No need for TV Licence - threatening letters/visit

Cornucopia

acc wrote: »

As Cornucopia said above, if they call again, write to Tony Hall or Pipa Doubtfire at the BBC to complain, and withdraw TVL's right to access your property.

For the time being, I'm suggesting not using WOIRA (withdrawal of implied right of access).

There may be a better legal strategy coming along (based upon the Human Rights Act), but at the moment, the best overall approach is an official complaint without WOIRA.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

spacey2012 wrote: »

They have plans for the "web" hence the live broadcast trials

Yes, the BBC has to start a good online presence, prior to the charter renewal in 2016, to keep the very existence of the TV Tax and the TV Tax Inspectorate (sales people) in business.

Essentially, they are now playing catch me up in the real world. Other service providers are already providing live feeds of events on the internet, with focused advertising. Youtube has already done this with the Rugby Championships play offs. BT Sport has come on the scene and has essentially given away their TV service free to their broadband customers. Sky are doing the same, with their broadband packages.

Today, most TV stations such as itv has advertised players, where the advertising can be focused to customers, rather than broad based. It also defeats the time shift recorders, by not allowing fast forwarding. Hence, normal broadcast service will start to diminish in the next few years, as internet TV advances, where programmes are downloaded by customers by choice, just as the time shift recorders today.

In this age, TV broadcasting will cease and the licence fee untenable.

silverwhistle

For someone who makes such a song and dance about the TV licence you seem to watch an awful lot of stuff on the little screen.

I haven't got a TV, licence or watch much but having been exposed to other countries' television I'm not sure wishing away the BBC is such a good idea. I really don't want R3 and R4 interrupted by adverts...

Cornucopia

silverwhistle wrote: »

For someone who makes such a song and dance about the TV licence you seem to watch an awful lot of stuff on the little screen.

As long as he is within the law, what does it matter?

I haven't got a TV, licence or watch much but having been exposed to other countries' television I'm not sure wishing away the BBC is such a good idea. I really don't want R3 and R4 interrupted by adverts...

As far as I am concerned, the BBC has deliberately and with malice aforethought set up an unlawful scheme for the enforcement of the TV Licence. A scheme which is harmful to the legally licence free public and brings the law into disrepute.

They should have thought about their duty to the preservation of good standards of Public Service Broadcasting before doing that and causing the creation of a disaffected stakeholder group.

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Buzby wrote: »

But if you have no Freeview tuner anywhere on your premises, you can tell them to go swivel

You can tell them to go swivel, whether you have a Freeview tuner or not.