since explained to TV Licensing that she doesn’t have a television in the office. With not even the Culture Secretary above the law, Bradley best hope none of her staffers are watching BBC iPlayer from their office computers – an offence that risks a £1,000 fine…
 
I got an email from the licencing agency asking if I still don't need a licence.
I went online and filled their form, and received an email a few days later confirming that I won't be hearing from them as they are happy with my answers.

No fuss whatsoever, I have no idea why people here have so many issues
 
Deep said:
I got an email from the licencing agency asking if I still don't need a licence.
I went online and filled their form, and received an email a few days later confirming that I won't be hearing from them as they are happy with my answers.

No fuss whatsoever, I have no idea why people here have so many issues
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Why did they feel the need to ask via email if you still didn't need one when you've already told them as such?
That's just like the letters.
You can tell them, can show them that you don't need one, the letters will continue.
 
Fishbait said:
Why did they feel the need to ask via email if you still didn't need one when you've already told them as such?
That's just like the letters.
You can tell them, can show them that you don't need one, the letters will continue.
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Because they ask once a year and that's it
 
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