[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

£5.60 per week it is for a colour license to pay weekly sorry..was sure it was 7 quid but cose enough

She must have been in arrears? as it works out about 12.00 a month

TV Licence types and costs

It costs £145.50 for a colour and £49.00 for a black and white TV Licence. In some cases, you may be entitled to a reduced fee TV Licence (see table below).

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

She must have been in arrears? as it works out about 12.00 a month

TV Licence types and costs

It costs £145.50 for a colour and £49.00 for a black and white TV Licence. In some cases, you may be entitled to a reduced fee TV Licence (see table below).

http://cashplans.tvlicensing.co.uk/

Weekly its 5.60...as they get you to pay this years in 6 months and the next years the following 6 months

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

http://cashplans.tvlicensing.co.uk/

Weekly its 5.60...as they get you to pay this years in 6 months and the next years the following 6 months

Oh! I don't understand how that is a easy way to pay given you are paying double the normal rate

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Oh! I don't understand how that is a easy way to pay given you are paying double the normal rate

Well as usual it seems a way to take the piss out of the poorest IMO

I find it much easier to just pay the lump sum every year, she does that now too.

[Nedusa]

It's only about £2.80 a week so I don't know what the fuss is about. I would pay that just not to have to suffer constant adverts every 5 mins..........

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

It's only about £2.80 a week so I don't know what the fuss is about. I would pay that just not to have to suffer constant adverts every 5 mins..........

I would gladly pay it if I didnt have to suffer adverts. Unfortunately the channels I actually watch are still full of adverts.

I pay it anyway, but am a little bitter about it despite it being so low an amount.

[user104658]

I'm flirting with the idea of ditching mine (legitimately: removing all live TV reception facilities from my house) when my Sky contract is up in August. I never watch TV live, I sky+ a lot, but I literally watch NOTHING that I couldn't get on the various OnDemand services plus Netflix. So I'd be getting rid of a TV licence and a Sky sub (totalling about £40 a month) and getting a Netflix sub for £7 a month. Sounds like a deal. And would also be generally fun telling the TV licencing heavies where to jam their licence.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'm flirting with the idea of ditching mine (legitimately: removing all live TV reception facilities from my house) when my Sky contract is up in August. I never watch TV live, I sky+ a lot, but I literally watch NOTHING that I couldn't get on the various OnDemand services plus Netflix. So I'd be getting rid of a TV licence and a Sky sub (totalling about £40 a month) and getting a Netflix sub for £7 a month. Sounds like a deal. And would also be generally fun telling the TV licencing heavies where to jam their licence.

Go for it. Wouldn't get away with that in my house due to this idea of needing to watch live sports!

[joeysteele]

I begrudge every single penny of the TV licence, if I had my way I would scrap it tomorrow.
It is time the BBC competed in the real world in my view and was not fed from the pockets of people that find around £145 a year, every year hard to keep up with.

It is even worse that it had a criminal record element to it for not paying too.
Shocking, and for me it is time it was gone and consigned to history.

[smeagol]

it should be scraped completely , its 2014 people pay how much now for tv per month and yet still have to pay the greedy money grabbing con merchants money on top for 2 channels. its really mental if you think about it and how many channels there is.

it doesn't help the poor old ladies who are still slopping out in prison and have ended up someones bitch because they dont pay their tv licence

[smeagol]

speaking of the tv licence i know someone who is constantly hounded by them every week threatening letters and calls to pay the licence, even though they are already paid up in advance. they still want you to pay more in advance. 3 months left isn't good enough you must pay now for the next one and so on.
they are not well and the stress its caused its disgusting. the way they go about trying to get the money really is shocking. even if your paid up in advance they dont stop .
they shouldn't be allowed to do that to people.

[Marsh.]

Doesn't the licensing go towards "upkeep"? I'm sure I read the government are forcing the BBC to use the fee to pay for upkeep of technology for the broadcast of all television.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

Doesn't the licensing go towards "upkeep"? I'm sure I read the government are forcing the BBC to use the fee to pay for upkeep of technology for the broadcast of all television.

Looks like its upkeep of their own channels..http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-i...pay-for-top13/

Looking at that site, I realise 'I' do watch BBC. Well, cbeebies. But only at gavins dads house as he has no spoingebob squarepants channel

[Marsh.]

It must've been back when analogue TV was on they had to pay for the upkeep of all the technology and equipment that broadcast the signals.

[MTVN]

This might be quite ignorant of me, but with all the cutbacks the BBC are making do we really need both a Scots Gaelic television and radio channel, a Welsh language radio station, two different Northern Irish radio stations, and a BBC Asian network?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This might be quite ignorant of me, but with all the cutbacks the BBC are making do we really need both a Scots Gaelic television and radio channel, a Welsh language radio station, two different Northern Irish radio stations, and a BBC Asian network?

Depends, do the Welsh and Scottish contribute to the fee?

If so, why shouldn't they get the material catered for them?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

Depends, do the Welsh and Scottish contribute to the fee?

If so, why shouldn't they get the material catered for them?

Well I imagine so but there's a radio Wales and a radio Scotland already, then they also have another two separate stations which broadcast in Welsh/Scottish Gaelic. I know the Welsh in particular are proud of their own language and everything but is that really necessary, and Scottish Gaelic is hardly ever used I believe

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Well I imagine so but there's a radio Wales and a radio Scotland already, then they also have another two separate stations which broadcast in Welsh/Scottish Gaelic. I know the Welsh in particular are proud of their own language and everything but is that really necessary, and Scottish Gaelic is hardly ever used I believe

I would imagine so for the people who don't speak English.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

I would imagine so for the people who don't speak English.

Welsh people who can't speak English?

[Kizzy]

Well it's not a tax it's a licence and as said if people are struggling to heat or eat I personally don't blame them if they forgo this.
I'm sure the'll be those who think the poor should be in workhouses unknotting string if they can't get work rather than watching the box.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well it's not a tax it's a licence and as said if people are struggling to heat or eat I personally don't blame them if they forgo this.
I'm sure the'll be those who think the poor should be in workhouses unknotting string if they can't get work rather than watching the box.

but people who don't have enuf money to pay for gas or food don't pay any tax anyway.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by lostalex

but people who don't have enuf money to pay for gas or food don't pay any tax anyway.

Everyone pays council tax and VAT.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Everyone pays council tax and VAT.

Absolutely, no matter how people get their money, everyone pays tax in some form.
Although if your circumstances are right you can get full council tax rebate.

This Licence however is taken from all people except the over 75s.
If the BBC was made to be funded other ways then this obscene licence would not be in existence.

Everyone that wants certain channels are happy to pay subscription for that,I have no issue with that, Sky customers have to pay for packages of Channels,it is the BBC that wants to keep this daft licence and is the only real reason we still have it.

Well, not for me,I don't feel in any way the BBC is better a great deal of the time and in fact,I for one, don't even find them as good now as to certain programming.

This attempt to de-criminalise not paying the licence fee would go a good way to perhaps seeing the start of the end for the licence,for me that is a really good thing and way overdue in my view too.

Time the BBC was made to battle for viewers and improve its programming like all other channels and stop having its funding given to it on a plate as it has for far too long now.

[lostalex]

Why don't they just pay for the BBC out of regular tax dollars instead of a license fee? it would be so much easier and end this stupidity. Imagine how much money they would save from not having to hire people to collect the license fees and go after people not paying it.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Why don't they just pay for the BBC out of regular tax dollars instead of a license fee? it would be so much easier and end this stupidity.