All posts by Briantist
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Mike: If you can no longer use Freeview then AT800 have a budget of about £500 to replace your equipment and provide you with Freesat.They will sort that out for you once you report back that the filter doesn't work.The "money grabbing parasites" have set aside £150m to deal with problems such as yours.
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Andy Ell: According to the report, the BBC is "reaching 96% of the population on a weekly basis".The whole point of the replacement system is that it isn't for TV. It's for what it already pays for: TV, radio and online.It won't be called a "TV Licence", but a "household broadcasting levy". See, no TV mention, it doesn't matter if you don't have one.
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Thomas: "why should I have to pay for something that I do not use or want? "It's called "government".
Living in a civil society, we all have to pay for things we don't use. Most people don't have school age children, but everyone pays for schools, for example.Given that 96% of the population use BBC services every week, you would be a serious oddity if you were one of the 4%.
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ric tay: "bloated BBC management and production"
Of course. The best way to get an organization to spend 3 billion quid wizely is to get rid of the management .
That ALWAYS works.
And, of course the BBC does NOTHING but produce TV and radio programmes. That can EASILY be done without production.
I'm not sure you're thinking things though.
"could not be sponsored by commercial advertisers"Are you sure that ITV would want that? Given that would take away ALL of the existing commercial broadcasters income at a stroke. See TV Licence decriminalization: just how much is it going to cost you? for the figures.
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MikeB: Thanks for that. I'm going to look into the "how it might work" details of each of the three alternative systems shortly.I have to say that I am have - at this time - a bit more faith in the future. For one thing, I have met and spoken to Mr Wittingale - Scrap TV Poll Tax and some DRM - top Tory - and I get the impression that he had the ability to be both dogmatic and practicable.Remember when he said the TV Licence was a "poll tax", he then said that "BBC to be funded from general taxation". Not that the BBC should be privatized or scrapped.Other thing is that the government majority is TINY now, and unlike the John Major days the Conservative Party is in a tiny minority in the House of Lords. Yes, they can use the Parliament Act to shove one or two things though, but the Salisbury Convention is only a verbal agreement between a Tory peer and a Labour on back in the 1940s.It's going to be very, very hard for this government to make new laws. Yes, they can do all the executive stuff they like, but passing new laws will be hard.
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Ian Edge: That option was covered here - "Funding method: Tax on TV subscriptions" - BBC 2017: Tell me about the 16 options to collect the BBC 4 billion quid a year?
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I note with interest that the 0.68% figure is very, very close to the 0.61% I came up with for "Funding method: General taxation" - BBC 2017: Tell me about the 16 options to collect the BBC 4 billion quid a year?
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Rob: No, the Testcard How do I get a test card with Freeview - is only done on Freeview.
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Monday 30 March 2015 4:55PM
Paul Murphy: Thanks for your post.I've had a good look and it seem to be at one of those knife-edge positions.Sometimes this happens when the postcode (all of it) resolves to a large area. In a city, a postcode can sometimes refer to just one building, or just a few. In rural areas the postcode can be quite a physically large area.You are right, if you use the GPS option on your phone you would get the "right" answer, but the postcode isn't accurate enough.