Tv License

[jamesnan]

Just wondered, as a matter of fact, since all the discussions about stopping the free tv licence for over 75's - do other countries pay a licence fee, if so how much, and does anybody get a free one?

[Khandro]

In Germany we pay €147 p.a. - approximately the same as in the UK , but the service is nothing like as good as you get from the BBC. There are fewer TV and radio channels, so it's really more like a tax.

[SIRandyraven]

In Switzerland we paid the “billad” and this cost approx £350 a year.
For this you got one Swiss state funded tv channel.
If you had no tv , but rapid in home you paid.
If you had no radio in home , but in car you paid.
If you had no car, but an internet connection that could give you imternet radio , you paid.
We paid it once when we moved in and they never billed us for it again during the 4 years we lived in Switzerland , so I didn’t chase them.
It was collected via Swisscom a private cable phone and tv company , bit like talktalk in uk. The Swiss government got them to collect on their behalf.
The state tv was mainly Swiss German language talk show aka men in knitted jumpers with beards smoking pipes and chatting about goats in the mountains :-)
We had cable tv and internet with Swiss com at a cost of £110 a m0mth that gave us 300Mbs internet both ways and 250 tv channels of which 22 were uk free view channels in English. We also opted for movies (6 channels) that were in English , but sad;y even thou film was in English , subtitles for when say a Russian or Klingon spoke in Star Trek were in German :-)

[Khandro]

SIRandyraven; I recently watched 'Some Like it Hot' dubbed into German with French subtitles :0)

[-SharonA-]

In the U.S. you don't need a licence but much commercials and a whole lot more choice of channels.

[ABerrant]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence