TV licences for BBC programmes abroad?

[daz1969]

Do any other countries pay a TV licence? On a visit to Australia I noticed a TV channel dominated by BBC TV shows... but they did not have to pay a licence fee!

[Ethel]

Australia pay the BBC for the right to broadcast their progarammes, or they buy individual programmes to suit their target audiences. The BBC has a huge revenue from selling its programmes all over the world.

Everything you need to know about tv licences worldwide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licenc e

[Stu in USA]

Here in the USA we have public television that show a lot of BBC shows. They are mainly funded by voluntary donations, which means you have to sit through "pledge drives" where they beg you for money during the show. Believe me after a while of that you'd rather pay a TV licence! Recently tried to watch the show about Windsor Castle and ended up taping it to fast forward through the pledge bits.

[SteveD]

We do here in Belgium.

In the area where we live, BBC 1 and BBC 2 are provided by our cable company so a fee will be paid by that company to the BBC in order to distribute the two channels.

BBC-produced programmes and those made by and for other British TV companies are shown here having been bought and dubbed or subtitled prior to transmission by the various broadcasters.