This is how some of your money is spent.
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BBC TV Licence
- Thread starter Royboy39
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I agree that more care should be taken on spending our fees but am glad of the BBC -if only for the fact that I dont get a sore thumb from pressing the mute button during ads (most of which are horrendous and overloud)
Why not, " it is not the 'done' thing old boy, why soil our hands with 'blood' money when the 'peasants' are stupid enough to pay"
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We get ads now on the BBC, for their own programmes.
On average five minutes per hour of broadcasting.
Yes they do, bleeding hypocrites.
Shame they really have u by the goolies cos without a tv licence u cant own a tv [technically] by law, so u cant even bypass the darn BBC - like they own tv's or something !! Personally i think they are rubbish in standard than ITV/CH4 etc for programmes & innovation in ideas & drama's, only time i watch the beeb is for occasional footy [if on] & eastenders.
Thats when i stop paying for a tv licence. Because i wont be receiving it. I dont get channel 5 because of where i live. I refuse to pay for sky just for the sake of getting bbc1 etc. Freeview boxes dont work here because we are out of line of the signal.
a thread on BBc TV licences.....cue jambutty 
I record most programs on Sky +Margaret, then you just fast forward during the ads, its surprising 1hr. programs only run 45mins on my telly.
I have an ordinary Sky box and dish but dont pay for any (extra)programmes. My Tv has built in freeview. I need the freeview back up because when it rains heavily my Sky reception goes kaput.
I paid for my own dish to be erected when I moved here but was limited as to where I can put it (flats), and the ordinary ariel is communal and gives a very poor signal strength. I tried an arial booster but it didnt improve matters. I used to pay extra for Sky channels at my previous address but I wont do that here because the Sky signal is unreliable.
I could link up to cable but dont want any extra expense - I am content with the channels I get - perhaps miss the Discovery channel a bit -but not worth the extra I would have to pay to get it.
I rarely miss a programme I want to see because I live alone - I gave away my video recorder. So I put up with the ads with the help of the mute.
I truly hope we never lose the BBC. Commercial stations do not produce the variety and quality of programmes that the BBC do.
I have Sky, but only watch the football. I never watch ITV or any of its variants as it is rubbish.
When C4 was regulated in terms of the programmes it produced, it really was a breath of fresh air. Since the late-90s the quality of its programmes has dropped like a stone. I hardly ever watch C4 now.
I feel there are alot of short-sighted people when it comes to this topic.
I have Sky, but only watch the football. I never watch ITV or any of its variants as it is rubbish.
When C4 was regulated in terms of the programmes it produced, it really was a breath of fresh air. Since the late-90s the quality of its programmes has dropped like a stone. I hardly ever watch C4 now.
I feel there are alot of short-sighted people when it comes to this topic.
Sky + is free if you subscibe to certain other channels (don't know details as I have full service) Margart. I think Sky going of when it rains hard applies to every body, I know it does to me as I usully goes of in the middle of a good film or a footy match, especially in the last few weeks, but you just have to grin and get on with it
Your MENSA card is in the mail
Thanks steeljack, good of you, but I've already got one
