TV License under investigation letter - advice needed

onomatopoeia99

If you post on the TV sub-forum, someone will be able to explain the exact legal situation.

My understanding is a licence is only needed for streaming of BBC content, not for other streaming, so streaming Sky news wouldn't require a licence. It would if you watched or recorded a broadcast over satellite, but not a stream. My understanding only though, not legal advice.

JJ_Egan

My understanding is any source counts not just BBC .

glentoran99

Its only streams from BBC iplayer that counts

JJ_Egan

From TV Licensing .

Not the wordy ANY .


Live TV means any programme you watch or record as it’s being shown on TV or live on any online TV service. It’s not just live events like sport, news and music. It covers all programmes on any channel, including soaps, series, documentaries and even movies.
If you’re watching live TV, you need to be covered by a TV Licence:

• if you’re watching on TV or on an online TV service
• for all channels, not just the BBC
• if you record a programme and watch it later
• if you watch a programme on a delay
• to watch or record repeats
• to watch or record programmes on +1, +2 and +24 channels
• to watch live programmes on Red Button services
• even if you already pay for cable, satellite or other TV services

GingerBob_3

Ignore the letter and it they turn up on the doorstep order them off your premises and issue them with a WOIRA. Don't engage them in conversation.

glentoran99

JJ_Egan wrote: »

From TV Licensing .

Not the wordy ANY .


Live TV means any programme you watch or record as it’s being shown on TV or live on any online TV service. It’s not just live events like sport, news and music. It covers all programmes on any channel, including soaps, series, documentaries and even movies.
If you’re watching live TV, you need to be covered by a TV Licence:

• if you’re watching on TV or on an online TV service
• for all channels, not just the BBC
• if you record a programme and watch it later
• if you watch a programme on a delay
• to watch or record repeats
• to watch or record programmes on +1, +2 and +24 channels
• to watch live programmes on Red Button services
• even if you already pay for cable, satellite or other TV services

ah forgot the live part, it sonly catchup were you don't need a licence other than BBC.

Cornucopia

Or to put it more simply, you need a Licence to watch linear TV channels via Terrestrial, Satellite or Cable TV, or their live internet streamed equivalent, or BBC iPlayer.

Anything else, no Licence required.

So, the OP's viewing of Sky News live online does require a Licence.

TVL do not have any way to trace such access, and even if they did, it would not give them sufficient evidence with which to prosecute.

Most TVL prosecutions are based on confession "evidence". There's a simple answer to that: as soon as TVL staff issue the caution, you have the right to require them to stop questioning and leave the premises immediately. (It's PACE Code C 3.22). The law requires that TVL state this possibility, but they don't. It's one of the ways in which they act unlawfully.