TV Licence

Should we have the TV Licence?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 19.6%

  • Yes, but we should review what programmes are shown (licence should be cheaper)

    Votes: 6 13.0%

  • No

    Votes: 31 67.4%
  • Total voters
    46
  • Poll closed .
Bonnyboy said:
The sting in the tail for me is that I get billed for a service which I have not asked to be provided, irrespective of programme quality.

I think it stinks. :(
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If you haven’t asked for a TV service to be provided I assume that you do not have a TV set. So if you do not have a TV set you do not need to buy a license.

Do you have a car? If so then you need a Road Fund License to use it on the public highway.

It’s no different.
 
Bonnyboy said:
The BBC put crap on, they just don’t have to work at finding new ways to fund it or rip us off as you say.
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One person’s crap is another’s wonderful programme.

I consider soaps, reality TV, cookery, programmes about buying houses abroad and most quizzes as utter bilge. However I do acknowledge that probably millions cannot live without soaps etc.

But I know where the off button is and being exceptionally clever I also know how to use the remote control to find a programme that does interest me. But then my life is NOT RULED by TV.
 
Retlaw said:
Why should we have to pay for a licence to recieve any broadcast transmissions, in any waveband whether Radio or TV. The goverment has no control over the radio spectrum outside Gt Britain, they are broadcast from every country in the world. Could they stop these transmissions reaching us, jamming would be too expensive, and broadcasters would object, anyway it would interfere with the governments secret listening stations.
Again its rip off Britain, the govenment of any denomination's main objective is to ensure the working man leaves this world as he came into it. NAKED and PENNYLESS.
Retlaw.
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Because it is the law of the land.
 
Just a point to all those commercial channel lovers.

They are financed by the advertising revenue where the adverts are so brutally broken up by programmes.

Where do you think the money comes from to pay for the advertising?

It comes from the sale of the products that WE BUY. It is our money that is breaking up programmes so that we can view an advert that we have paid for. Talk about having your cake and eating it.
 
jambutty said:
Just a point to all those commercial channel lovers.

They are financed by the advertising revenue where the adverts are so brutally broken up by programmes.

Where do you think the money comes from to pay for the advertising?

It comes from the sale of the products that WE BUY. It is our money that is breaking up programmes so that we can view an advert that we have paid for. Talk about having your cake and eating it.
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How else do you propose companies tell us about the products that we want to buy?
 
Cyfr said:
How else do you propose companies tell us about the products that we want to buy?
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I don’t propose anything other than the TV license is exceptional value and I’ve already explained why I think so.

You on the other hand cannot accept that other people can have their own opinions on an issue and when they are different to yours they are wrong and you a right.
 
[email protected] said:
Shopping existed BEFORE commercial tv :(
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Sorry Margaret you are correct, lets go back a few decades to how it was. Can someone explain how I fill this magnifying thingy up with water to make my TV screen bigger, todays hour of TV is starting soon.

Get with it, things change. The TV license/tax whatever you call it is there mainly to fund the BBC. I think it's time for them to sink or swim on there own.
 
£135 is a lot of money all at once but I pay mine monthly to break it up. It only costs me about £12 a month which doesn't seem bad for all the programmes we enjoy.
 
Lilly said:
£135 is a lot of money all at once but I pay mine monthly to break it up. It only costs me about £12 a month which doesn't seem bad for all the programmes we enjoy.
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It does if you are already paying £40 or £50 to Sky to watch it already.

Not that I am, I ditched Sky a while ago.
 
No licence fee equals no funding for the B.B.C.

Simple.

I notice that no defenders of the current system have commented on the fact that we pay for foreign language broadcasts to the rest of the world on the B.B.C,and which they get to listen to for free.
 
garinda said:
No licence fee equals no funding for the B.B.C.

Simple.

I notice that no defenders of the current system have commented on the fact that we pay for foreign language broadcasts to the rest of the world on the B.B.C,and which they get to listen to for free.
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bet those defenders had no idea? i certainly didn't,thanks for the ammo.:D
 
garinda said:
I notice that no defenders of the current system have commented on the fact that we pay for foreign language broadcasts to the rest of the world on the B.B.C,and which they get to listen to for free.
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I think the BBC gets funding or did at one time , from the foriegn office budget for its overseas broadcasts as part of the Govt. propaganda program, much like Voice of America, DW (German radio) , Radio France and Radio Moscow ;)
 
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