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Many Hong Kong people condemned the decision to reject HKTV's bid for a free-to-air television licence, saying it could sound the death knell for creative industries in the city.
An ad on a phone box warning people that every home in the UK can be spied upon to see if it has a television. This is to get people to pay for the vastly overpriced licence that allows them to "legally" watch crap programmes on TV.
As well as pay huge salaries to the übercrap, vastly overpaid TV presenters on the BBC.
Houlseholds not requiring a television licence receive letters each month, letters not explaining that if a TV Licence is not required no action is necessary. There can be few people in Britain who so remorselessly cause debilitating anxiety to innocent people than Gordon Smith and his merry men.
TV LICENSING tvlicensIng.co.uk Your status: Unlicensed June 2019 Dear Legal Occupier, An IN0139A3 code has been issued against your address. We use it to target unlicensed homes like yours that require a visit from TV Licensing Enforcement Officers. This letter is a formal notification that your details have now been passed to our Edinburgh Enforcement Team and you could be visited at any time; day or evening, weekdays or weekends. We need to check you are not breaking the law It is a criminal offence to watch or record live TV programmes on any channel or device, or download or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer, without being covered by a TV Licence. You could face prosecution* and financial penalties If Enforcement Officers find evidence of illegal T viewing: * You could be interviewed under caution in accordance with national criminal law, which could leave to prosecution. * The maximum penaly is a criminal conviction, a £,1000 fine, plus any legal costs and/or compensation you may be ordered to pay. To stop this visit from the Edinburgh Enforcement Team: * Buy a TV Licence at tvlicensing.co.uk/pay or call 0300 790 6015 - payments start from £6.00 a week. See reverse for more details about your payment options. * Or, move an existing licence to your current address at tvlicensing.co.uk/moving * Or, tell us you don't need one at tvlicensing.co.uk/noTV To stop this enforcement visit to your home - and change the status of your IN01.39A3 code - you need to ACT NOW. Yours faithfully, Gordon Smith Enforcement Manager, Edinburgh * In Scotland, Scottish criminal law applies. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal, who will decide on prosecution. Please do not write below this line. How to stop this Enforcement Visit. Buy a new TV Licence. Go to tylicensing.co.uk/pay or call 0300 790 6015. You can pay £154.50 in one go or spread the cost by choosing from our range of Direct Debit options. Go to tylicensing.co.uk/waystopay for more Information. If you prefer, you can pay in cash at any PayPoint using a TV Licensing payment card. Call 0300 555 3456 to apply for yours. Payments start from £6.00 a week. Or, move an existing licence. If you already have one, you can move it to this address by visiting tylicensing.co.uk/moying or call 0300 790 6015. Or, tell us you don't need one. If you don't watch or record any live TV on any channel, or device - and you never download or watch BBC programmes on demand, Including catch up TV, on BBC 'Player - go to tylicensing.co.uk/noTV or call 0300 790 6015 to let us know. We may check this with a visit. You should also tell us if this property is unoccupied. Aout your TV Licence. When do you need a TV Licence? You must have one if you watch or record any live TV on any channel - or you download or watch BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer. You need a licence even if you access BBC 'Player through another provider, such as Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT or Amazon. This applies to all devices, including a TV (or smart TV), computer, tablet, mobile phone, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder. It's the law. What does 'live TV' mean? Any programme you watch or record at the same time as it's being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 or Sky Go. Live TV also includes any +1 channel that rebroadcasts programmes an hour later. What does 'on demand' mean? Any programme you download or watch that Is not being shown as live TV. On demand includes catch up TV. These programmes can be accessed on a website or through an app on a smart TV, digital box or any other device. On demand can also include exclusive programmes that are only available online. Helpful information. Would you like this in a more accessible format? If you have sight problems, you can get this information by email or in Braille, large print or audio by calling 0300 790 6076. Could you get a concession? If you are blind and can provide the appropriate evidence, you are eligible to apply for a 50% concession. If you are partially sighted (sight impaired) you are not eligible. To apply, go online at tylicensing.co.uk/blind or call 0300 790 6015. If you are 75 years old or over, you can apply for a free over 75 TV Licence. To find out more, call 0300 790 6015. If you are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired, we support the Next Generation Text (NGT) Service. For more information see tylIcensing.co.uk/accessIblilty For help in these languages visit tylIcensIng.co.uk/languages Cymraeg Polski? Turkce Soomaali Portugues Espanol Francais, &c.
This was used in January 1997 in which the BBC paid for by Licence Fee payers showed what would not be shown on the BBC with spoof versions of BBC Programmes like three men on a sofa (Taken from comedy The Last of the Summer Wine)
The BBC is the principal tenant of MediaCityUK, based at Salford Quays, and it spent a pretty penny for this studio complex. Uniquely among the major broadcasters, the BBC does not draw revenue from commercial advertisers but is funded directly by the public from the compulsory issue of TV licences. That does not mean there is no advertising on BBC TV, in fact one endures a barrage of advertising for the BBC's own programmes and services.
I trace my antipathy to the BBC from my 1950s childhood: I loathed Listen with Mother. I did not then know the word "patronising", but patronised was how I felt as a six-year old. And when we acquired a television (rental, of course), I cared little for the stalwarts of that era, such as Richard Dimbleby, Gilbert Harding, Cliff Michelmore, Peter Dymock and Huw Wheldon - all pompous, plummy-voiced southerners to my Humberside ears. There were of course many BBC programmes that I have loved and revered (Hancock, Monty Python, the David Attenborough and Dennis Potter canons), but then all those school-marmy newsreaders, the self-proclaimed "Mission to Explain", the surfeit of Noel Edmonds, the long Jimmy Saville cover-up, and oh dear, no wonder I am on medication for high blood pressure. In the course of my recent UK visit, I watched zero minutes of television.
So today the prof is watching the Tour de France live on ITV.
We have never owned a TV set or watched live television in our house, and after it was decided that we didn't have to have a licence to listen to radio only, we have not contributed to BBC funding.
With the First Night of the Proms happening tonight, and our government determined to undermine the BBC and all it stands for, I decided the moment had come to shell out even if I don't have to.
I took the decision unilaterally, despite a certain sniffiness on the part of the prof, but I notice he is now embracing his new found freedom!
"London is in our database. Evaders will pay. It's all in the database."
Okay. Thanks.
This "advert" was put up at the end of my road for several weeks. If anyone in England is overly concerned about being on a database, or about being on camera all the time, rest safe in the knowledge that whatever information is stored on you is bound to be reported on the news as having been mislaid sooner or later, such is the trend nowadays.
I can't think of a better title for this photo of a very sinister-looking vehicle (taken at the BCVM in Leyland (taken two years ago this Sunday) than the title of a public information film from 1977 and featuring a Dodge SuperVan (an updated Commer PB) prowling a suburban street at night, on the lookout for anyone watching telly without a licence.
In the case of this PIF, the couple concerned were watching Columbo, according to the very sinister-looking operator of the scanner, who you would just want to kill. "If you don't have a TV licence, then it won't take us long to find you", says the voiceover, as two heavies get out of the van.
Now, here's something the BBC don't want you to know: Not a single detector van has resulted in a prosecution for non-payment of the licence fee and when asked by some journalist recently about how many vans had been deployed, the Beeb kept schtum. But what they DON'T know is that, say I worked for them, I could get that info easy just by asking for my own curiosity, if you know what I mean...
It may not be generally known that we in the UK have to buy an annual Television Licence in order to legally own and use a television receiver. However, when a member of a household reaches the age of 75 a free licence is issued to that household.
As I am rapidly approaching that milestone I recently received my free licence. The conditions of the licence are printed on the reverse, one of which amused me greatly.
"Our officers may visit the licenced place to verify our records and inspect the TV equipment at any time,but you do not have to let them in."
Interestingly, they say they know “every address without a TV licence”, and not “every address with a TV and without a TV licence”.
I would feel better about this if I knew the likes of Ryan Tubridy and Gerry Ryan did not paid so much by RTE
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