Reply With QuoteIt was to fund ad free bbc channels - it is under threat though as politicos don’t like the BBC
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Just read that if you want to watch tv in the UK you have to have a licence?WTF even if you watch it via the internet.
Your country is bonkers I think the people that came up with it should be sent to an island far away never to return.
Do you guys on here really pay to watch crap tv?
I really never heard of this anywhere else maybe more countries have it but the first time I have heard of it.
Thought the BBC was government-owned paid by your taxes as we have similar here called the Abc and SBS.
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It was to fund ad free bbc channels - it is under threat though as politicos don’t like the BBC
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Ireland is similar TV licence, but only if you have a TV... but only that RTE have ads too
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Bbc makes money all over the world as most pay-tv providers pay them to have channels on which in turn the customer pays.Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic
Is it still owned by the government?
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Sure is Oz - the worldwide activities are used as a reason to scrap the fee but anyone over 65 doesn’t have to pay
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The BBC are the biggest doom and gloom, scaremongering brigade that ever walked the earth, even worse than us lot on here after a Leeds defeat.
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Should be renamed " Strictly Come BBC ", as every ruddy programme seems to be infected with it.
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We did that with our criminals a couple of hundtred years ago - sent the ****ers to Austrailia if I remember right....
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How do you think they have paid Linaker millions over the years
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