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Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee
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2nd Mar 2016 6:33pm
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BBC IPlayer Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee All users of BBC iPlayer's catch-up service will have to pay the £145.50 licence fee, the Government announced today. In a big blow to many households without TVs, Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said that he would bring forward legislation swiftly to allow the Corporation to charge for the first time for those who replay programmes on demand. As part of the plan to let the BBC recoup £150m in losses caused by iPlayer catch-up, many younger Britons who watch the BBC on their laptop or tablet will now face the annual fee or face prosecution. However, Mr Whittingdale said that decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee will be "carefully considered" by the government this summer. The crackdown on the iPlayer loophole is part of a controversial deal that will allow the BBC to recoup some of the cash it will lose from having to foot the bill for free TV licences for the over-75s. The Culture Secretary told MPs that the BBC taking over the £650m cost of the free licences would be phased in from 2018-19 with the corporation bearing the full cost by 2020-21. Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant attacked the plans as 'shabby backroom deal', while Former BBC reporter and Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw also rounded on the announcement, claiming it was "a significant assault. Source : click me
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Re: Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee
[Re: diggingdeeper]
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2nd Mar 2016 11:36pm
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Makes sense to need licence to watch iplayer.
I can't understand the call to privatise the BBC - have we got a need for yet another advert filled commercial station? Then there are problems that the standards on the rest of the channels will fall as there is no advert-free channel to compete against any longer. In my times in America the only stations of any quality were the Weather Channel and a couple of the news channels, all the other channels were rubbish and just a few minutes between adverts.
It looks like Channel 4 is about to be privatised.
Do you really think if the BBC is privatised then the TV licence will disappear? The licence is to receive all TV broadcasts, not just the BBC. It is a receiving licence, true. But not one of the commercial stations get a penny.
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Re: Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee
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3rd Mar 2016 12:50am
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Moved to my current house 5 years ago and have received a letter every 2 weeks to remind, then threaten me that The house doesn't have a TV licence. The wording of the letters is very deliberate and intimidating. They keep threatening to "open an investigation" "this is the information you will need when we take you to court" then "were sending the boys round" then it reverts back to Your house doesn't have a TV licence. Got crafty last week as they changed the usual envelope it comes in. I just cant see how they can actually catch you watching TV as you do not have to let them enter your house unless they have a warrant and a police officer present. Even then they have to see you watching a programme. In order to get a warrant they must have "evidence" or "reasonable evidence" to get a warrant issued. When they call on their own they only have an implied right of access to your front door. You do not have to open the door to them. You can politely (or not so politely) tell them to leave your property on pain of them trespassing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQeKy1v-R-I
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Re: Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee
[Re: Mark]
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3rd Mar 2016 1:45am
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Agree totally that the letters are highly intimidating, I have a draw full of them I kept for the record. Had a visit once, let him in and he seemed a bit miffed to observe at least two TV sets but he had to accept my explanation that they were not freeview capable and not connected to a freeview box.
On old CRT TV's you could detect them in use from outside the property, slightly harder with modern sets, if they got desperate they could video the illumination of a room from a screen through the window and see if it corresponds to a live broadcast which would be enough to obtain a warrant and if this found the presence of a TV then that would probably pass though court.
They don't have to catch you watching a program, the communications act also makes it an offence to install or intend to install, not just "use".
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Re: Catch-Up Users Will Now Have To Pay Licence Fee
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3rd Mar 2016 10:03am
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Meanwhile, they pay obscene amounts of money to talentless cretins like Jonathan Ross. Do they? I thought Johnathan Ross left the BBC after than scandal with Russel Brand. Doesn't he just have a chat show on ITV?
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Toyah . .
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