TV Licence Super Thread
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At least it wasn't an ID10T code. they're the WORST!!!! .......... ^_^
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A barcode? The Davinci code? Morse code?
Call them up and tell them to be more specific dammit!
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look at tvguide, and it's just crap on TV these days. £40 for 3 months saving doesn't seem so bad. But do miss Match of the Day and Question Time.
BBC needs to be split up into public service and commercial aspects - or at least the funding needs to be separated.
One pot for the public service broadcasting. News, live sports, etc. General taxation for that would be fine, I guess.
But ffs, make them fund the absolute garbage they also produce with adverts/subscriptions. Everything on BBC3, for starters. Utter garbage and let them fund that dismal crap with ads.
I'm even on the fence about the public service part, tbh. The current BBC are so agenda-driven that I'm not sure even that part should be funded through taxation. The people at the top are more interested in pushing their various agendas than anything else, it seems to me.
I feel that somehow the BBC needs to be structured in a way that makes them accountable to the licence payers. Preferably via a direct subscription payment.
At the moment they’re independent from the government and yet are somehow funded by what’s effectively a mandatory tax. So they’re neither answerable to the government in any meaningful way nor do the public funding them have any input into how they’re run. They seem to be free to push an entirely personal self serving agenda IMO at the whims of those running the beeb.
If I can’t choose not to pay the licence fee (without forgoing the ability to receive any Freeview channel) then they need to be forced to be directly accountable to the paying public funding them via a voluntary subscription of some kind.
Ideally the infrastructure would simply be funded by general taxation as you’ve suggested.
The concept of a TV licence to fund channels directly is a relic of a bygone era. It’s no longer required or fit for propose in 2023.
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I'm glad they're calling it the BBC license fee which is exactly what it is.
news.sky.com
Very alarming words to be honest. Paying the license fee might become unavoidable.
BBC licence fee: Minister 'concerned' planned rise is 'very high' amid reports it could be scrapped
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says any increase in the licence fee - currently £159 per year - must be "appropriate" as people continue to struggle with the rising cost of living.
Very alarming words to be honest. Paying the license fee might become unavoidable.
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It is NOT a BBC licence fee, it is a TV licencing fee. It is a central Govt tax, nothing else. As usual the Tories are scrabbling aroung trying to divert attention from their abysmal performance and bad headlines. The attack on the BBC is a Tory favourite despite stuffing the BBC with their placemen. The fee has come after two years of no rises. Has your SKY/Disney/etc kad no price rises in that time?
It is used for the most part to fund the BBC, so colloquially it may be referred to as the BBC tax or BBC licence fee.
Caporegime
Rather than you having to prove to the BBC that you're not using their services the BBC's services should be inaccessible unless you pay for it, like everyone else.
Criminalisation until proven innocent is the only way the current model works which is why it exists like that, if they beam something in to your home whether you want it or not and then require you pay for that service unless you can prove you're not actually using it is a mafia way of conducting business.
Criminalisation until proven innocent is the only way the current model works which is why it exists like that, if they beam something in to your home whether you want it or not and then require you pay for that service unless you can prove you're not actually using it is a mafia way of conducting business.