Is the TV licence worth paying these days?

[Barley]

I got a letter through the door yestreday to remind us that we didn't have a TV licence. Well we only moved into the place the other week and to be honest it did slip my mind to buy one.

Anyway to avoid the £1,000 fine I nipped onto their website and set up a DD for the TV licence. I was more than a little shocked to find out they wanted over £31!! a month for it!

There's no way what they show on the BBC channels is worth that amount of money. Top Gear and Dragons Den aside they show nothing but trash 24/7.

[Anonymous]

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[Barley]

If you get Sky you still need a TV Licence

[Belso]

TV at the moment is just plain rubbish.

I can honestly say, i have not watched TV at my house in the last month, unless its walking passed and its been on :wink:

[Mighty_Jah]

Lol...Bring back Giles Brandreth...!!

Nah TV...is Boll.Ox. and nowhere near worth 30 quid a month, I propose a rebelion, Ill gladly pay my monthly Tv Tax...If I get a decent channel package, phone calls free, and a 2mb Broadband connection. sounds about right for 30 quid these days...and the BBC can still keep spending it on re-runs, and keeping Noel EdmUnds on TV...




mIGHTY... :wink:

[Aaron]

£31??! I thought it was £120ish/year?

[Mighty_Jah]

The official....Prices >>> A colour TV Licence costs £131.50 and a black and white licence costs £44.00.

£30 quid a month would be...£360

Probably in intallments of £31.00 rather than Monthly...!

even so...the fact remains...its crap...!


M... :wink:

[Barley]

[quote:16a52b9f04=\"Mighty_Jah\"]

The official....Prices >>> A colour TV Licence costs £131.50 and a black and white licence costs £44.00.

£30 quid a month would be...£360

Probably in intallments of £31.00 rather than Monthly...!

even so...the fact remains...its crap...!


M... :wink:[/quote:16a52b9f04]When you start a new licence they do you over for the first 6 months so you're always 6 months into whichever licence you're currently using, it sucks but they do it to everyone. I think the price goes down after 6 months or something.

Either way £131.50 a year is WAY too much for the rubbish they're showing.

We should ALL stop paying out licences, they can't sue everyone.

[Aaron]

There was some guy who sent his payment to the BBC in cash, but half the money he sent was photocopies of real money. He said it was to pay for all the repeats that were shown on BBC instead of original TV.

Quite clever I thought - I'm not sure what the BBC did about it though!

[House]

To be fair, we are one of the few countries with such a fine example of public sector broadcasting. The commercial channels are essentially that, channels that are designed to show commercials and have the programmes there to get the viewers. This means that they will always go for demographics, and essentially the lowest common denominator for the highest viewership. I'm not disputing that there are some amazing programs out there on the commercial channels, but on the whole they are a lot worse than the Beeb. The BBC channels do have the widest diversity of programs out there, and we do get the radio and BBC news included, so it's not all about the TV. Channel Four is slightly different though - I believe that they are bound by some sort of regulations that make it a half-way between the Beeb and commercial TV. I'm all for paying the TV licence - the alternative is to have more and more adverts in our programmes spoiling the flow. It already annoys me when a good program is interupted every 10 minutes or so for the same adverts that are always broadcast at the height of the volume allowance...[wanders off to rant in a corner]...

[Mighty_Jah]

Begging to differ ever so slightly HoUse mate...but what about those great ads that were a lot better than the prog you were watching.at the time..the Tango series for instance..Guiness..and this new one with the car/scateboard thingy...gotta beat, The Bill...E.R..New DR wHO...etc..?? sHurley...?


M...Soz..straight from Pub.... :wink:

[Barley]

I love the new PG Tips adverts with Monkee!

[Biodoid]

[quote:d41aa7b3bd=\"Barley\"]I love the new PG Tips adverts with Monkee! [/quote:d41aa7b3bd]


is Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka starring in it as well

[Cheule]

I sometimes wonder about BBC shows rescreened abroad y'know.

For example, I was reading about how the Americans loved the first series of Life on Mars when it was shown there recently. My first thought was ....\"yes but were they made to pay the licence fee before being able to watch it?\". Hell no.

[Aaron]

But does the BBC actually have channels in the USA etc? or do they just sell the programs to foreign TV companies and make the money that way?