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Re: TV licences
[Re: muzzy2]
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10th Jun 2019 8:02pm
10th Jun 2019 8:02pm
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granny
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I find it difficult to believe that the BBC can justify astronomical salaries but find it easy to end the free licences . We don't have to pay a BBC licence fee , so I understand . Apparently if we just watch programmes on iPlayer, we don't need a license fee. OK for those of us with a laptop etc. but many pensioners who might be just a couple of £'s above the pension credit limit, in many cases probably don't have the facility of internet . They've also probably experienced the same as most of us with a hike in council tax and energy costs.
We'll all be voting for euthanasia next. What's the point of trying to keep going when all the odds are stacked against the basics .
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: TV licences
[Re: granny]
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10th Jun 2019 11:18pm
10th Jun 2019 11:18pm
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Apparently if we just watch programmes on iPlayer, we don't need a license fee. Not any longer, You also need a licence to watch any live program from any broadcaster. You need a licence to watch any BBC programs whether live or not on iplayer. You can watch non-BBC, non-live programs without a licence. It is unclear whether you need a licence to watch a non-live BBC program that is not through iplayer, eg on youtube
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Re: TV licences
[Re: muzzy2]
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10th Jun 2019 11:27pm
10th Jun 2019 11:27pm
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granny
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Thanks, I'm pleased you've cleared that up.
I know of a couple of people (not personally) who said that's what they do, so maybe they have got away with it so far,... don't know.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: TV licences
[Re: diggingdeeper]
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11th Jun 2019 6:23am
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You need a licence to watch any BBC programs whether live or not, on iplayer. Need a comma there or it looks like BBC programs on Netflix/Youtube need a licence.
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Re: TV licences
[Re: muzzy2]
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13th Jun 2019 10:52am
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granny
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We should not forget that BBC received funding and has done for a number of years from the EU. They seem to be able to take money from all sides and use it for high wages. They certainly don't do much in the way of programmes other than foreign documentaries of air flight over the Sahara desert.. for example. ! Oh and NEWS, political programmes every which way , with high salaried presenters telling us how it should be through they eyes of the BBC, that has always sided with the EU..
Was the EU gaining control of our media ? I believe there is a very definite YES we only have to see how much news is NOT reported on the BBC in relation to what they don't want us to know. Where do the guidelines come from ?
BBC should be able to fund it themselves. When the EU fund something , that something loses control, as with farm subsidies where the EU have control of what is grown on that land... so indirectly it's their land. Same applies in many areas.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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