TV Licence

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

Arrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Until 50% of the population is none white, at present I think the figure is around 10%, then stupid, patronising initiatives like this, only fuel ill feeling.

I hate with a vengence positive discrimination, and now we have the knowledge that we are helping to fund it at the B.B.C.

I agree with you on this one mate. Its the racist Police recuiting all over again.

[garinda]

The best person, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, should always get the job.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

The best person, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, should always get the job.

Exactly. At the moment if you are a straight, white, English male you have no chance of a job. I had to wear one of those ninja suits that just show your eyes ( are they called hijab?) at my last interview.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

I had to wear one of those ninja suits that just show your eyes ( are they called hijab?) at my last interview.

...and you still get the trolley dolly job with B.A.?

Ridiculous.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

Ridiculous.

What is, the thought of me in a ninja suit?

[claytonender]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

if we didn,nt have the bbc we would have cr** tv on every channel.where else would we get educational programmes not influenced by commercial companies and can be held accountable to the licence payer,you dont get that with sky or any other commercial channel they just find new ways to rip you off and put more crap on....

Well said. I have some sky programmes, but really resent how they package their mixes. We only watch about 4 programmes, on a regular basis on Sky, but these all fall into seperate mixes, so have to pay £19.00 fro the 'privilege'. I think the quality on most Sky programmes is rubbish, so many repeats. When the BBC HD freesat is launched I will definitely be kicking Sky into touch.

Their customer service department is terrible, you can be on hold for 20 minutes then speak to someone whose grasp of the English Language leaves a lot to be desired. Just grateful, when I have rung them that I have found a geographic number (which doesn't cost me anything to ring) for them on Saynoto0870, rather than pay the inflataed price of calls to their 0870 number (dread to think how much that would cost). Is really annoys me that you can upgrade your package online, but need to speak to a customer advisor to downgrade.

[sarah]

The tv license is for the signal received in order to view the picture, so regardless of whether you are just watching ITV, Ch4, or Sky or just foreign programmes, it makes no difference, you are still receiving a signal. It is the Goverment that set the license fee, NOT the BBC.

It's really quite simple, if you don't like it & don't want to pay, switch the tv off & get rid, nobody forces you to watch it.

I suspect that if we didn't have a tv license fee, then the goverment would get us in some other way, maybe we wouldn't have the NHS?

Incidently, the lads & lasses in the 2 call centres (Bristol & Darwen) that answer your calls, do exactly just that - they answer calls, they have no say over what letters go out, or any control over Enquiry Officers, or methods of payment.

[MikeSz]

I read in the news not too long ago that the TV license is to be phased out by 2017 and replaced with a more general 'entertainment' license that would cover computers and mobile devices.

[panther]

The cost of a colour television licence is to rise next month to £139.50, and £47 for a licence for a black and white TV....up £4!!!
Iv just renewed mine at the end of feb, so i dont have to pay that till next year.

Wonder how many havent paid for one?

[shakermaker]

Originally Posted by panther

The cost of a colour television licence is to rise next month to £139.50, and £47 for a licence for a black and white TV....up £4!!!
Iv just renewed mine at the end of feb, so i dont have to pay that till next year.

Wonder how many havent paid for one?

Think I'll get a black & white telly when I go to Uni!
Prefer black & white films anyway and saving 92 quid sounds like a perk
Mind you that's if I can get a black and whit telly that is ready for digital switchover.

[Benipete]

Given the choice of paying for BBC or just having free view I would plump for the free view.
Years ago they argued that there was not enough revenue from adv.to pay for it.Then there were 2 channels using adv. now there are scores of them.Not to mention the BBC advertise on European channels.
Yet another jobs for the boys regime.

[bullseyebarb]

If, as stated by jambutty, the BBC's programming is so great, it should prosper mightily in the open marketplace without the forced contributions of the long suffering British taxpayers.

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Benipete

Given the choice of paying for BBC or just having free view I would plump for the free view.
Years ago they argued that there was not enough revenue from adv.to pay for it.Then there were 2 channels using adv. now there are scores of them.Not to mention the BBC advertise on European channels.
Yet another jobs for the boys regime.

But BBC is a shareholder in freeview - in otherwords part of your licence fee goes towards freeview

The Organisation

Freeview is managed by DTV Services Ltd, a company owned and run by its five shareholders - BBC, BSkyB Channel 4, ITV and National Grid Wireless. Launched in October 2002, the Freeview service provides free-to-air digital TV channels, radio stations and interactive services through an aerial.

[blazey]

You can watch BBC channels online for free hours after its been aired on television and you don't have to pay for a tv licence apparently if the programme is shown after its been aired on telly.

[steeljack]

Whenever I click on a news video clip from the BBC website, the news story is allways preceeded by an advertisment , usually from big oil or an international finance company , I don't know if UK users of the site have this or if it's just reserved for overseas ISPs