TV licence query

ryanmccauley211

moonrakerz wrote: »

NO! NO! WRONG! WRONG! RUBBISH ! RUBBISH !

Will somebody at least try and read:-

1. The Law.
2. The TVL website
3. One of the 8 million threads on this subject on this site alone

I would love a link to guide me to the "law" that I must read please

victor2

My sister does not have a TV license and does not watch or record TV as it is broadcast. She does have a regular TV and DVD player as she watches DVDs. She presumably could watch iPlayer on her computer as well.
Took her a while to convince the TV licensing people that she didn't need a license several years ago, as she used to have a license and they kept chasing her to buy one.

kaya

the fee is for bbc only, not for any other channels, the information you would require in court is printed plainly on the bbc's own website , see the bbc iplayer site and look at terms and conditions section, i had a virgin engineer here just before christmas who told me that he only watches catch up and never live bbc, when the licence people visit him every quarter he invites them in to his house and shows them the terms and conditions on the bbc's website and tells them he never watches live bbc broadcasts, told me that in 3 years they have not taken him to court, nowhere is it written you need a licence to own a tv set or plug it in and recieve signals, it is only written that you need one to watch live bbc, and in court could they prove that you watch it? i doubt that very much , i think the bbc have used peoples ignorance against them for too many years , i even heard a licencing spokeswoman on bbc a few weeks back speaking on this exact subject, she said, and i quote "Of course you need a licence to watch the bbc, and if you have one it will cover you for all the other channels as well" clever wording , but she didnt say you need a licence to watch any other channel did she , i wish you good luck.

anamenottaken

kaya wrote: »

the fee is for bbc only, not for any other channels, the infoluck.

The FEE is used to fund the BBC but the LICENCE is for all other channels.

The Licence is required to watch (or record) the other channels' output as it is broadcast as well as the BBC's.

facingthefuture

I thought you needed it even if you have a radio

davidlizard

ryanmccauley211 wrote: »

I would love a link to guide me to the "law" that I must read please

The relevant "laws" are the Communications Act 2003 Section 363 which lays down the requirements for needing a television licence, supplemented by the The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004, which defines what is meant by "use" of a television receiver.

This link here to a post on the vents board here is very informative about which bits are relevant and also the interpretation of these various acts:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=38176242&postcount=109

cajef

facingthefuture wrote: »

I thought you needed it even if you have a radio

The need for a licence for a radio was abolished in 1971.

Zinger549

Every one could say they don't watch BBC then. If you watch live TV, you should have a licence, that's how I understand it.

giraffe69

the fee is for bbc only, not for any other channels

Utter rubbish! Please post having made some attempt to check what you say is not complete balderdash.

davidlizard

Whilst the vast majority of the fee goes to the BBC - a small fraction (about £100M/year) goes to commercial television to subsidise their Public Service Broadcasting efforts such as regional news and kids programmes - sadly those of us that never watch BBC still have to pay it.

Its a bit like having to pay Tesco a yearly fee to be allowed to shop at Asda.

It is about time this archaic tax was abolished and with the technology available these days move to a subscription based service. Those that think the BBC is great value can continue to receive it, whilst those who neither want it nor watch it needn't subsidise it. What can be fairer than that?

The BBC charter tells us that the BBC exists to "Educate, Inform and Entertain". Whilst this was valid in the 1970s, these days I and many others get our education, information and entertainment from a large and diverse global set of resources - the BBC is no longer required.