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Bbc Tv Licence
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I have no choice but to pay a fee to the BBC to watch any TV. I can choose if I want to pay to view Sky,Vigin etc, and if I don't choose to pay them, they do not stop me watching all the other channels, so why have the BBC this right? Is it time the BBC were a subscription channel, same as the others above, which I can choose to pay for, and if not, I can still watch all the other free channels?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I have had a TV licence every year since I left my parents house some 40 odd years ago - in actual fact my last licence is still current, because I didn't claim back the 6 months or so they owed me when I finally left England at the end of last year.
I watch the BBC entirely legally via a subscription to Sky Ireland - not via a 'hack' or freesat fiddle. As I understand it they (Sky) offset the amount they receive from their Irish BBC subscribers against the transport costs that the BBC pay for being broadcast on the Sky platform - so I do pay my way for the limited BBC channels I receive (although I agree that the precise amount is impossible to calculate).
I watch the BBC entirely legally via a subscription to Sky Ireland - not via a 'hack' or freesat fiddle. As I understand it they (Sky) offset the amount they receive from their Irish BBC subscribers against the transport costs that the BBC pay for being broadcast on the Sky platform - so I do pay my way for the limited BBC channels I receive (although I agree that the precise amount is impossible to calculate).
I have long said that the BBC should move to a subscription model - the Licence Fee is an outdated concept that has no place in the 21st Century.
It should have been done at the time of the digital switchover - the technology was proven and the opportunity obvious. Unfortunately successive Governments (of both colours) bottled the decision - a great shame.
It should have been done at the time of the digital switchover - the technology was proven and the opportunity obvious. Unfortunately successive Governments (of both colours) bottled the decision - a great shame.
The BBC gets about £3.8 billion in licence fee payments - if you posit 30 million units deciding to subscribe on an individual or household basis (remember they could offer subs packages from abroad too, and stronger encryption would mean that freloaders on the Costa del Pensione would have to cough up) that's an average of £125 per sub - a tenner a month.