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TV licences - exactly what do you need one for?

Queenieviolet · 2009-01-15 22:16:52

Just sat thinking about ways to cut my bills and me and OH got thinking - if we had no TV licence, can we still own a tv as long as it wasn't connected to an arial (eg. to play games consoles)? And if so, would it be legal to watch TV programmes from internet providing it wasn't BBC1? Just a daft question really but it got…

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[Deleted User] Posts: 4,466 Forumite

16 January 2009 at 9:39AM

Inactive wrote: »

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.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me

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