TV Licence Should anyone be paying it????

marleyboy

mippy wrote: »

I used to work for the BBC, and my hours ranged from 6.30am to 11.45pm in a changing shift pattern - so we got taxis at either end of the scale. Remember that a lot of production jobs, especially in news, are not 9-5 and taxis are provided to stop people going home alone very late at night or very early in the morning, which can be dangerous or difficult. It's a shame not all similar workplaces can;t do the same, as it shows a level of care to staff. Never got a chauffer-driven car, though

Would love for my company to pay for a taxi home when its late, should they muster this I am sure it would come out of the companies own expenses, and not our customers costs.

To recap; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5853046/BBC-executives-received-1000-in-licence-fee-payers-money-to-cut-taxes-on-pensions.html

I hardly think this is fair on licence fee payers.

geordieracer

positive1 wrote: »

Hi All,

should anyone be forced to by a TV licence because they own a TV?

Yes: if they watch BBC1 right?

But if you dont, then surely you dont need a licence,

Have you ever stopped to think why it is called a TELEVISION LICENCE and not a BBC LICENCE?

nsabournemouth

Lets face it the BBC doesn't have that great choice. You can't watch what you ant when you ant to.

Take Virgin Media. I can watch nearly anything i want from hit shows to things like the National Geographic, History etc etc when i want to.

The BBC produce Eastenders and the other crap you get in the morning and buy the rights to the F1 Grand Prix. What a waste.

Don't see why i should pay the BBC to watch National Geographic etc etc

geordieracer

nsabournemouth wrote: »

Lets face it the BBC doesn't have that great choice. You can't watch what you ant when you ant to.

Take Virgin Media. I can watch nearly anything i want from hit shows to things like the National Geographic, History etc etc when i want to.

The BBC produce Eastenders and the other crap you get in the morning and buy the rights to the F1 Grand Prix. What a waste.

Don't see why i should pay the BBC to watch National Geographic etc etc

but you do pay to watch national geographic. thats why having virgin or sky is not free either.

marleyboy

geordieracer wrote: »

but you do pay to watch national geographic. thats why having virgin or sky is not free either.

I think his point is that regardless of paying Virgin or Sky to watch Nat Geographic, he still would have to pay the BBC for the privilege of watching either Virgin or Sky.

geordieracer

marleyboy wrote: »

I think his point is that regardless of paying Virgin or Sky to watch Nat Geographic, he still would have to pay the BBC for the privilege of watching either Virgin or Sky.

I was being pedantic.

nsabournemouth

geordieracer wrote: »

but you do pay to watch national geographic. thats why having virgin or sky is not free either.

Yeah but it's not the BBC who are broadcasting it.

cajef

elfen wrote: »

Only if there is no possible way for your TV to receive a picture; either digital or terrestrial. If the digital doesn't work, the terrestrial might. Also means it needs to be tested to see if you can't get it,

Where did you come up with that from, who goes around testing sets to make sure they cannot receive any transmissions.:rolleyes:

You can have as many working sets as you want and it does not matter whether they are capable of receiving transmissions or not, providing you don't use them to watch or record live transmissions you do not have to do anything to make them incapable of receiving any signal and you do not need a licence.

mustrum_ridcully

nsabournemouth wrote: »

Lets face it the BBC doesn't have that great choice. You can't watch what you ant when you ant to.

Take Virgin Media. I can watch nearly anything i want from hit shows to things like the National Geographic, History etc etc when i want to.

The BBC produce Eastenders and the other crap you get in the morning and buy the rights to the F1 Grand Prix. What a waste.

Don't see why i should pay the BBC to watch National Geographic etc etc

National Geographic etc run adverts? That money contributes to the broadcast of the channel. So why should I as a consumer pay for you to watch National Geographic etc?

TV funded by adverts is the ultimate stealth tax, paid by every consumer irrespective of whether they have a TV or not.

Volcano

cajef wrote: »

Where did you come up with that from, who goes around testing sets to make sure they cannot receive any transmissions.
You can have as many working sets as you want and it does not matter whether they are capable of receiving transmissions or not, providing you don't use them to watch or record live transmissions you do not have to do anything to make them incapable of receiving any signal and you do not need a licence.

How can you say that? After all:

elfen wrote:

(*is a Film and TV Studies student, and can find a helluva lot more stuff if you want)