TV Licence article Discussion

TEDDYRUKSPIN

I believe the van which says do you have a tv licence will be the big giveaway. LOL. The guys are not allowed to harrass the house but are allowed to knock. However, they can actually check if you are actually watching any tv programs as your tv emmits a special signal wave which is picked up by their equipment. All I can say is that you must have an aerial which is plugged into the tv.

Or a tv very need to the aerial which is picking up a very weak tv signal. It can happen!

intranix

TEDDYRUKSPIN wrote: »

However, they can actually check if you are actually watching any tv programs as your tv emmits a special signal wave which is picked up by their equipment. All I can say is that you must have an aerial which is plugged into the tv.

Or a tv very need to the aerial which is picking up a very weak tv signal. It can happen!

lol, unproven twaddle.

intranix

Katykat wrote: »

When you buy a TV, you have to give your address to the retailer, & they have to inform the licensing dept, its the law. I've not heard of anyone buying a TV & saying that they are not going to watch it, unless of course, its just for DVD's.

The retailer just asks for a name/address, they dont check it is genuine, though

TEDDYRUKSPIN

Not being funny I have seen it. Don't you believe the advertisements? The above must have seen them when he/she plug the tv in with an aerial to see the latest coronation st or emmerdale farm. LOL.

mcafee1230

The latest BBC scandal - which has seen £100,000 spent ferrying two executives by limousine a few miles to work and back over a year - has once again called into question the licence fee arrangement with that corporation. The BBC has the largest budget of any UK broadcaster with a 2007 operating expenditure of £4.3 billion. This compares to £3.8 billion for British Sky Broadcasting, £1.9 billion for ITV and £214 million for GCap Media (the largest commercial radio broadcaster).
The BBC gets its funding from licence fees extracted from each British household that has a television. This amounts to £3.1 billion, with the rest being made up of commercial international services. The BBC receives a further £239.1 million in grants from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for its international service.
The BBC currently operates on a £2 billion deficit, and has recently sacked 7,200 staff.
Despite this, a Freedom of Information request has shown that current director general Mark Thompson and his deputy Mark Byford are ferried to work in luxury limousines at huge cost to the corporation.
Mr Thompson, who earns £816,000 a year, takes the train to London from his home in an exclusive area of Oxford, before being collected from the station by his driver.
Mr Byford, whose salary is more than £510,000, travels from his home in Winchester into Waterloo, where he is also met by a driver. Both executives are then ferried just a few miles to Television Centre, prompting critics to question why they could not take public transport, or even a black cab.
A taxi would cost £40, return bus journey would cost £2, and a tube ticket would cost less than £5 each day.
A spokesman for the Taxpayers Alliance said: “It is unfair that BBC bosses are cruising around in luxury at the expense of licence fee payers.”
Other details released under the Freedom of Information Act show the broadcaster spent £15 million on flights and £24.5 million on hotels and conferences in the past year.
The blatant bias shown by the BBC, particularly against the British National Party, has caused an increasing number of people to refuse to pay their licence. This situation was underlined in 2001 when then BBC director-general Greg Dyke described his own organisation as “hideously white” during a call for non-whites personnel to replace whites.
Despite making several smear programmes on the BNP (and another one is due any day now, trying to link the BNP to Apartheid), the BBC has consistently refused to allow party leader Nick Griffin onto any of the current affairs shows, preferring instead to slander the BNP without allowing a right of reply.
This state of affairs might change after June 4, however. BNP Euro South West candidate Jeremy Wotherspoon has recently received a written undertaking from the office of The Andrew Marr show (BBC on Sundays) promising a platform for the party should it win a European parliamentary seat.

Swan_2

Baileys_Babe wrote: »

Quoted from: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp

Do I need a TV Licence?

You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence.

You do not need a TV Licence to view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.

If you use a digital box with a hi-fi system, or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.

Many people I know who do not have a TV licence (meet the above criteria) are continuley hassled as it is assumed everybody watches TV.

note the bit in bold above

you can have as many tellys, pcs, laptops, video recorders, dvd recorders, etc etc etc as you like, it's what you do with them that determines whether or not you need a licence

for instance watching videos, DVDs, Blu-rays & gaming does not require a licence

it's up to the TVLA people to prove that you've been breaking the law, to do that they'd have to enter your home to catch you in the act, & you are not actually obliged in any way to allow them access

shinjukumaster

TEDDYRUKSPIN wrote: »

The guys are not allowed to harrass the house but are allowed to knock.

RUBBISH! They are not allowed anywhere near the premises once 'Implied Right of Access' is denied.

No wonder they extort money out of vulnerable people who don't even have a TV, or receiver, with so many people unsure of the facts. They are racketeers.

Please do check the facts before you comment and mislead.

shinjukumaster

Swan wrote: »

note the bit in bold above

you can have as many tellys, pcs, laptops, video recorders, dvd recorders, etc etc etc as you like, it's what you do with them that determines whether or not you need a licence

for instance watching videos, DVDs, Blu-rays & gaming does not require a licence

it's up to the TVLA people to prove that you've been breaking the law, to do that they'd have to enter your home to catch you in the act, & you are not actually obliged in any way to allow them access

CORRECT - and you are not in any way obliged to engage with them in any way whatsoever.

shinjukumaster

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

shinjukumaster

TEDDYRUKSPIN wrote: »

However, they can actually check if you are actually watching any tv programs as your tv emmits a special signal wave which is picked up by their equipment. All I can say is that you must have an aerial which is plugged into the tv.

Or a tv very need to the aerial which is picking up a very weak tv signal. It can happen!

Well, if that is so, have a look at this:

http://www.tvlicensing.biz/televisioncloakingdevice/index.php