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I know this sounds a really silly question but where do you buy your TV License from?

My mum was informed at the post office the other day that she can no longer pay it there, it now has to be paid at a paypoint, but where in Accrington are these? She is worrying as hers runs out at the end of the month and dosen't want to be without one.

I find it strange that there has been no information broadcast on tv regarding this. We have always paid ours by direct debit so it dosen't affect us.

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You can use Paypoint at the newsagents on Broadway or at Spar on Burnley Rd .There are no doubt loads more of 'em but those are the 2 I know of. I pay mine by dd ;it's easier !

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I'm the same - have paid it on direct debit for as long as I can remember. I wouldn't know where to start about buying one from anywhere else.

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We're on monthly direct debit too since the post office stopped doing them.I think the newsagent at the end of Charter Street,opposite Wolstenholme Funeral Service,is a paypoint you can pay tv licenses at.

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It is a pain, not being able to pay at the Post Office anymore.

I renewed mine last week over the phone, with a debit card, and it was quite straight forward...and you speak to a real person.:D

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In Darwen :)

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Is it?

I've never really had too much time for foreigners.:D

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I think so. I believe the TV Licencing call centre is in India Mill, on Bolton Road in Darwen.

Foreigners? Darreners are a rare breed and that's for sure. ;)

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You could always do it for her on-line HERE
You can find your nearest paypoint HERE

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I Pay mine At the Coop in oswaldtwistle at the fag counter

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Do you guys have to pay just to watch television? Or is this payment for something extra like cable or satelit? Just curious as I've never heard of this before.

Brian

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I pay mine by Direct Debit. Didnt have to before because mum was over 75 and got a free one and before she was 75 i used to pay it at the post office.

LYY this pays for the BBC - TVL - Welcome to TV Licensing
that will tell you all about it!

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Okay, so you guys can't just plug in a tv with some rabbit ears and have it come on? Without our DirectV (~$30/month) we'd still have free access to our local stations (~ 7 or 8).

With the DirectV package we get seemingly hundreds of stations (mostly crap). This includes I believe both BBC America and BBC Europe. When I first signed up it seemed like alot to pay. However, the basic package does give us some entertaining stations.

Always soemthing new to learn about our differences I guess.

Brian

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Whats a TV license:confused:

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Not sure if the newsagents on Broadway is a pay point (unless it is the one on the corner just opened) B.P garage near the roundabout is def. a pay point cause I got a tv license there last year, but much easier to do it online.

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Mick, I do hope your joking and just put the wrong smiley????? :confused:


Its what you need if you have any equipment that is capable of receiving a broadcast signal, TV, video, TV card in PC etc. Irrespective of how you get that signal (Freeview, sky, cable etc)

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i get mine from paypoint not like SOME people who dont even bother!!
was gonna do it direct debit but you end up paying more so i just pay if off when i get my 'bill'

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Can you explain this please? I know you have to pay extra when you first sign up to DD in order to get you in credit, but I wasn't aware that it actually cost more. :confused:

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You pay for your licence in instalments of around £33 per month every three months. Because the majority of your licence is paid for on a pay-as-you-go basis, quarterly payments also incur a small premium of £1.25 per quarter, which is included in your payment.

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I pay mine monthly of about £12 IIRC

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I dont watch bbc so why should i get a license ?
if the wife wants to watch her soaps on the bbc she can buy the license

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if we pay for sky etc then why should we pay for a licence?
i mean bbc dont exactly have good programmes do they, its a rip off but if you are blind, The blind concession gives you 50% off the cost of your TV Licence. So a colour licence will cost £67.75 and a black and white licence will cost £22.75.....WOW!!

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Why would anyone who's blind want to buy a colour licence ?

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because you can be registered blind but still have some sight.

IIRC if you have 75% vision or less you can register as blind.

Mick, Its not about what you watch, just owning the equipment that is capable of showing BBC means you need one. As Willow says, if you remove teh tuner from a TV such that it can only be used with say a games console over scart then you don't need a license

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In which case you would be partially sighted, not blind.

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You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV.

If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.:D

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http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Hobb...d_up_mouse.gif

Ooh look, it's Mick doing a wind up.:D

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Do the characters at that infamous Blackpool establishment 'Funny Girls' need a TV licence ?

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I also pay my licence monthly at about £11.50-ish a month, but the initial payment may have been less (about £9 something I think). It says my licence is £135-50, so I don't think I'm paying any more for DD. Perhaps it's if you pay quarterly?

I think it's good value when you consider the stuff you get on the BBC. BBC4 has a quality stuff on there, as do BBC2 and occasionally BBC1. I'd hate to see all TV stations go commercial, it'd be a nightmare. Just look how bad Sky is for adverts! :(
ITV is just a joke! I haven't watched anything on ITV (except the football, which is done very badly) in over 2 years. C4 used to be good, but it's gone downhill very fast.

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Like Panther said,you only pay a little more if you pay quarterly:)

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already mentioned;)
:D

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Hey! Leave me alone! I've just spent the last hour calculating and sorting. I'm frazzled now. ;)

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see:)......:Banane35:

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What gets me about the licence though is that you can only get BBC3 & 4 if you have Sky or cable or if you pay extra for one of those digi boxes. But you would still have to pay the same licence fee if you didn't have one of those extras.

I think the BBC should run adverts like every other station. There is no way that you can convince me that they are simply a public service any more. They wouldn't go bust as they make money from overseas sales, merchandising and even selling programmes to channels like Living, etc.

Bring on adverts and scrap the licence is my opinion.

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From 2009 you won't get any stations in the Granada area without a digital receiver. Let's face it, cost isn't an issue anymore, as you can get a digi-box for about £20 nowadays. OK, so people can't get the extra channels without a STB, but you're going to have to get one sometime.

The thing is, commercial stations just wouldn't produce the kind of programmes the BBC do now. If they saw a profit in it, they'd be making them now too. Just recently I've really enjoyed watching 'How We Built Britain', 'The History of Rock' and 'Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain'. Top quality programmes the likes of which no commercial station is producing.
The basic package on Sky is £15 per month and it is total rubbish. The BBC is just over £11 per month and the BBC are producing its own programmes! How can that not be VFM?

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If you dont pay or hate paying.

Display this in your window.

http://eurogardensupply.com/dvs/tvli...TV_LICENCE.doc

And Sign the Petition.

Abolish the TV Licence - BBCRESISTANCE.COM

:D

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Did anyone have the unfortunate experiance to switch on to the BBC over the weekend? All four channels were at some point broadcasting from this so-called "Glastonbury Festival". This was in fact, no more than an excuse for tens of thousands of dole scrounging drug addicts to cavort around some muddy field in the south-west while listening to something supposedly called music. The BBC, meanwhile, handed over millions of pounds of public money in order to televise this event. Well, none of it was my money. As a law-abiding citizen I have no intention of paying for this nonsense. The sooner they abolish the license the better; in the interim, take my recomendation and don't pay it - you know you'll feel better.

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It is not possible to get Freeview at my house(Wallbanks and others have spent days trying to get a signal at neighbours of mine), we are in such a bad location. There is no cable option so we are stuck with Sky. If you don't want a subscription package its ~£100 which is not that cheap when you add on £130 for a license

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Tealeaf - Wow! So many inaccuracies in one rant! I'm seriously impressed.

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Freesat is a one off payment of £150. No subscription fees.

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I buy my license from a local shop now but before then it was always the Post Office, right back to the days when we had to have a license to listen to the radio.

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Yes the radio needs one too because that's got BBC on it.

Sorry WillowTheWhisp you don’t need a license to listen to a radio.

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just owning the equipment that is capable of showing BBC means you need one.

Not quite right entwisi. You need a TV license if you have equipment that is capable of receiving TV broadcasts from anywhere or by any means.

It is the government that issues the TV license and part of the proceeds go to fund the BBC. Although it is the BBC that is charged with collecting the license fees and keeping track of those without one.

If the BBC didn’t exist or the government stopped funding the BBC and it had to survive as the commercial channels do by showing adverts, we would still have to buy a TV license. So those people agitating for no TV license have no chance of success.

Finally to those people complaining about the TV license fee, be careful what you wish for.

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When you first sign up for a direct debit it costs £25 something for 6 months that means you are paid up for that year. Then it goes down to £11.50 something like that so then you are 6 months in credit.

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i pay mine by d/debit. its so easy .

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Well i've found all the paypoints close to my mums thanks to the link from KSH, so I'll give her the choice of paying it herself at one of them or paying it over the phone for her. Thanks everyone.

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thats more likely because he is broadcasting his radio in a public place which you do need a licence for, hence us not being allowed to play our radio in the office anymore as it is being broadcast to more than a few people. But you definately don't need a licence for a radio at home :)

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Heehee, I'm only 36 years behind the times! Radio licences were phased out in 1971!!! I suppose they can't imagine anyone having a radio and not a TV nowadays. :D

I've been having a google and found this little gem. I seem to remember that if you had a tranny in your caravan you were covered as long as there was no-one else back home listening to the wireless there. IN which case you needed two licences.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1183016667

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It’s almost the same for TV’s.

If you have a portable TV outside the home it is covered by the home license providing that it is not mains powered.

However you can have a mains powered TV outside the home (like in a caravan) and you don’t need a license for it PROVIDING that no one at home is watching the home TV. Don’t ask me how they police that.

You can have a TV in every room in your house with just the one TV license UNLESS a room is rented out to a paying lodger. He would then require his own license. I’m not quite sure how that applies to a son or daughter with a job and paying board though. I think they would be exempt.

Did you know that if you are watching an unlicensed TV in someone else’s home not only can they be fined but you can be fined also even if your own home is licensed?

Did you also know that when you buy a new TV from a bona fide retailer, the retailer is obliged to notify the appropriate authority of the address where the TV is to be installed? For instance, if you buy a TV from Comet they will ask you for your name and address under the guise of registering your TV for the manufacturer’s guarantee. I’m not sure what happens if you take the set with you and refuse to give your name and address.

However on balance I think that the TV license is very good value as the bulk of the money goes to fund the BBC and the BBC does a lot with the money. Radio stations by the dozen and many TV channels free to view.

In days of old with ‘cable’ radio from Uni-Relay and similar businesses you still had to have a “Wireless License”.

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I'd happily pay double the licence fee, so that Jonathon Ross, and Graham Norton, could double their current respective fees of 15 and 18 million pounds...he lied.

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Ok, let's clear a few things up here.......

If you pay for your lic on dd, you only pay more if you pay quarterly. This is classed as a 'pay as you go' scheme. 4 pymts over the year, each pymt giving you 3 months worth of tv, each pymt currently is just over £35, with a £1.25 admin fee built in. If you pay on a dd, either annually, or monthly, you just pay the lic fee, nothing extra. Annually is a 1 off pymt, done with, that's it, untill the following year. Monthly you end up in advance with your pymts. If you set it up roughly in the 1st 3 weeks of a month, your 1st 5 pymts work out at just over £27, then as the 6th mnth onwards pymts drop to just over £11 a mnth, this is when you start to pay towards the following years lic, so you actually end up 6 mnths in advance with your pymts. If setup within the last week of mnth, you would then have 4 pymts of just under £34, then from the 5th pymt onwards, would drop to just over £11. This is because you always have to be given 14 days notice before the 1st pymt taken, & pymts tend to fall the 1st working day of a mnth, so if its setup towards the end of the mnth the pymt can't be taken the start of the following mnth as not enough notice is given, so pymts bunch up. Obviously at any stage, if you are no longer requiring the lic, then any refund due to you would be sent back to you. Exactly the same if you pay annually or quarterly. Refunds are only issued in unused quarters, & refunds are not issued on expired lic.

If you pay by pay point, unless you do a 1 off pymt - either cash or debit card, you DO pay more. If you are on a card scheme (MCP or CEE) you actually pay around £70 more for your lic fee. You pay for the 'priviledge' of being able to spread your pymts further. Pay Point is a completely seperate company to TV Licensing.

Blind licenses - to qualify for a 50% reduction, you need to be registered either blind, or severely sight impaired. You would need to provide a copy of either a blind cetificate, or a letter signed by the opthomologist, before this would be issued. The licence needs to be in the name of the blind person.

2nd homes - If the 2nd home is a permant structure then it requires a 2nd lic. If you have a caravan on a site, your home lic would cover it, as long as there would be no simultaneous use. You would need to inform TVL of this & they can send you a declaration letter which needs to be signed & sent back.

At home 1 lic covers all of you & as many tv's as you like, providing you all live under the roof as a family unit. If there are seperate tennacy agreements, then seperate licenses would be required.

A lic always belongs to an individual, NOT to the property, & is only ever in 1 persons name. If that named person moves from the address, then they can either transfer that lic to a new address, or choose to cancel the lic. Anybody still remaining at the address that had previously been covered by the lic, would no longer be so, & would need to get a lic in their own name.


Hope this clears a few things up for people.

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No, I didn't know that. Crikey! Does that mean I should ask people to produce their TV licence if the TV is on when I call at their house? :D


I didn't know that either. Suppose somebody is actually buying the TV as a gift for someone else though? They ask for the name and address of the purchaser. They don't ask you if the TV is going to be for that address do they?

We have a TV licence because we have a TV but recently someone gave us a smaller set (which my daughter uses) now supposing we hadn't had a TV and therefore hadn't had a licence - should the person who gave us that one have reported the fact to some authority, like when you sell your car?

Life is a lot more complicated than I ever imagined, and I find it confusing enough as it is.

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Does that mean I should ask people to produce their TV licence if the TV is on when I call at their house?

Only if the detector van happens to be near.

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Suppose somebody is actually buying the TV as a gift for someone else though? They ask for the name and address of the purchaser. They don't ask you if the TV is going to be for that address do they?

Isn’t it usual when buying something as a gift for someone and it requires to be registered for a guarantee you give the name of the recipient. I do. Not that I buy many gifts these days.

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now supposing we hadn't had a TV and therefore hadn't had a licence - should the person who gave us that one have reported the fact to some authority, like when you sell your car?

Only when Big Brother has finally arrived. Any year now!

In trying to cover all the angels the Licensing Authority have got themselves (and us) into a morass of legislation.

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i knew about the retailers telling the tv licence about you,
has anyone ever seen a detector van, i havent

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Angels?:confused:

Oooops! I meant to type angles.:o

Back in the corner kneeling on dried peas for an hour again.:mad:

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Aaaw you mean there aren't any angels watching over our TVs? :(

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Yep! Many times over the years but not lately.

It used to be a big Transit sized van with TV Detector van written on the side and a Belini Tosi aerial (before anyone asks it’s a direction finder aerial) on the roof.

I believe that these days it is an unmarked estate type car but it still has an aerial on the roof, although I have been told that they now use an internal aerial so they are not so easy to spot anymore.

In any case as the licensing authority has the address of each licensed premises and therefore have knowledge of unlicensed premises, they only hang around unlicensed premises to try and catch someone out.

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Judging by the quality of most the programmes it must be a fallen angel.

Just to get back on topic. I get my license at my corner PayPoint shop.

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just wondering , if there is a reduction for the blind , do the folks who dont speak English also get a reduction ? ;) personally I can't see many of the foriegn born population bothering to get one , they probably think its just a tax that the British have to pay :eek: :eek:

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The only reduction that is available to 'the folks who dont speak English' is if they are reg blind/severely sighted, aged 75 or over, or are aged 65 & over in warden controlled property of more than 4 dwellings. Exactly the same reductions as anyone who does speak english.

If they don't bother getting a lic, they'll soon find out that it's a requirement when they receive a court summons & a fine.

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I would forefeit t.v. entirely if I was forced to pay any government fee.
I have yet to find cable t.v. worthy of the price. Using the rabbit ears, I get a dozen perfectly good channels.

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I used to pay for my TV licence at the post office, but last year I did it over the phone...this year I guess I will pay online.