Why do people in England have to pay for a TV Licence?!
Question: I just read that you must have a licence to own a TV in England and if you don't pay up (over $250 dollars a year American money) they actually have vans going around to pick up signals and arrest people? Ummm why?
We have cable stations that we pay for but its optional. PBS is funded by donations. But we still have 7 stations of free quality TV.
What is the licence for? Is it for Programming without commercials?
Is it for every color tv/vcr/computer in the house or one fee for all?
This is new to me. Is it for some good cause?
Answers: I just read that you must have a licence to own a TV in England and if you don't pay up (over $250 dollars a year American money) they actually have vans going around to pick up signals and arrest people? Ummm why?
We have cable stations that we pay for but its optional. PBS is funded by donations. But we still have 7 stations of free quality TV.
What is the licence for? Is it for Programming without commercials?
Is it for every color tv/vcr/computer in the house or one fee for all?
This is new to me. Is it for some good cause?
You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, or computers that are set up to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV.
The fee covers your entire household.
If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.
You also don't need a separate one if you're a student who lives at home over the holidays and watches TV on a laptop with an aerial plugged in, because it's battery operated and there's some loophole that allows your parents licence to cover you.
Basically, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.
It pays for the websites on bbc.co.uk, the national tv channels, national radio stations, some local radio stations, and also the cost of broadcasting.
It's supposed to guarantee good quality programs, although I think most of the UK would agree that the quality has definately gone downhill!
It's cos our government are a bunch of money grabbing twats...It's basically only for the BBC channels which are crap anyway, we get conned with everything in this country....
yes its true, we do pay for our tv licence, and we pay extra if we want sky or cable, it is disgusting, we have crap on tv
Basically, the licence fee (currently ￡135.50 per year) funds the BBC (the British Broadcasting Corporation), allowing it to provide its channels (two of which, BBC1 and BBC2 are available on terrestrial TV, with several more available on cable and satellite and regionally) FREE of advertising. 92.5% of the UK population used the BBC every month in 2006/2007.
You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV. A colour TV Licence costs ￡135.50 and a black and white licence costs ￡45.50.
Learn more at http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/.
no commercials, man! Ain't that, like, heaven? And a fully independent media, of course, free of any undue influence by commercial or political interests. Btw: pls DO pay, 'cause they're gonna catch you fr sure if you don't pay!
Long live auntie Beeb!
In Romania is the same thing. Here there are 2 fees (one for TV and one for radio). After some calculations, it seems that the fees are equivalent. I believe that the fee is taken because advertising got smarter and relocate their funds from public TV channels to channels that atract best audience points. Or maybe because they are greedy S.O.B.(sons-of-bitches)
￡i30.00 at the moment going up to￡150 .00 next year .b.b.c are the people that get the money .commercial stations get theirs by adverts.fine of ￡1000.00 pounds if you don't have a licence for your t.v.
good qustion imgriants dont have to pay who live in engaland so why should we have to pay weather we work or not no wonder they come over here they live the life of riley desgusting
Because it funds the BBC which is supposed to be objective and non political - ha ha
yes we do have to pay a license: ￡135 per year. It is only for BBC channels that are made with this money, the only saving grace it that it is commercial free. The other channels (ITV, channels 4 and 5) are free. To get other channels, you have to buy a freeview box or subscribe to cable or sky packages. It really annoys me! you can't just opt not to watch BBC, even if you are paying other service providers! If you have a tv you have to pay. (one charge per household). Rip Off! and no, it is not for good causes: the BBC take the money and waste it on programmes they want to make, not necessarily what we want to watch, whilst sky poaches all the best programmes from the USA like Lost and Prison Break so if you want to watch them you have to pay again!
Well,not all tv users in England and the United Kingdom pay TV License.This is because the government also makes it easy to be so.In UK,you are free now to watch up to 10,000channels of TV without any license and this should be great News to students.A comapny called http://www.realfreetv.net is offering various packages of TV Channels but you need no TV license to watch it.I am a user my self and I will recommend realfreetv.net to anyone interested expecially now that they have released their Latest 2008 Edition.