Fruit Machine Chat

I'll start the voting

and i'll start the license fee paying

of course
why would you not?

You don't have any choice do you?

Yes. It is absoutely outrageous but it is the law.

As Indiana Jones pinball used to say.

You wanna play? Ha ha you gotta pay!

I wonder who the 'one' is?

Direct Debit job, don't even realise it's been taken out tbh.

always

I haven't paid mine in 12 years.

A friend of mine hasn't paid his for as long as i've known him. Every so often he'll get letters saying they will fine him a grand if he doesn't pay but with no tv visible from outside they can't prove he has one. You'd need a license if you had a laptop because you can stream live bbc programmes on it. I wish the bbc would run adverts between shows like every other mainstream channel, then we wouldn't be hit with another pointless tax. The only thing worth watching on the bbc is the apprentice anyway.

However I still hope my friend gets fined, it'll teach him a lesson. 99.9% of the population pay it, I don't see why individuals should get away with it.

Il tel you whats funny.

Remember satanta? yes the channel hat had sports on all day but then ALSO had adverts.

and that was 1 channel for more than you pay for your TV licence.

BBC =
BBC1
BBC2
BBC3
BBC4
To many Radio stations to even mention across the UK all for that 1 payment each month which is less than what Satanta used to charge, Yet some STILL moan??

ask yourself this.
How many people have a break at work (for those who do) every 15 mins? None....I wish they would just be honest and just say "come back after this revenue moment" lol

I personally LOVE the fact that BBC still has no adverts.

for those of you that have ever been to the USA just watch an episode of simpsons. your looking at 5 breaks!!!
1 before the intro
1 after the intro!!!
2 in the cartoon
1 at the end!!!
THEN....... it comes back to roll the ending credits!!!

I remember last time i went 9 ears ago now. there was "titanic"on the telly over thereI looked in the TV guide, 4.5 hours!!!! coz of all the adverts.

that is how it will be here in 10 years if we then let EVERY channel have adverts.

Long live the BBC (with no adverts of course)

The thing about Setanta though was you did not have to pay the subscription by law in order to watch ANY other TV channel.

When the TV licence was first introduced in 1946 BBC was the one and ONLY TV channel and also had the monopoly on radio as well. So the TV licence may well have seemed reasonable at that time. But now 65 years later with 100s of channels available it is still collected on exactly the same basis. The BBC now only have about 35% of viewer hours.

There is no other state TV broadcaster with a budget the size of the BBC. The state broadcaster in China serves over a billion people at far less cost lol.

I would scrap the TV licence altogether and reduce the BBC to the size a state broadcaster should be. One TV channel and a few radio channels paid for by a grant from government revenue. Other channels and services could only be provided by the BBC if funded by commercial means.

quizard wrote:When the TV licence was first introduced in 1946 BBC was the one and ONLY TV channel and also had the monopoly on radio as well. So the TV licence may well have seemed reasonable at that time. But now 65 years later with 100s of channels available it is still collected on exactly the same basis. The BBC now only have about 35% of viewer hours..

And lets not forget that much of the resentment is caused by the sizeable chunk of the licence fee that the BBC ploughs into the digital media, that a large proportion of the licence-fee paying public are unable to receive.

At least with Setanta you'd only be paying your subs because you actually wanted to view the content, and of course had the means with which to view it.

I still watch Premier League games on Setanta Canada via my laptop on a Saturday, no different to the Setanta channels we used to get here.

you smoke a bud jeff charva ??

Fuck the bbc. can anyone remember that advert were that bloke had a video of a chicken going round in a microwave, he ustd to play when the tv lisence man came over?