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I don't watch TV and when single, in the face of some rudeness and disbelief from the horrible licensing authorities, did not have nor require a licence. The B
by DamonHD 9y ago
I don't watch TV and when single, in the face of some rudeness and disbelief from the horrible licensing authorities, did not have nor require a licence.
The BBC World Service has always been a Foreign-Office paid-for propaganda arm, but the rest not so.
I don't believe the UK government owns the BBC: but please show me otherwise.
There are explicitly state-controlled entities in other countries, with an editorial line deferential to the state.
No UK government ever likes the BBC's line much, whatever the government's political colour, which I regard as a GoodThing(TM).
- dogma1138 9y agoBBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Seriously BBC is as state owned as it gets in the west, to be more specific it’s a statutory corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation BBC world is actually not tied directly to the British government. And how exactly have you managed to avoid paying a license since any TV monitor and today a device capable of running iPlayer counts for the license.
- DamonHD 9y agoBefore I had a family (which was some time ago) I did not watch TV nor own a TV. And iPlayer and its like were not dreamt of, still less a twinkle in the eye of a TV licence law. (I ran one of the first UK ISPs around that time.) I was not required to pay a licence fee and so did not. My family does watch TV and so we do have a licence. I still don't watch TV.