karym6
DW Regular
Channel 4 does not get any of the licence fee:
I got that little gem from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#United_Kingdom
I misread. but, they will benefit from the license fee in future
Channel 4 does not get any of the licence fee:
did you fill in a form in currys? or did you pay by card and they then traced you?
if it was by card put a written complaint to currys and to your bank for breach of data protection, currys will give you some vouchers![]()
i deal with, install, and sell tellys
shops and distributors CHOOSE to collect details for the licensing bodies, they do not 'by law' have to do so, i choose not to, if my customers want to inform them that they have a new tv or whatever then thats up to them.
i had a huge row with my bank, as i use my business debit card to buy anything from a £9 freeview box to a top of the range plasma telly. the card is in my company (or teading as) name, yet i was recieving letters from the license people in my name, then one day one said i had bought a TV from tescos (which i had, but just chip and PIN'd and job done)
i wrote to tescos asking how the tv licensing people could have gotten my name, from just a card number when my name wasnt on the card. tesco told me they (electronically) asked the bank, who told them everything, and tescos passed it on
from the outcome of it all, i got the £90 for the telly back from tescos, a written apology from the bank, and told the licensing people that if i hear from them again i will start legal action for harrassment
nearly a year later (and god knows how many tellys, STBs etc on bank card) and not a single letter from them
THEY ARE NOT A LAW
tv license? whats one of them?
come in to inspect my license? ive not got one m8, come in to inspect my telly? you better have a fookin good warrant to get in my front door
detector vans? i know the handheld units only have VERY limited range, i also know they wont pick up any readouts from an LCD screen so youre picking up the neighbours telly m8
id pay for sky pefore i paid for a tv license, and that wont happen either
Interpretation of provisions about dealer notification
(1) Section 6 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 (interpretation of provisions requiring notification of sale and hire of television sets) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), for the definitions of “television dealer”, “television programme” and “television set” there shall be substituted—
““television dealer” means a person of any description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State setting out the descriptions of persons who are to be television dealers for the purposes of this Part;
“television set” means any apparatus of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State setting out the descriptions of apparatus that are to be television sets for the purposes of this Part.”
(3) After that subsection there shall be inserted—
“(1A) Regulations under subsection (1) defining a television set may provide for references to such a set to include references to software used in association with apparatus.”
Channel 4 does not get any of the licence fee:
They can have you for anything capable of receiving a broadcast signal. A tuned satellite dish with a receiver box is licensable, whether you choose to pay that is up to you.
I wonder if Sky and VM are obliged to report to Crapita in the same way...
The BBC produce 10 hours a week of S4C programming and all their Welsh news bulletins, worth ~£72m a year. (sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4806874.stm http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/finance/interview/interview_iona_jones.html)
Government-funded Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has warned it could face a multimillion-pound funding gap by 2009 unless new subsidies are found for digital broadcasting.
New S4C chief executive Iona Jones told The Guardian that extra funding would be required to help S4C meet its obligations to digital switchover and allow it to move into new media.
Without extra funds, the creative sector in Wales would be undermined, warned Jones.
"The whole infrastructure would be under threat," she told The Guardian.
SC4 is partly funded via a grant of £86m from the culture department.
I can understand where people are comming from in that they don't watch the BBC's TV channels, but the license fee also pays for the BBC's radio stations (national and local) and their website. It also pays for the maintainance of the broadcast equipment (e.g. relay antenae) used by all the terrestrial broadcasters, TV and radio.
Some European countries actually have their TV license collected through their electric bill (even if they don't own a TV). So be gratefull that there is some element of opt in for the UK.
The BBC/Government are considering taxing all PCs (not just those with TV tuner cards) when the royal charter runs out in 2017: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/pc_tax/ - The cynic in me suggests the iPlayer was developed to strengthen the BBC's argument for this change in legislation... The fair way to levy the licence then would be for the ISPs to collect rates tiered against the speed the customer is receiving on the BBC's behalf. (But I doubt that will happen!)
I got that little gem from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#United_Kingdom
I misread. but, they will benefit from the license fee in future. However, this could teach me a lesson when it comes to Wikipedia...
I watch Top Gear, Match of the Day, Have I Got News for You, QI, nature programs, programs like those with Micheal Palin etc. so I think it's great value.
Anything that raises standards has got to be a good thing, especially considering the utter garbage served up by hundreds of cable/satellite channels.
Couldn't agree more if you enjoy the BBC it's belting value because millions of people are forced to subsidise your costs
It it was utter garbage why do you have a sky/cable box ? You see what one person hates another will like
I want to watch live Premier League football. The only way I can do this is to pay Sky.
Because of this I have to pay for the utter garbage that's on many other channels, so I'm subsidising other people's viewing.
Hardly any football was on TV until Sky came along and seen the potential
But the thing is that's your choice and their isn't a choice when it comes to the mighty BBC :flame:
Hence the tuner box bit being in bold, but a JotP may decide its sufficent evidence to issue a warrant (although I'm sure I've seen a post by digidude in another thread that it doesn't for the very reason you've given).alot of the Dishes you see these days are not even plugged in because they've been left behind when people moved just like the aerials on the roof![]()
I wish I could say £158m wasn't enough!Even though it only gets a hand full of viewers. Only 21.7% of the Welsh population (1.2 million) speak Welsh
Whilst that site looks to be American I'm having trouble finding the source of my assertion that the BBC maintains the TV transmitters so I'll retract that (for nowI don't listen to the radio much but when I do it tends to be Talksport which has nothing to do with the BBC. I also think you'll find the transmitters are privately owned and nothing to do with the BBC. Example http://www.crowncastle.com
"Those countries"? France and Germany are both more populous than the UK, and they have to suffer both a TV licence and advertising on stations funded by the licence. Admittedly the fee has to go futher as more companies have a slice of the pie. Check the distribution map for TV funding in Western Europe on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence (even though there are vast amounts of misinformation on wikipedia the map is drawn up from referenced information in the main text).Those countries tend to have one because their language isn't as widely spread as ours and so the TV would be poor without. I'll be grad when I can watch TV without being classed as a criminal for refusing to subsidise what others may like watching.
Provided any future computer licence is only chargable to those who have internet access, is not based on the amount of bandwidth used, and replaces the current TV licence (or so that you're not paying a suppliment or two licences) I don't think I'd have a problem with it at this moment in time... But I fear the BBC will want either a flat rate for all internet connections, irrespective of speed, or will want to charge based on total bandwidth used, regardless of what its used for (games, p2p, newsgroups etc).Yep that's the real reason the BBC is pushing the internet expansion so much. The Iplayer alone cost them(you) £450 million and you know what ? The BBC then teamed up with ITV and CH4 to announce a dedicated site afterwards lol
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