TV license needed for live TV, but why?

HWW

Because the BBC are a bunch of hypocrites' - who only care about raking the money in & keeping their Gravy train, on the rails. Been getting away with this for decades.
Simple, really.

worried_jim

wild666 wrote: »

In the 60's and early 70's the hourly adverts rate was eight minutes so a TV program was 26 minutes for a 30 minutes episode and 52 minutes for a one hour episode. Now it's a maximum of 42 minutes with the rest filled with adverts that's a third of any hour taken up by adverts. The biggest gap between adverts is a football match then they put in as many adverts as they can on ITV, CH4 & CH5.

This why I record any program I want to watch, my Youview box has a jump forward 1 min button so soon as a show starts I give it two pushes to miss the "coming up", why are they spoiling everything with this rubbish, and soon as the adverts start another prompt 4-5 pushes and we are back into the action. Every hour of television only costs me 40 minutes of my life and I haven't seen an advert in ten years.

oldagetraveller

worried_jim wrote: »

This why I record any program I want to watch, my Youview box has a jump forward 1 min button so soon as a show starts I give it two pushes to miss the "coming up", why are they spoiling everything with this rubbish, and soon as the adverts start another prompt 4-5 pushes and we are back into the action. Every hour of television only costs me 40 minutes of my life and I haven't seen an advert in ten years.

I have a Humax p.v.r. with exactly the same function. Great isn't it?
It's typically 4 minutes/interuption of adverts, what's coming up etc., 4 presses usually is spot on.

poppasmurf_bewdley

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I have a Humax p.v.r. with exactly the same function. Great isn't it?
It's typically 4 minutes/interuption of adverts, what's coming up etc., 4 presses usually is spot on.

I'm another who thinks the 1 minute buttons on the YouView Humax machines are great, but don't forget the 15 second rewind button opposite as well. Many breaks on ITV3 are 3 and a half or 4 and a half minutes, so 3 or 4 presses forward and 2 back brings you slap bang to the end of the break.

A lesson Sky should learn.

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poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

A lesson Sky should learn.

Why would Sky actively encourage you to be able to easily skip advertisements? Sky have considerable ad revenue to consider themselves, Humax decoders have no such considerations..

poppasmurf_bewdley

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Why would Sky actively encourage you to be able to easily skip advertisements? Sky have considerable ad revenue to consider themselves, Humax decoders have no such considerations..

I would think that 75% of Sky viewers wouldn't have Sky if they couldn't zip through advertisements. Whatever amount advertisers pay to Sky is nowhere near what Subscribers pay to Sky.

The number of channels that Sky sell advertising for is a minority of the channels on the Sky Guide. And ITV alone sells more advertising on its main channel alone than Sky does for all the channels it is responsible for.

I felt long before I left Sky just over two years ago that Sky deferred far too much to advertisers, guide placeholders, etc, at the cost of ignoring its main paying subscribers.

Why else can you not remove an unwanted channel or re-arrange channels in the main Sky Guide as you want them?