TV Liscensing.

[Rascalnet]

Why, if you receive SKY or Cable TV into your home should you still have to buy a TV Liscense ?
I thought this was only to fund the BBC ?
Should the service provider now foot this bill ?

[mushroom25]

as it stands, it is an offence to receive broadcast tv services without having a licence, irrespective of whether it is satellite, cable, freeview or analogue terrestrial. (virgin media now say on their ts&cs that you service will be stopped if they discover you don't have a licence)

to make service providers pay for the bbc would require a change in the law, and you can bet that sky, virgin media, etc will pass the cost on to you.

[sunny jim]

As it stands it costs just about 8p an hour(if you watch tv the average amount of time) and as mushroom said if the commercial broadcasters were to fix the rate it would surely ba a lot higher.

[vehelpfulguy]

Surely it is no worse than someone asking a question about tv licensing who cannot spell it.

LICENSE not Liscense

[grover41]

Actually vehelpfulguy, it's LICENCE. That's how it is on my TV licence.

[anotheoldgit]

Both are correct grover41 actually Licence is a variant of License.

[Rascalnet]

Well vehelpfulguy (who didnt help me), its no worse than someone making the effort to point out someones mistake ......sad.