TV Licence?
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archie
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I don't think that the licence is specific to watching the BBC. This from the licensing website:
'You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast. This includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder.'
If you mean, would I prefer to have no TV licence and no BBC funded by the licence, the answer would be 'no' not least because of all the excellent radio broadcasting.
'You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast. This includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder.'
If you mean, would I prefer to have no TV licence and no BBC funded by the licence, the answer would be 'no' not least because of all the excellent radio broadcasting.
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The only terrestrial channel with zero merit is ITV.
I'm a big fan of the Beeb - the bad things are bad, but the good things tend to be excellent.
I'm a big fan of the Beeb - the bad things are bad, but the good things tend to be excellent.
Well said; it's easy to forget that the TV Licence includes the Radio Licence, which - until the early '70s I think - was separate. So if you didn't own a TV you still had to pay a Radio Licence. Now, of course, if you have no TV you pay nowt for the privilege of listening to ab fab BBC Radio; for which I'd happily pay the full TV Licence anyway
BBC TV is a tarnished jewel but still glitters in bright light. BBC4 is bright but is underfunded now with too many repeats; a situation that may change when BBC3 is shifted to on-line only
My main gripe with the Beeb is, given that the TV Licence is compulsory, why do they feel they have to compete ratings-wise with the competition?
I watch little TV but it can deliver.
Radio 4 is an absolute gem . Radio 3 is growing on me all the time
But as with any public corporation there is a lot of waste and overstaffing. Maybe that has been addressed but my brother (who is middling politically) worked on a contract there for a few months and said he reckoned about one in four staff actually did anything on any given day
Radio 4 is an absolute gem . Radio 3 is growing on me all the time
But as with any public corporation there is a lot of waste and overstaffing. Maybe that has been addressed but my brother (who is middling politically) worked on a contract there for a few months and said he reckoned about one in four staff actually did anything on any given day