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# If only it was
Licence Fee: RIP

(Is it true that we're the only country in the world where you need a licence to own a television?)
(I helped save b3ta! watashi-wa Evenin'!, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:15, archived)
# nope
Ireland
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:15, archived)
# he
hehe
(I helped save b3ta! Steerable_forehead Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration,don't fail me now, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:18, archived)
# might be
but we're one of the only countries in the world where you don't have adverts
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:15, archived)
# Except for the
incessant adverts for their own programs and their digital programming.
(I helped save b3ta! watashi-wa Evenin'!, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:18, archived)
# better that
than ads for Currys or other such shit.

the license fee is the same as about 3 months cable, and most of the good stuff on cable is on the BBc channels anyway. it's a fantastic thing
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:21, archived)
# It just irritated me
that the licence fee went up to fund their digital 'line-up' which contains maybe three decent programs (none of which I've seen because I don't HAVE digital - so, again, why should I have to pay for it?) amongst the whole lot.
(I helped save b3ta! watashi-wa Evenin'!, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:25, archived)
# they make
pooloads selling the news to other countries.
(I helped save b3ta! Steerable_forehead Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration,don't fail me now, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:30, archived)
# Get a freeview box.
And I didn't notice the fee going up, when did that happen?
(tomsk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:30, archived)
# Either last year
or the year before. I can't remember exactly.
(I helped save b3ta! watashi-wa Evenin'!, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:31, archived)
# it wasn't just for that
it goes up every year.
anyway, the digital services are fantastic. bbc4 is wonderful and bbc3 has some wonderful stuff on it - has anyone seen nighty night yet? it roxxors my soxxors
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:35, archived)
# what bugs me
is I don't watch TV, the TV's not even set up for it, we use it to watch DVD's yet we still apparently need a licence...
(I helped save b3ta! NomDePlume fo shizzle my nizzle old bean, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:20, archived)
# Oh.
Well, you could always not pay it and see what happens.
(tomsk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:35, archived)
# what pisses me off even more
is that WE pay the licence fee for all the programmes that are broadcast to the rest of the world.

visit the BBC website & you can listen to the radio for free, wherever you are in the world. courtesy of UK licence payers
/rant
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:55, archived)
# Aren't the BBC under some remit
by the government to get everyone onto digital TV so they can switch off the old signals? If so they have to promote digital TV in order to get people to want to watch it
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:28, archived)
# Also
digital transmission uses loads less power so it's cheaper for broadcasters.
(I helped save b3ta! Bingowings 2011 Businessman of the Year (Watford Branch), Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:35, archived)
# too right
(I helped save b3ta! chobb ,ø¤ºGREATº¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ºRAPISTº¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ºRECOMMENDEDº¤ø, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:24, archived)
# My girlfriend is from Australia
Apparently ABC has no adverts yet THEY don't pay a license fee...
(Nefarious Tim, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:29, archived)
# how
does it survive?
(I helped save b3ta! corington, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:31, archived)
# Jamaica.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:33, archived)
# no
but I said if she didn't go, I'd burn her best cookin dishes
(I helped save b3ta! SarahRatt, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:59, archived)
# It
eats its young
(I helped save b3ta! CarlosTheJackal, protector of innocence, taker of liberties, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:34, archived)
# 2c a day
from every Australian... or something
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:38, archived)
# Gosh,
it almost sounds like some kind of system whereby people pay to support their national broadcaster. What a revolutionary concept.
(tomsk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:42, archived)
# yes
i think so. but todays events aside, it generally is good value for money.
(I helped save b3ta! raver, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:15, archived)
# but it pays for David Attenborough,
so I don't care.
Or have a television, for that matter
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:17, archived)
# But it also pays for martian
the fuckass.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:29, archived)
# Nope
France you need one too, I believe.
(I helped save b3ta! Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:18, archived)
# naah
or at least not in my experience. mitterand privatised the telly in the 80s (yes, all by hiself)
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:22, archived)
# Ireland
and quite a bit of Europe.... Denmark for example, Australia, New Zealand
NRK in Japan is also funded by a license, the NRK man comes round and threatens you if you haven't paid it
(Scary, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:19, archived)
# What about the station that domo-kun is on?
If they used the threat of domo, i would make damn sure my liscencencencenceee (HowTF do you spell that anyway?) was paid
(I helped save b3ta! VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:24, archived)
# yes, but you dont have to pay the NRK man
because they cant prosecute

or so im told...
(I helped save b3ta! lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:28, archived)
# No
You need one in Finland.
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:46, archived)
# I tried....
I like to think that I may have pissed on the license fee bonfire just a tad. If you recall all those ads they used to show where they have to drill into a thicko that it's just £9 a month. Yes, just £9 a month.
I bought a TV license, paid by DD and it was £22 a month. Yes, £22 a month. (Apparently if it's your first license they make you pay two years at once or some shit) I complained profusely and made like a dog with a bone. Strangely, those particular ads ceased.
(lord nose, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:48, archived)