anyone jacked in the tv licence ?

[redlig]

So it would appear that there's only me, @m_c and @indy4x that have actually got a TV licence then, and I'd get rid of mine and the TV if it wasn't for the Mrs being addicted to it. I guess that tells us something about the state of British TV.



Channel 4 seem to be capable of making some decent programming without a licence fee, so the argument that the BBC need the money to make good stuff is a bit flawed there. As is the lack of adverts on the BBC, because from the little I've seen of it over the last few years, they spend most of their time advertising their own drivel.

Is Channel 4 not commercially and therefore subject to adverts. Asking as I don't knowingly watch it. As for BBC at least their program standard is better (just) than endless mindless B****y adverts which is what we will get if we all refuse to pay. Someone has to fund the rubbish or the Gov will step in and we get we get more drivel but with a 'slight' Gov bias.

 

[Morrisman]

It’s not £6 a week, it’s nearer £3 a week. Are you sure you don’t mean “from £6 a month” which is probably what a b&w tv license costs (£50 odd a year)

No, it definitely says £6 a week. £6 a month doesn't cover half the cost of a licence.

Not sure what a 'payment card' is.

Perfect example of their threatening tactics too....

 

[Cobbler]

It’s not £6 a week, it’s nearer £3 a week. Are you sure you don’t mean “from £6 a month” which is probably what a b&w tv license costs (£50 odd a year)

If you look, the cost is spread over 6 months, not 12 for the first licence.

 

[daleyd]

No, it definitely says £6 a week. £6 a month doesn't cover half the cost of a licence.

Not sure what a 'payment card' is.

Perfect example of their threatening tactics too....

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I’ve no idea what that is but when I pay mine it’s not £6 a week, and no figure I can see for the yearly cost of a license comes close to £6 a week.

£159 a year works out at about £3 per week according to my maths, though I think they do something weird with the direct debit.

 

[Morrisman]

I’ve no idea what that is but when I pay mine it’s not £6 a week, and no figure I can see for the yearly cost of a license comes close to £6 a week.

£159 a year works out at about £3 per week according to my maths, though I think they do something weird with the direct debit.

Exactly my point. Are BBC doing some ridiculous interest rate, like a scumbag 'pay day loans' doorstep company?

 

[ajlelectronics]

Did you also send one to the CAA telling them you don't need a pilots license?
And the NRA stating you don't need a gun licence?

I don't feel the need to tell every/any organisation what I don't need.

I thought it was impossible to prove a negative?

 

[daleyd]

Exactly my point. Are BBC doing some ridiculous interest rate, like a scumbag 'pay day loans' doorstep company?

I don’t think so though as I say I know they do something with the direct debit where the first payments are more, then you pay less thereafter. I haven’t looked into it but at the end of the day it’s £159/year. How it’s split up I don’t know,

 

[Cobbler]

Exactly my point. Are BBC doing some ridiculous interest rate, like a scumbag 'pay day loans' doorstep company?

If you look, the cost is spread over 6 months, not 12 for the first licence.

No, see my post above £6 a week over 6 months is equal to £3 over 12 months

 

[Nomad]

I thought it was impossible to prove a negative?

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence"


"Did the Coelacanth die out with the dinosaurs?" got a definite "Yes" from the experts for more than a century until a freshly killed example turned up in an Italian fishing net

 

[colnerov]

When they first introduced the monthly option you had to pay the whole in six months then the next six months at the lesser rate. Because you paid half in arrears and half in advance. From then on it was the lesser amount. I pay by direct debit, which is £13.25 and ongoing.

 

[lchris21]

...think the last time I filled anything in about the licence a good few years ago, I advised them I was a middle aged white heterosexual male who was immune from green washing so finding anything of interest to watch was impossible. We don't watch any live or even catch-up MSM in my house. Anything that turns up now goes into recycling along with charity bags and gutter cleaning services flyers!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

No, it definitely says £6 a week. £6 a month doesn't cover half the cost of a licence.

Not sure what a 'payment card' is.

Perfect example of their threatening tactics too....

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This made me laugh.....https://www.hiraethog.cymru/jane-jeffers-writes/

 

[Dev]

During 2020 there were 55,061 prosecutions and 52,477 convictions in England and Wales for TV Licence evasion. Of the 52,477 convicted, 39,742 were women (76%).

Surprised there were that many.

 

[Morrisman]

Surprised there were that many.

I sure hope they were all actually 'guilty' and not simply prosecuted because they owned a TV and thus some militant investigator steamrolled the case through.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Its wrong that you should have to prove that you dont watch somthing, try watching netflix or prime, sky without a subscription. if everyone had to pay to watch BBC they would have very few customers.
especially after the woke Doctor Who at the weekend, asking an Alien what its pronouns were.

I beg your pardon? Guess it isnt worth watching on iplayer then

 

[cheb]

Yes, so people saying they put heavy items in prepaid envelopes just to annoy the sender annoy us posties way more.

So that's a win either way. Good to know.

 

[Matrixx]

I beg your pardon? Guess it isnt worth watching on iplayer then

Iplayer you have to register , but not all the terestrial programs.