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British TV license = no ads. Cable/satellite = I'm paying $40 a month and getting ads interrupting what I'm watching every 5 minutes. Also, have you seen Briti
by dkulchenko 14y ago
British TV license = no ads. Cable/satellite = I'm paying $40 a month and getting ads interrupting what I'm watching every 5 minutes.
Also, have you seen British television? The quality of the original programming far surpasses most of the networks we have in the U.S., and is easily on par with premium channels like HBO.
- DanBC 14y ago> British TV license = no ads. The British TV licence pays for BBC TV, and BBC Radio, (Now including the World Service, which used to be funded from the Foreign Office department of government) and the BBC Website stuff. It's amazing. There are some quirks, though. Buying the licence allows you to watch or record tv broadcasts. So, it's possible for a person to never ever use any BBC services but still need a TV Licence. And it's also possible for a person to listen to BBC Radio all day every day, and to heavily use the website, and to watch BBC programmes using the catch up service, but not need to buy a licence. And a lot of people (mostly women) were in prison because they did not pay the fines they got for not having a tv licence. Prison's probably not the right solution for that problem.