Annoyed with TV

pays for the BBC. It was intended to ensure that the Government, whatever colour, would have no way to say to the BBC "we don't like what you are saying so we will cut your funding" it gives them (the BBC) a certain degree of independance. When you buy a TV from a shop you are usually asked if you already have a license and if you don't they will give you a form. If you rent a TV they will fill the form out for you as it is a requirement of renting a set that you have a license. Students at Uni are covered by their home license so they can have a TV in their accomodation without having an individual license. They also have detector vans. I have no idea how they work and never saw one that I knew of. I do remember seeing posters in the underground which said, approximately "No 7 Such and such street Somwhere does not have a TV license" This I think was done by a simple check of known street addresses using council records against a data base of issued licenses. Apparently the name of the householder was nt known to the authority. It wasn't that expensive I also remember ads saying the BBC comes to you for less than 10P a day per household. My wife says it was 99 pounds a year but you could pay it monthly by direct debit. Incidently even if you only watched satellite on a TV that only tuned into the satellite system you still had to have a license. When I was a kid in Aus we had TV licenses but unlike the UK it went into general revenue rather than direct to the ABC and got cut in the sixties I think before colour TV anyway. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au