TV licences - exactly what do you need one for?

chaddy7604

CHR15 wrote: »

This must be one of the top 5 topics to start e-violence!

This and the Apple-Windows-Linux fight.

Those who have already contributed will do best to sit back and watch the scrap unfold - this will make the Gaza Strip look like Kindergarden.

the danmanchesters of the forum will be along soon to start the real insults.

Macs rule


Windows is pants


Wanna fight? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Queenieviolet

Lakeuk wrote: »

No - you're paying for all of the BBC's TV / Radio channels both national and regional as well as other bbc non-commercial enterprises like bbc.co.uk and dab rollout and iplayer

O.K - I was generalising, I kinda knew that.

CHR15

chaddy7604 wrote: »

Macs rule

Windows is pants

gjchester

danmanchester wrote: »

WRONG! Totally wrong. Another example of tv licensing's ambiguous brainwashing! Owning a TV does NOT require a TV Licence!
Watching LIVE TV does.

Proving you have not been watching live TV if the equipment is capable of recieving it though is another matter.

I suspect it would be down to you to prove it, not them to prove you were watching TV. Friends who do not have a TV at all have a battle every year as TVLicencing don't believe them (it usually involves them visiting the house and checking all the rooms). I can't imaging they'll happily accept your say so if you have a TV but say you don't watch live TV given the hassle the give people who don't even own a box..

LumpyCustard_2

gjchester wrote: »

Proving you have not been watching live TV if the equipment is capable of recieving it though is another matter.

I suspect it would be down to you to prove it, not them to prove you were watching TV.

Nope, it's up to them to prove it. They do however have quite a reputation for persistence in chasing those whom they assume are flouting the licensing regulations, though.

Marty_J

gjchester wrote: »

Proving you have not been watching live TV if the equipment is capable of recieving it though is another matter.

I suspect it would be down to you to prove it, not them to prove you were watching TV. Friends who do not have a TV at all have a battle every year as TVLicencing don't believe them (it usually involves them visiting the house and checking all the rooms). I can't imaging they'll happily accept your say so if you have a TV but say you don't watch live TV given the hassle the give people who don't even own a box..

They have to prove you're doing something illegal; it's not up to your to prove you aren't.

Your friends don't have to answer the door when they call, much less show them around the house. Personally, I'd tell them to get lost.

gjchester

Marty_J wrote: »

Your friends don't have to answer the door when they call, much less show them around the house. Personally, I'd tell them to get lost.

They do it as from experience they know it makes them stop for a year, as has been mentioned they are persistant. My friends have had the licencing people visit at all sort of odd hours to try and catch them watching the TV they don't have, they figure it's easier to let them look around then not bother them again for another year.

Marty_J

gjchester wrote: »

They do it as from experience they know it makes them stop for a year, as has been mentioned they are persistant. My friends have had the licencing people visit at all sort of odd hours to try and catch them watching the TV they don't have, they figure it's easier to let them look around then not bother them again for another year.

Well in that case, I'd report them to the police for harassment.

Inactive

They need your money to fund their new TV Channel;

BBC TV Persia.

See here;
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/01/bbc_persian_channel_to_launch_midmonth.html

I kid you not, the mind boggles at how they waste our licence fee's.

ChuckCash

Intresting link from bbc news website (September 2008)...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7603258.stm

The blurb includes criticism by one MP of the intimidation tactics used, including the requirement for people who do not own televisions to prove their non-use.

Nice article from the beeb, and surely it will make the world a better place for both licence payers and license non-payers alike :rolleyes: