What your TV licence money goes on..

[MIGNAL]

:shock: Hostile reposte? :shock:
Perhaps your being a bit too sensitive. I take your point on not having to buy certain products or shop at certain stores but I suspect that in the real world it would be a practical nightmare. I'm pretty sure that all the supermarkets have advertised on TV. I know that the Laptop that I'm typing on has been advertised and my service/telephone provider certainly has. You would also have to watch an awful lot of TV to find out which products were being advertised and of course they might be advertised on certain channels whilst not on others. Impossible to simultaneously watch them all. Then they drop the advertisement for a product only to advertise a new or a different one. Then there is the new product that starts getting promoted. You would need a huge database. It would consume your whole life! Opting out is very nice in theory but impossible to do on a practical level.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. State TV or Commercial TV. It all costs and we all pay. No option.

 

[Eric The Viking]

To clear up a point of detail: It's a broadcast receiving licence - you only need one if you use your TV to receive off-air TV programmes. If you only ever watch DVDs, even if you send them round the house as UHF signals, you don't need a licence. Neither do you need to pay for an aerial as such, even if it's connected into the back of a TV.

You only need to pay if you're using the aerial or TV to receive programmes as they are transmitted (you're not paying to watch them, at the same time either!). Recording them to watch later thus needs a licence - it's the getting-them-from-a-transmitter bit that the licence is for.

It's nothing to do with what equipment you own, although the BBC and the licensing organization would dearly like it to be otherwise, as the present law makes their life difficult. There are more than a few cases where prosecutions were thrown out of court because there was no evidence of reception taking place, but if you were found to have a hard disk full of programmes, you might have a hard time proving you didn't receive them at some point.

Internet reception is a grey area. It's the BBC's settled view that doing this as live needs a licence, but AFAIK this has yet to be tested in court. There was an update to the Wireless Telegraphy Act recently, and it may now be explicit, but I'm not sure. That said, users of the old Rediffusion system, and after that "cable TV" systems such as Virgin have always had to have a licence too, although they don't technically receive off-air. I don't know about Virgin, but the old Rediffusion system had a direct feed from the major broadcasters (thus no actual transmitter involved so it wasn't actually wireless!). So, as there is precedent for cable users needing a licence, I can see it being argued that Internet users must also have one. I think the law was changed to make this explicit, but I can't be bothered to go look it up this morning!

I used to be a big defender of the licence fee, as it was several times cheaper per hour for the BBC than ITV. These days I'm not sure. It's true though that you pay for ITV even if you have no TV. At least you can choose to pay for the BBC.

E.

PS: had several goes at the above, as it is a confusing area of law. We had to know it back in the day, as people used to ask, and receiving TV without a licence was a sack-able offence in the BBC (allegedly), along with libelling the DG's wife, as Kenny Everett discovered!

 

[bugbear]

This is an interesting website

http://tv-licensing.blogspot.co.uk/2012 ... r-van.html

It's an obsessed person who thinks he's ever so important. "Anouncing" stuff etc.

BugBear

What ARE you on about?

To be even clearer, I think it's the blog of a narrow minded obsessed nutter, without authority or audience.

They issued a "challenge" to the BBC. When the challenge was not (in their terms) accepted, they say that the BBC failed the challenge. I think they were simply, rightly ignored.

BugBear

 

[renderer01]

Lol I have enjoyed this thread, the im too sensitive thingy made me laugh my wife went to work laughing, was so hilarious thanks for that Mignal.
Have a good day,
Regards.

Rend.

 

[John Brown]

"It's true though that you pay for ITV even if you have no TV."

Good point.

 

[dedee]

Roger if you do ever buy a place over here you can wack up a satelite dish and with a freeview box watch the beeb for free
Still have to pay taxes a proportion of which goes to the largest of the tvs companies though

Cheers

Andy

 

[Benchwayze]

QI? Hmmmmm.

Well yes it is a fairly amusing programme, but I do tire of seeing the same clique of 'faces', that have cornered the market, in BBC 'humour'.

And they all do the rounds of similar format programmes.

I was also surprised to see Richard Osman appear on QI last week.
No, I wasn't surprised...
Well yes I was..
Hang on, I wasn't, because there's an Alexander Armstrong, connection, through a line from NTN-o-CN' and HIGNFY. So maybe I wasn't surprised..

Hang on, I think I'm in the wrong thread. Argument is being covered elsewhere. Isn't it? :mrgreen:

Oh Cripes, I must be bored. I'm going to the workshop.

Merry Christmas folks. :ho2 :ho2 :ho2

 

[bugbear]

QI? Hmmmmm.

Well yes it is a fairly amusing programme, but I do tire of seeing the same clique of 'faces', that have cornered the market, in BBC 'humour'.

You must really hate ISIHAC!!

BugBear

 

[Benchwayze]

I dunno BB. I am still trying to work out (Or maybe I can get a clue from Google'! ) what 'ISIHAC' means! Maybe it's one of those I saw in Radio Times, and dismissed as just another funny-face parade! But if Sandy Toksvig is ever on there, I certainly wouldn't bother anyhow. Reg Brown might sway me though. :mrgreen:

Yes I have realised what it means. Actually, yes I do laugh at that programme, sometimes... .

8)

 

[MMUK]

There's only two BBC produced programmes I ever watch - Top Gear and HIGNFY. In fact they are the only TV programmes I watch full stop. I just find them on YouTube and watch them when I want.

 

[joethedrummer]

Hi just watched KFZIBGGFNMOGFRKLOODFJSD<HKLHO:IYI(>KGCDSSDF on "catch up" TV,,,,,
Anyone else see it ?

 

[bugbear]

Hi just watched KFZIBGGFNMOGFRKLOODFJSD<HKLHO:IYI(>KGCDSSDF on "catch up" TV,,,,,
Anyone else see it ?

Yeah. it was ace, but not as good as the first series.

BugBear

 

[Benchwayze]

Hey Joe,

You finished building that shed yet? :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you really are a drummer you'll get it!

Happy Christmas :ho2

 

[joethedrummer]

Hi just watched KFZIBGGFNMOGFRKLOODFJSD<HKLHO:IYI(>KGCDSSDF on "catch up" TV,,,,,
Anyone else see it ?

Yeah. it was ace, but not as good as the first series.

BugBear

 

[joethedrummer]

Hi just watched KFZIBGGFNMOGFRKLOODFJSD<HKLHO:IYI(>KGCDSSDF on "catch up" TV,,,,,
Anyone else see it ?

Yeah. it was ace, but not as good as the first series.

BugBear

Hi BB It"s JTD here,
Hope you have a FGC and a FGNY and wish you ATYWWYF2014,,,

 

[Benchwayze]

Okay! Chaps... IFGU! :lol: :lol:

 

[joethedrummer]

Okay! Chaps... IFGU! :lol: :lol:

Hello John,,,,,Don"t GU it"s only just started,,,,,,
drummers and sheds ????????????????? is it Hendrix /
,,,joe,,,

 

[Benchwayze]

When I used to 'gig', a bad drummer was always accused of 'building a shed', rather than drumming.
'Tis a standing joke/tease.

Like how do you get a guitarist to shut up? 'Show him a sheet of music.'! :roll: :mrgreen:

 

[joethedrummer]

When I used to 'gig', a bad drummer was always accused of 'building a shed', rather than drumming.
'Tis a standing joke/tease.

Like how do you get a guitarist to shut up? 'Show him a sheet of music.'! :roll: :mrgreen:

It is a musicians (loose use of the word) thing,,,,, how did we get from TV licence to taking the mickey out of the rhythm section ?
Bet you"re in the front line !!!!!!!

 

[KevM]

[,,,, how did we get from TV licence to taking the mickey out of the rhythm section ?
Bet you"re in the front line !!!!!!!

To be honest I'm a little surprised that any thread, on any forum, can go 7 pages without taking the mickey out of the rhythm section... :wink:

How do you tell if the stage is level? The drummer's drooling out of both sides of his mouth.