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It's free. There used to be a radio licence, but it was discontinued once the income from the TV licence was enough. B&W licences are only for B&W TVs and are n
by pmyteh 5y ago
It's free. There used to be a radio licence, but it was discontinued once the income from the TV licence was enough. B&W licences are only for B&W TVs and are now rare.
- lwhi 5y agoIn that case, the moratorium placed on local radio seems even more bizarre.
- Silhouette 5y agoIt seems likely that the BBC itself has limited rights to broadcast the material internationally. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Olympics. There is a lot of other BBC content that isn't freely available outside the UK for similar reasons. However the IOC is well known to be very aggressive in the demands it makes of partners and even host nations so it would be unsurprising if that was the reason here. I don't really understand why they have to switch off entire radio stations though if that's what they're doing, unless so much of the content on those stations is currently about the Olympics that it's not worth continuing to run the rest on its own.
- lwhi 5y agoThis is local radio .. not Olympics coverage.
- Silhouette 5y agoExactly. That's the part that doesn't really make sense to me. It sounds like they're turning off whole stations during the Olympics even though those stations don't necessarily have much if any actual coverage of the Olympics.
- lwhi 5y agoThis is exactly why I asked the original question.