UK people. We have to pay our tv licence.... ?

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travellinggal22

don't pay it make a big deal of it if you get caught they threaten court action for Â£1000 fine but they never take you because it costs them time and more than a grand to do that .if you get a ba****d and they do take it to court local sheriff one then make a big deal out of it go to national local papers urge everyone not to pay and you may make histroy.

Martin14th

try watching American TV, then you would understand why the fee is not so bad.

For every hour of Tv over there I would guess 20 minutes or more is filled with adverts, now thats fine if you like adverts.

For the licence fee we get 4 Tv stations, and loads of radio stations, and while I agree that there are lots of BBC type self adverts creeping in that is no great bad thing.

I do object though to the fact that almost every guest on a BBC programme is there to promote their lastest venture, be it show/book/film etc

Essex Girl

Here in New Zealand the licence was scrapped. But now we get a million ads every five minutes instead. I'd rather have the no-ads-BBC any day....long live the TV Licence!

djcope11

The licence fee is very good value for money. The quality of programming is excellent, just compare with US TV and it should have you begging to pay the fee.

Don't forget that they have to try and cater for everyones taste, so it is inevitable that you will find at least half the output rubbish. The BBC also provides national radio stations to cover everyones tastes plus regional stations.

It will be a sad day and another step into cultural decline if the licence is abolished.

Doug

bob

its pretty shite innit-- the fee only goes to bbc(don't think they have got divvy quiz progs)
another thing that annoys me with it is -- itv etc get there money from advertising.the bbc therefore don't have adverts (the liscence fee pays for it) so it would be quite good to have channels without adverts for your money.But instead of making Â£ from soap, or sommat, adverts they just advertise their own,bbc, products all the time. in short they might aswell just have adverts and axe the fee!

Scar_of_David

It's got a little silly now. I was astounded that they voted to keep the license fee for another 10 years or whatever last year. Since terestrial tv is getting switched off soon you'll end up having to pay for tv to sky or cable or something, as well as a tv license for a service which is getting switched off. Madness!

roo w

i dont think that we should have to pay for a tv licence. i am from australia and have moved to the uk. its almost stupid how you have to pay for a licence to watch your own tv. they dont have it in australia, it was weird when i first moved to the uk and they were telling me they had a tv licence i am like ok u dont drive it or any thing. almost 80% of england has a type of sky, ntl etc etc, so why should u be made have to pay a another fee each yr just so u can use the sky..i think it should be scrapped.

Sierra One

Totally agree ,it's outrageous, all you seem to get for your money is repeats and adverts ( and the adds are supposed to be free )

mescalin57

to the person that thinks it will be abolished in 2010 dream on the TV licence will never be abolished the BBC will just start charging us to watch the DIGITAL CHANNELS. they will never let go of this. FEE. why is it classed as a criminal offence not to have one anyway. the only criminals are BBC. HIGH TIME THEY WERE BROKEN UP nothing more than a MONOPOLY that should have been privatised years ago. a dying institute that won't accept that it's had it day still living in a bygone age.

Dick s

Don't suppose most of you lot think twice about spending 50, 100 quid, on night out on the town, 20 quid on a takeaway.........but you carp about paying around 36p for days entertainment on tv eh? :-)

Penfold

The TV Licence fee pays for the commercial free BBC TV and radio stations. The BBC has to cater for the British public and therefore has to produce a vast variety of programs. There are only a few programs I do watch on the BBC but only the ones I do enjoy (and therefore by definition most of what is broadcast on BBC TV I would not enjoy). I do however listen to the radio a lot and is pretty much switched to the BBC radio station. Given what is provided, the fee is not bad value for money. However, I do agree that night programming on the BBC and commercial TV stations does have a lot to be desired (at which point I merely switch on the radio).

Ema M

I agree - the license fee is a complete rip-off, and because the BBC are guaranteed the money by the government so they don't bother with content. Mind you, none of the other channels aren't much better either. We seem to get quantity, not quality nowadays, and it's not even as though we get certain events guaranteed to be shown by the BBC anymore. Thanks to Tony Blair, you can only listen to the Ashes series on the radio for free nowadays. They shouldn't get any license fee anymore - it's not as though they don't advertise now - they're constantly advertising themselves, and often trying to pass the adverts for their latest sensationalist documentary as news items. So I think they should have to go commercial. Maybe they'd start making decent programmes again if that happened!

qwerty

it's suppose to be for paying for the BBC.

Wikidkid

I think our telly programmes are rubbish. You're right we should only pay half what we pay now.

life is

yep its a head ache and not really worth the money, perhaps tvs should become like some mobiles and pay as you go.
On top of all this if you want sky you have to pay for any decent channels on that to.
Not much anyone can do about it - as its a rule laid down in the UK and a rule to stay

sarch_uk

Long Live the ad free BBC!

What your licence provides
The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests. 94.3% of the UK population used the BBC every month in 2005/2006.

The BBC provides 8 interactive TV channels, 10 radio networks, over 50 local TV and radio services and bbc.co.uk (see BBC channels). In January 2006 we launched BBC jam, a free online learning service for 5 to 16 year olds, linked to key areas of the school curriculum..

BBC World Service is funded by Government grant and not your TV licence. Profits from separate BBC commercial services help to keep the licence fee low.

the_fatmanwalksalone

I'd never even heard of a tv license till I moved to London. At first I thought it was a joke! I think it's ridiculous that they make you pay to watch tv, especially when most of the programs on over there are just rubbish.

You could stop paying it, but the fine is pretty big if you get caught. That being said, we only paid for one license and had 3 or 4 tv's on our house. We never got caught.

WildCat-on-Oxygen

I don't pay it, that is for suckers

rudee

What's a tv license?

tattie_herbert

Don't fret pet!
The licence will be abolished when we go digital in 2010.
It is to be replaced with subscription, just like Sky TV!

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