T V License

[stanwilcock]

If I am paying Virgin Media for my bbc channels, why do I have to buy a TV license, I dont have an aerial so dont receive signal. Can someone please clarify. Thanks

[New Judge]

You need a TV licence to receive broadcast television programmes if you watch or record them at the time they are broadcast. This applies no matter who is broadcasting the programmes, how you receive the signals (whether by terrestrial aerial, cable, satellite or over the internet) and is irrespective of whether you watch the BBC or not.

[Buenchico]

http://www.tvlicensin...heck-if-you-need-one/

Your payments to Virgin Media don't fund
* 1. BBC Radio Cumbria
* 2. BBC Newcastle
* 3. BBC Tees
* 4. BBC Radio Lancashire
* 5. BBC Radio Merseyside
* 6. BBC Radio Manchester
* 7. BBC Radio Leeds
* 8. BBC Radio Sheffield
* 9. BBC Radio York
* 10. BBC Radio Humberside
* 11. BBC Lincolnshire

East Midlands

* 12. BBC Radio Nottingham
* 13. BBC Radio Leicester
* 14. BBC Radio Derby

West Midlands

* 15. BBC Radio Stoke
* 16. BBC Radio Shropshire
* 17. BBC WM
* 18. BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
* 19. BBC Hereford & Worcester

East

* 20. BBC Radio Northampton
* 21. BBC Three Counties Radio
* 22. BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
* 23. BBC Radio Norfolk
* 24. BBC Radio Suffolk
* 25. BBC Essex

London

* 26. BBC London

South East

* 27. BBC Radio Kent
* 28. BBC Sussex
* 29. BBC Surrey

South

* 30. BBC Radio Berkshire
* 31. BBC Oxford
* 32. BBC Radio Solent

West

* 33. BBC Radio Gloucestershire
* 34. BBC Wiltshire
* 35. BBC Radio Bristol
* 36. BBC Somerset

South West

* 37. BBC Radio Devon
* 38. BBC Radio Cornwall
* 39. BBC Guernsey
* 40. BBC Jersey

[Buenchico]

I hadn't even finished my list before I somehow managed to click 'Submit'!

Please add
BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Ulster
BBC World Service (in the near future)
and the BBC website.

Your TV licence helps to fund all of those.

Chris

[DTCwordfan]

And to borrow the analogy if someone decides to go private medically, (one could say with good reason), they still de facto pay for the NHS through their taxes.

Obligation of being a respectable member of brit society......

[factor-fiction]

... and if you have no children you still have to help fund the education system by paying tax.

However, whilst I'm not yet against the taxpayer funding the BBC I think the BBC does need to be more accountable and reduce its spending in some areas; and I'm in favour now of it being funded from general taxpayers through income tax/VAT rather than through a licence fee (which some people evade and is fairly expensive to collect).