TV licence fee excuses revealed
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22947160

I could come up with a few..:rotfl2:

If you think you are entiteld to get money for the sorry broadcasts with their primitive soap operas, low-class 'entertainment' and all the propaganda you pour at us through those TV truthmakers, come and try to get it, over my dead body ! :stare:
:arrgh!:

So, our British cousins have to buy a license to watch television!?!?

• Whisky
• Tango
• Foxtrot

Many years ago, one of my friend got borrelia and got blind on his left eyes.

After that he sent a letter to the Swedish license office and demanded to only pay half the annual fee

He proclaimed to only have one eye to see with.

His demand was refused


Markus

I am baffled by this. How is it regulated? Do they have TV police? How do you get caught? :hmmm:

Most european countries have TV licences, you on the other hand pay it through ordinary taxes regardless of if you watch TV.

Monsters from Doctor Who come out of unlicensed/unpaying TVs :yep:

How much is the license?
After you buy a license, do you have to pay for access to the television channels? :hmmm:

My excuse would be on the lines of

Your programs are utter crap too much reality TV so sod off I am not giving my hard earned money to watch a load of bollocks.

I find the bbc as a whole (tv,radio,internet, iplayer) very good and you can watch or listen without any commercials, I ofcourse would rather not have to pay but I really do not enjoy having something Im viewing peppered with adverts.

For those of you from overseas, the license fee here in the uk is what funds the BBC, we have other free to air channels and radio stations but these are all commercial and are funded by advertising revenue

eh!
you get to watch top gear!
150 pounds is hefty for TV, but eh...

i do not pay, for i do not watch.

Some of it also funds Channel 4.

You have to pay much more for cable or satellite TV, but the BBC is the highest quality broadcaster and the greatest bit is no adverts. I never ever watch adverts on telly, it's usually BBC I watch or if it's some other channel it gets recorded and they get skipped. :up:

I guess your BBC is like our PBS. Depending on donations to operate. Except you are required by law to support the broadcaster.

And ironically PBS runs BBC programs all the time. :)

Many years ago they used to say that they sent round vans with spinning roof racks full of electrical equipment that can detect if you were watching a TV

In reality they have a list of all unlicensed addresses and send round court empowered snoopers who can enter and inspect your property if they have reasonable grounds to suspect you are watching TV without a licence (A satellite dish on the outside of your property is probably a good example of reasonable grounds for suspicion)

What if you blocked out all the BBC channels or had a TV that could only receive non BBC frequencies. Do you still have to pay this tax anyways?

And how does watching TV programming over the computer monitor work?

Here.
• You only watch catch-up TV, not live TV. If you never watch a live programme and only watch a show after it has been broadcast via a channel's online player such as iPlayer (as opposed to watching it recorded on a digital recorder), then you don't need a TV licence. This might sound like an easy way to get out of paying £145.50 a year – but you do need to make a declaration to TV Licensing saying you only watch catch-up services and never live television (you'll be refunded for the time remaining on your licence if you paid in full). But TV Licensing officers may visit your address to "verify the situation", and while they won't disclose how they do it, they say they can tell if you've been watching live television. In which case, you could face a hefty fine if you've declared otherwise.
• You only watch movies and box sets on your DVD player, or streaming sites such as LoveFilm, Netflix, YouTube or Curzon on Demand. If you supplement catch-up TV with movies on demand that you either pay per view, pay a subscription for or watch for free on YouTube, then you don't have to pay for a separate licence. But, again, you do have to make a declaration that you are not watching anything live.
• You're 75 years old or over. When you turn 75, you are entitled to a free television licence, which will be sent to you every three years, provided TV Licensing has your national insurance number. There are also reductions available for visually impaired people and care-home residents.

No, your PBS also gets supported by tax money which you are required by law to pay.
So your "whisky tango foxtrot" really does ring hollow as you pay just the same as other nations do, the method is different but the funding requirement is pretty much the same.
Though the Brits can opt out of paying if they don't use the service, but you can't if you are a US taxpayer as it is all centralised.

IIRC August has Tribes blocked. So here's Tribes's answer to August which explains Augusts question.

:yep: