I think its about time the TV Licence was scraped. I have sky and most off the time its on there, why should be still have to pay for the TV Licence? Also most people has broadband now, sky, Cable. and we have to pay over 120 a year for the BBC. and what aload off crap is on there. so you add up all the 120 quid from every house hold in the UK. what aload off money the BBC is getting for giving us crap on the BBC, That we got no choice and have to pay. Are we the only Country that has to pay for the TV Licence?
2006-11-29 05:33:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
It's an out-dated stealth tax that should be scrapped. As someone else said,why don't they have adverts to pay for the programmes. Thet already take up loads of time with their own adverts so why not paying ones?!
2006-11-29 05:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I completley agree with you, I havn't watched the BBC for years. They offer a pile of crap for viewing. But untill ppl rise up together and refuse to pay it then it'll just continue. They could also stop the licence by just showing some adverts on there. I think we should have the choice to not have the BBC channels and not pay. It's disgusting it's just so rich ppl can keep getting richer.
2006-11-29 06:10:38 · answer #2 · answered by caseybecker82 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's demanding, yet to boot a legal requirement for shops to provide information of TVs bought to the licensing people. this is kind of like paying for a clean vehicle - it must be registered and so on and in case you do not do it they make you pay various of funds or take it away. the major ingredient they are interested in is even in the experience that your handle has a television licence that covers that variety of television. If the names are different, you ought to nicely be a distinct tenant interior a similar progression, in which case technically you ought to wish your individual licence subsequently the letter. If uncertain, provide the licencing people a decision and ask what they are on about. in the different case, I advise you and your spouse write a joint letter to them stating that you stay mutually at that handle and inquiring for that this training be hung on record. If both easily one of you signal it, it ought to nicely be useable as information, so ascertain you've a reproduction. NB I even do not have any legal historic past, this is only a tenet.
2016-11-27 21:49:40 · answer #3 · answered by marcy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree. I would be happy to pay if the channel was good but it has really gone downhill. The only thing I watch is Planet Earth and I watch that through Sky anyway. My area is the first to have terrestrial television switched when it happens so you have to have digital television regardless... why should I pay twice?
2006-11-29 05:42:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just read your question(or rant to be more precise). The only crap I could see was your spelling. scraped instead of scrapped - most people has instead of have - what aload off crap instead of what a load of crap - what aload off money, what a load of money.
Other European countries pay television licences. I am happy to pay and to watch the BBC. Unlike you I have no desire to watch Sky which appeals to the lowest denominator. Chuck the television buy yourself a good dictionary.
2006-11-29 05:39:28 · answer #5 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Licence Fee is the only thing that guarantees certain local and marginal programming remains available on the BBC.
Could you imagine what it would be like to not have the respite of a channel without advertising?
And you say it has a load of crap on it, but what about the hundreds of channels of complete dross on Sky?
You may like Sky Movies and Sport every day of the week and that is fine, but not everybody does.
While BBC1 is often crap - because it is low brow and populist - without the licence fee, we would not have had programmes such as Blue Planet or Wild Planet (or any of the natural history programmes), Blue Peter, Songs of Praise, Newsnight, The Proms, or even some of the other excellent documentaries and comedies that are now being produced by BBC3 and BBC4.
I don't even like all of these programmes, but they are there because the licence fee allows a little room for experimentation, growth and development in a non-commercial environment.
its because of that I am always happy to pay my licence fee.
2006-11-29 05:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by PSAF 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Here's a suggestion: If everybody stopped paying for Sky and cable services, they would save a lot of money, and top class football would come back to terrestrial channels (with the added advantage that the obscene wages for players would not be available).
2006-11-29 05:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think we are the only country that has to pay for a bloody TV License ; I know you don't have to in Spain. I am glad that I am 14 and don't have to pay for it but I argee with you lot that it should be scraped!
2006-11-29 06:23:20 · answer #8 · answered by Iron Man 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely right.
But once they've introduced a tax (& that's what this is) they seldom abolish it.
Some other countries charge a license within their electricity bills but in Ireland we too have a huge & grossly unfair TV license charge.
It is diabolical but then so are are many things in life.
Write to your MP - say you won't vote for him (her) unless they agree to fight to abolish the TV license - if we all did it, maybe we'd get somewhere!
2006-11-29 05:41:12 · answer #9 · answered by frankobserver 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you 100%
I have sky and the one and only thing i ever watch on BBC1 is Eastenders...
I think its disgusting that we have to pay so much just for one stupid channel that really doesnt ever have anything decent on it anyway.
Scraping the TV licence is well overdue!!
2006-11-29 05:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋