BBC Strike, TV Licence Increase ‘Utter Disgrace’ & More Acquisitions 

Every letter RTS...GFY 😂👍👍 ( go fund yourself 😂)

@mollienight its addressed to the resident...it proves nothing..

14 years + here.

2026 and it'll be 50 years for me.

​@mollienightnice one 👍 you can book a round the world holiday with all the money saved.

Radio 3 is OK if TV was like that, it would be world class again !!!

Why not close it down now and get a refund, as I did?

@@davidlacey-goodman4711 because my / our licence is in my late mothers name, I don't want my name on their records is the reason. Cheers 🍻

@@peterward3965 You can still cancel under her name. Just send a copy of the death certificate. Far easier to cancel that way also.

Big mistake, why on earth would you engage with these demons at all?

You aren't obliged to tell them anything. Like Bob Marley said don't worry about a thing!!!

It would be the same as registering you don't need a gun licence too.

Why ? (if you don't want to watch the BBC ... Don't watch it and save the License fee)

@@JulieFromYork The BBC is still a propaganda organisation (MI7), controlling the agenda and dictating the tone of the news market in cooperation with Reuters and the few other agencies. Taxes still subsidise their activities and they still poison our minds.

100% correct

Saves money if the energy company were doing reads in the area anyway. Seeing as licencing don't have staff

Data protection breach? I would do an SAR on that regarding the data shared with a 3rd party.

That doesn't sound right. Keep the door shut, energy has nothing to do with tvl anyway

@@susie5668 They are only delivering the letters not trying to sell you a licence but should Capita or the BBC be handing your details to a 3rd party that is not royal mail?

In tune with everything else in the UK nowadays

They are making cuts to save money. So raising the licence fee brings in more money. . Easy really.

Lots of us in my generation listened to pirate radio, relishing the fact that we were technically breaking the law in doing so. Lol.

I wonder what happened to Scott Robson? 🤔

Sales goons.

If a car fits somewhere, its a parking space plus hospital parking is free as well

Could you forward that to Jon? I'd be interested in seeing that.

How would they even know?? What a load of BS

Next you will get a letter saying you're thinking in watching BBC Iplayer.

The population at large could survive without the BBC as a whole. If our ancestors survived until 1922 without the BBC, I'm sure we could do likewise.

They still pay for their tv stations, but it comes from general taxation.

And there is no obligation to

You don't have to pay it.

Fringe benefits does that mean they get a free haircut ?????. 😉😉😉

Its the car Im using out here yeah. I dont think I'd risk sitting on a random Spanish persons' car

…and don’t contact them to cancel

And there is no obligation to tell them what you do or don't do. It's none of their business.

If you pay via direct debit some people are upto six months ahead in payments so sometimes worth that call to cancel and ask for any refund

@@laceandwhisky I see your point but if the goons know you as Legal Occupier then contacting them will reveal your true identity. No contact whatsoever is my way of dealing with them

Consider getting an Apple TV media player. You can get RU-vid on your TV. There are non-live channels that are free to watch, as well as subscription services and pay-per-view.

what

Nope they will fight to get the laws changed to require licences for things that currently dont. Either including streaming, Internet, or a general media tax. Best result would be them sticking around as completely advertiser funded. Tha bbc will hang around some way or another.

I live in rural southern Scotland. As far as TV goes, we effectively have no local news services. We used to have Border Television - from Carlisle. A broadcasting service so crap that when people were bidding millions for services like Granada, no-one at all bid a penny for them. Eventually subsumed into Tyne Tees TV, which essentially meant it disappeared. We've had murders here we'd never have known about if it wasn't for an enthusiastic (commercial) local radio station. We're officially covered by BBC Scotland - but that coverage is such a joke I've had to point my aerial towards Northumberland to get a signal. ITV? Fine if you don't mind 5 minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of viewing. And you can still whistle for any news that doesn't involve Edinburgh or Glasgow. Even streaming is problematic. Where I live, 30 mb/s is the best any provider can offer. The spinning circle on my screen suggests we're not getting even that most of the time. My son lives further out, and has had to resort to satellite Internet despite living one mile away from a 'full fibre' box. My point being that not everyone has a serious choice to avoid broadcast TV. But that broadcast TV is so crap, most people here view the licence fee the same way people used to regard the Window Tax - a charge for services ill--provided..

or maybe not ....@@ruspj

@@ruspj I have no problem with the bbc going fully commercial and not having to pay for a service I've not used for many years.

We've had same letter today with date for visit being 29th March sane as you we are never giving bbc another penny to waste on stupid virtue signalling people or projects

I've had 4 of those types and they never turned up once which peed me off as wanted to give the licence goon a piece of my mind before slamming the door in its sad face.

@@brimcilroy9002 this will be our 3rd visitation letter then on top of them we get the normal letter every couple of months you would think with postage going up and apparently millions of letters sent how can bbc justify cost

They never actually turn up.

SNAP! I got the same!

I legally don't pay for a gun licence...

May be Gary will leave then his pay will be near to 2 million again we could all do his job for that even a 4 year old

Same for me when visit girl friend. She is very selective on what she puts on when i am there as MSM news, trash programmes and general bs gets me irritated. We gave been muting adverts for years, but now even the flashing pictures are driving me nuts and i tune it to a blank channel for a while. Its getting worse, hilleriously laughable in places and becomming more intense as broadcasters get more and more desperate for attention.

@@HowardKlein1958 Agree wholeheartedly. Once you stop watching it a TV in the background in a friend's house or in a pub is like a mosquito in your ear!

Been waiting 10 years for a visit, despite the monthly letter of empty threats.

lol. 😂

Sorry forgot to add this Oxfordshire.

It isn't just the ones on strike. Very few, if any, BBC employees would survive in the real world.

Haha. I say to people my tv works perfectly fine without one.

Hey Larry, tell that guy that his personality is shallow and weak, and if we're you I'd keep your eye on him as he is the sort not only unreliable but not to be trusted as he has all the traits.

It's in a bank called BBC Studio's. Use public funds and licence fee money to purchase companies but accidently put BBC studios as the owner, it was a typo honest!!

In Spain, if you can fit a car there, its a parking space. And yep, no fees at all, been there all week for free