I don't need a TV Licence because....

[Airspeed]

I never pay for a TV licence.
We don't have them in Australia.

[DaveB]

Way to go Mike

I have to admit that paying an annual TV licence is one thing that really gets my goat. I watch GP coverage on the Beeb since it moved there from ITV.. I watch MotoGP on the Beeb and every now and again.. I'll watch BBC4 late evening if all else is worse. Outside these 3 things.. I don't watch the Beeb at all. I rarely listen to the radio either!
I can't see public funding ever stopping though.. nice as that would be for me and many others.

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Why are the British funding arious news channels all over the World.?

Only UK stations should be funded

[DaveB]

Perhaps they're trying to compete with Rupert Murdoch


ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

They.ve always done that...I think is left over from the colonial days

They do it it in loads of languages too.

All this costs money and those countries don't buy a licence.

[DaveB]

Bringing British/Western culture to the masses..

Imagine what a nice place 'Mother Earth' would be if everyone were like us!


ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

They tried it once and........

[airboatr]

The grammar around here is becoming atrocious.

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Oh
..and I've been accused of being a bad talker.







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[Garry Russell]

It can't be mine...they're both dead

[Jon.M]

Well, I'd like to thank you chaps who pay the BBC licence fee.

For years, especially before having access to the internet, the BBC World Service was like a lifeline for me. I don't listen to it much any more as the short wave coverage in Europe has been cut back a lot. But now there's the BBC News website which is my home page and BBC Radio over the internet. Then there are the free podcasts I download every week; The Now Show and Saturday Live amongst them.

I do have to pay the licence fee for the RAI; Radio Audizione Italiana. It's generally dire, but as one of the few programs I watch regularly features lots of recycled and dubbed David Attenborough some of my licence fee presumably ends up in the Beeb's coffers. The new head of the Rai has promised to get rid the scantily clad showgirls, but there's always Mediaset. The terrestrial channels owned by Silvio. I don't think they're giving up on the dancing girls just yet.

Jon