How to avoid TV Licence fee

jackthenipper

underlay_guru wrote: »

...plus, for your £26 or so a month, Sky is still CHOCKED to the hilt with ADVERTS, 'SPONSORED BY...' and 'IN ASSOCIATION WITH...' messages.

How do they get away with that?

Thats probably why you get it for such a low price from sky as all advertising is revenue for Sky!

mr_fishbulb

Only gripe I have with BBC license fee is that I have to pay for stuff on their back-catalog. E.g. If I want to watch back-episodes of Alan Partridge, I have to buy the BBC DVD, even though the program was produced with license fee money in the first place - I'm essentially paying for it twice!

Now if they could get their entire back-catalog on iPlayer........

isofa

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

Only gripe I have with BBC license fee is that I have to pay for stuff on their back-catalog. E.g. If I want to watch back-episodes of Alan Partridge, I have to buy the BBC DVD, even though the program was produced with license fee money in the first place - I'm essentially paying for it twice!

Now if they could get their entire back-catalog on iPlayer........

I'm sure they will be under great pressure, Channel 4 is going to have its entire back catalogue available to view on-line soon, except the news and US sitcoms/drama - which is excellent. (Story here.)

You think buying DVDs is bad, I tried to get hold of a copy of a documentary which was never marketed on DVD (but produced about 5 years ago), they wanted £140 for either a DVD or video copy run off the master, of one 1 hour episode "to cover costs" - it was educational and for a research project! Madness!

Still you can't beat a bit of Partridge

scotsbob

Maybe the BBC should charge for it's adverts. Every chat show on radio and TV is full of people promoting films, books, tv progs, concerts etc etc. If they had that amount of time on a commercial channel it would cost them. Radio ! is just adverts for the record companies. Why they get all that airtime free.
Notice how evryone on the Apprentice had the same make and model of phone, luggage etc. Do the BBC not get product placement money for those free adverts?
Scrap the licence fee and charge for all the adverts.

mightymole

treason is a illegal act against the head of the royal family ie The Queen

so us a licence payer cannot be liable for treason by paying for the licence fee because we are breaking the law if we don't

Citizen_Jones_2

I guess it's like the age old saying...if it's too good to be true etc

Money_Grabber13579

The only way to avoid paying a license fee is to watch everything afterwards on iPlayer, and then get rid of the TV. The TV license is only required for watching live TV, so that's a way of avoiding it!

alanrowell

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

The only way to avoid paying a license fee is to watch everything afterwards on iPlayer, and then get rid of the TV. The TV license is only required for watching live TV, so that's a way of avoiding it!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/apr/23/tv-licence-iplayer-4od

You have to have a licenCe to watch live streaming TV as it's classed as "being broadcast" but if you want to watch previously broadcast stuff you don't.

Of course it doesn't explain the situation where you watch a previously broadcast program that is currently being broadcast as a repeat

Marty_J

alanrowell wrote: »

Of course it doesn't explain the situation where you watch a previously broadcast program that is currently being broadcast as a repeat

That would be a live broadcast.

jackthenipper

The fact remains unless you do not own a tv or have a tv or watch tv then you will need to pay a tv licence fee.