TV Licencing Harassment Tactics and Letters, Should the TV Licencing HQ (BBC) Be Burned To The Ground?

People who watch TV should buy a TV licence because the fee funds the BBC (which i think if the damned BBC wants to blast there precious signal through my home home which is private property, should scramble it.. if they send there signal onto my property then that signal becomes mine whilst it is there)... However in a realistic light some people choose not to recive TV signals for good reason and disconnect the detuned TV from an Anttena which is then soley used for DVD, VCR, Games Consoles, Home Video Cameras, Etc, Etc.. ( the BBC cannot belive that anyone would not want to watch TV so persist in a most evil and harrasing computeried campaign against individuals who do not want there service....





I serverd with the British armed forced during the first gulf war.. our vehicle a challenger main battle tank without a doubt took the lives of many enemy soldiers.. we were told that this was in the name of freedom .. I come home and find that i cannot even defend my own home...

TV Licencing Harassment Tactics and Letters, Should the TV Licencing HQ (BBC) Be Burned To The Ground?
Well said 'spooky' and I agree. As far as I am concerned they can be burned to the ground and never remembered again! Their programs are repeated trash anyway...





It seems the BBC can do what they like and we don't have a say, talk about 'big brother' watching you! I would vote for a 'ban the BBC anyday'!





Wish you had a battle tank now! I would gladly help the 'attack'... ;-)
Reply:My TV is detuned and I have no connection to an aerial. I don't watch TV as it's broadcast and as such, don't need a licence. However, I get at least one threatening letter a month telling me I don't have a licence, they can authorise anyone to visit but he'll need a search warrant to enter my house, that'll cost them money and no return for their investment.
Reply:When the BBC can spend £310,000 a year on biscuits then something is wrong....they should be held more accountable to the licence payers...





I resent having to pay the fee.....especially for a lot of the crap they laughingly refer to as entertainment.


Nine programmes out of ten are repeats....advertised as 'yet another chance to see this much loved...' or 'a compilation of your favourite clips'...usually introduced by some overpaid half assed has-been whose private life has all the stability of a wallpaper paste table...





We gotta sit through 10 minutes of a weather report telling us about Hurricane frigging Herbert, which happens to be three thousand miles from the UK and going away from us at the speed of sound, a twenty five year accumulation of half inch of rainfall in a Kurdistan parking lot, then a satellite pic of the UK through a UV filter, a satellite pic of the UK through a IR filter then an ordinary satellite pic of the weather-mans bungalow in Kent, just to find out the weather is gonna be crap tomorrow ...and even then they never get it right! Where's our sodding storms?





I was rather hoping that when Billy Cotton, George Chisum, Arthur Askey %26amp; Co. retired the Beeb would replace them with talent...but we still have the cliquey little groups that appear in completely unfunny sit-coms and turn up at every self back patting showbiz party the Beeb likes to throw with our money, record and then peddle it back to us as entertainment...
Reply:I think they should add the cost of the licence on at the Till. IF we have to have it. I don't think we should have to have one, considering the tax we pay in this country.





The seller should be liable for providing a licence for the TV's it sells, as a responsible retailer.





Then none of us would have to put up with this terrorism and bullying from the TV licencing gang.
Reply:I can't belive that the powers that be, are still allowing these rip off merchants to terrorise us at will. I rarely watch the BBC, certainly not enough to warrant the huge fee that they expect to get from us. As my father is now 75 years old, we are off the hook, but we did pay it faithfully, and grudgingly for many years. In this day of satelite and cable, it's totally outrageous to expect folk to pay for something that they rarely watch.... Grrrrrr..
Reply:I agree with you I don't like paying it but I have to, I got caught and when they came to the door and asked me if I was watching TV I said yes, I didn't have much money at the time so they asked why I didn't have one as if wanting me to come out with some bull story, I just said no money sorry you can't take trousers off a bare **** (bum), 3 days later I got a summons and ended up with a £50 fine. I hate paying it.





Actually if you think about it they do advertise, there own programmes!!
Reply:TV License is just one big con. I have a license now, but for years I never bothered with it.
Reply:Try living in a country without a national subscription channel. You'd soon be screaming for the BBC.
Reply:I climbed out of the window once to avoid the tv license man! Got one the next day, I had to borrow the money, but now I pay with card at paypoint, its robbery, especially when we hear what they spend it on.
Reply:You've got a point, a good one. Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it at the moment. BUT that is about to change; as you no doubt know, TV is going entirely digital and as the law stands you have to pay a TV license if you have equipment capable of receiving broadcast signals. Of course that means if you want a TV for DVDs, games etc but not for TV programmes you have to remove the aerial from your house and render all TVs incapable of receiving the signals. However, once it all goes digital that means standard non-digital TVs won't be able to receive the signals without a digi-box, and that means if they're the only type of TV you own, you won't have to pay the licence fee. And I have that in writing from the TV licence company (took me a while to get a straight answer; they obviously didn't want to admit it, but had no choice). Bring on the digital age and freedom from having to pay £120 a year just because I have the ABILITY to watch a load of crap.
Reply:I agree with you! Programming from the BBc sucks, to receive any decent programmes I subscribe to Sky, I also paid extra for a TV with Freeview built in so why should I pay again simply to line the pockets of some fat wallet in a suit! Especially when they put the fees up to cover the cost of the fines they received for ripping off their viewers?! I say if we all boycott our license fees they may get the message!


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C**** - you choose lol





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Reply:Years ago, I was done twice for not having a licence.





The second time was a week after I'd given birth, and the git said he wanted to make an example of me....





I became a master of avoiding the front door, but obviously my luck ran out and got caught.





I have a current licence now, which is a waste of money and total con for the service we get. It's not good enough just to *not* have adverts - they need to make their service worth the money.
Reply:I totally agree with you on that one. My hubby's friends have got Turkish satellite TV. half of them don't even speak English properly. they have to buy a TV licence just so they can ignore the BBC. they haven't even got any English channels tuned in to their telly.


I begrudge paying for it too because it is mostly repeats anyway!!!

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