Bbc Tv License Cases Are 10Th Of All Court Cases

[Fiale]

http://www.cityam.com/article/1377046054/exclusive-tv-licence-offences-responsible-tenth-all-uk-court-cases

What an absolute waste of tax payers money, and court time - paying to have a licence to be allowed to watch TV feels caveman like nowadays. If there should be any fee it should be levied on ISP / TV suppliers (Sky / Virgin) and the money raised distributed to target key objectives (niche programming, education, children etc - not games shows, or EastEnders type programmes).

[Gazred]

We've certainly had the old licence fee debate on here before, i think it has been highlighted that the BBC own/maintain the broadcast infrastructure in the UK, some of the fee certainly goes towards this, that said, why there is no variation on what you pay for and what you get i dont know.

I use the BBC web sites/services more than anything else. I certainly dont listen to any of the 10 national radio stations and only 1 of the 40 or 50 local stations. I watch next to no BBC TV entertainment wise, perhaps 1 or 2 programmes. If anything its sport coverage mainly and thats certainly not what it used to be (bring back Grandstand!)

Dont get me wrong it offers incredible value for money given what is available and the quality is usually second to none, id just like more choice on what i am buying into. Im guessing i use no more than 20% of what they offer yet im not getting the option to only pay £30 a year am i?

[JammyOne]

If there should be any fee it should be levied on ISP / TV suppliers (Sky / Virgin) and the money raised distributed to target key objectives (niche programming, education, children etc - not games shows, or EastEnders type programmes).

No thanks! The internet is free and should remain free, I don't want the cost of my connection to increase. I already pay enough stealth taxes as it is.

P.S The BBC is a sack of poo, and would be better off being abolished.

[marshy]

What makes it worse of course, and the figure I read was 12%, is that those prosecuted now have criminal records as licence fee non-payment is dealt with in the Criminal Court and not the Civil as with, say, utility arrears. Clogging up the courts in this way, and yes I am aware that they attempt to deal with them in bulk, is a scandalous waste of time to prop up an out-of-date viewing model.

The BBC is very good at spending other people's money, as someone once said about Socialist governments. £60m severance pay in the recent scandal, nearly 300 staff paid between £250 000 and £500 000, and these include newsreaders like Sophie Raworth, Kate Silverton, and Sian Williams; do you really need to pay someone that much to read the news? In addition on the BBC they nearly always have two newsreaders on at the same time as they play their childish you start and I'll finish games. Why do they seem to need to work in pairs as the newsreaders on Sky and other channels always seem able to do the job on their own at, presumably, half the cost ?

[nebristolred]

I find that very difficult to believe tbh. Maybe it is true, but you can distort figures to say anything to an extent. A tenth is huge.

[CiderHider]

They will tell you otherwise, but the BBC is state media, I don't know of anyone going to jail for not paying their Sky bill.

The BBC is shit anyway, apart from natural history which is world class.

The journalists are ego driven shit stirring war mongers, just see them now out in Syria and Egypt trying to incite the Americans to go in, basilica calling Obamah a coward, which of course he is, but I want the BBC to report the news not make it.

#******* scum

[nebristolred]

I actually completely disagree. I think the service you get from the BBC for the money you spend is fantastic personally.

[Red-Robbo]

They will tell you otherwise, but the BBC is state media, I don't know of anyone going to jail for not paying their Sky bill.

The BBC is shit anyway, apart from natural history which is world class.

The journalists are ego driven shit stirring war mongers, just see them now out in Syria and Egypt trying to incite the Americans to go in, basilica calling Obamah a coward, which of course he is, but I want the BBC to report the news not make it.

#******* scum

So which BBC journalist called Obama a coward then, Ted? Or are you talking via a lower orifice again.

[Eddie Hitler]

So which BBC journalist called Obama a coward then, Ted? Or are you talking via a lower orifice again.

Well Teddy is paraphrasing there but IMO it's Mark Mardell who is clearly having a go at Obama for not sending in the troops straight away.

I am certain there are plans for the discreet use of special forces to secure chemical weapons - but it is not clear what the trigger would be.

In either case, Mr Obama is likely to insist on going the full UN route to gather the maximum possible support for any action - and that means waiting for the inspector's report on earlier incidents at the very least.

I could be very wrong. The bombers could be in the air by this afternoon.

But at the moment all Mr Obama plans for today is a talk about the cost of college education and "a better deal for the middle classes".

I suspect his red line is very thick indeed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23800031

[Red-Robbo]

Well Teddy is paraphrasing there but IMO it's Mark Mardell who is clearly having a go at Obama for not sending in the troops straight away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23800031

Mardell's the US correspondent, he's not 'out in Syria or Egypt trying to stir it' to use Ted's phrase.

A journalist covering the press conferences of Obama would hardly be doing his job if he didn't ask him about his position on Syria - particularly as Obama had hitherto said the use of chemical weapons would 'cross a red line'.

This doesn't equate to Mardell calling Obama a coward. I've never met him, but I don't expect Mardell has any vested interest in pushing for a Nato intervention in Syria, either.

To me, that piece looks like a media commentator doing his job - trying to figure what the US administration's next move will be. It's a blog post too. Not a story.

[Welcome To The Jungle]

Best website for news, weather, sports etc. I wan watch all the goals from every game on their TV channels and on Iplayer. News channel is good, they let me listen to City when I'm not able to go. Let me listen to live sport when I cant watch on 5 live. I listen to Radio 2 a lot. And without it where would I be able to hear the shipping forecast other than radio 4

[Eco]

Will be interesting to see the next Tory manifesto as I believe many of the more radical new intake of MP's are in favour of privatising the BBC and are frothing at the mouth in anticipation.

[Mr Mosquito]

With the BBC bosses now awarding themselves massive severance payments - as well as trying to embroil us into yet another Middle Eastern war - here's how you can get back at the BBC.......

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=xfHRhXW1hno

[Mr Mosquito]

ABOUT THE TV LICENCE: Although they don't use violence, the BBC effectively operates an extortion racket targeted at every household in the UK. Their method of operation is very simple but has worked successfully in the UK for over 60 years. They rely solely on the inducement of fear. They use a company called Capita to send out threatening letters to UK addresses that do not have a TV Licence. These letters state that their records show that the address doesn't have a TV License and that failure to buy a TV License will result in a £1,000 fine. If after several attempts this fails to worry the occupier into purchasing a TV License, they then send a "TV License Inspector" from their "Enforcement Team" to your address to scare you into compliance and/or to obtain information from you - such as your name and your admission that you are receiving live TV broadcasts on the premises. Once they have this, they can then threaten you with imminent court action.

If they fail to get any compliance from you at all, then they'll continue to send out threatening letters and a "TV License Inspector" will be sent out periodically to remind you of what could happen if you don't buy a TV License. Regardless of whether you have a TV, this will continue until you agree to pay up for a TV License. Once the occupier has paid up, the TV License Inspector receives their commission and the doorstep harassment and threatening letters stop for 12 months. After the 12 months has elapsed, the threatening letters and the doorstep harassment starts again.

This extortion process has kept the BBC in business for the last 60 years and has yielded over £3 billion a year, which is far in excess of what a broadcasting company like Sky survives on through advertising and subscription revenue. The only people who profit from this immoral enterprise are the establishment who benefit from the propaganda that the BBC puts out, and also the greedy executives of the BBC and their enforcement companies who line their pockets with money extorted from the poor, the elderly, and the naïve.

Clearly, Capita's purpose is to simply extort money from as many households as they can on an annual basis by sending goons out to non-licenced addresses to harass the occupants. If you don't have a TV, they hope that by harassing you enough with threatening letters and home visits, you'll be coerced into buying a Licence just to stop the harassment. But of course, what's the point of having a TV licence if you don't have a TV? So of course you'll then buy a TV just to get your money's worth. And as long as you're watching TV, they can manage your perception of reality via the propaganda that pours out of it, especially from the BBC. So it's a win-win situation for them.

But you can turn the tables on them, legally and lawfully... Here are some simple rules to follow when dealing with these people:


HOW TO DEAL WITH TV LICENCE GOONS! (BBC, CAPITA, TV LICENSING)

Never reply to any letters that they send to you. Never provide them with your name or any other personal info, never admit to anything, and never allow them into your home.

Make sure you have a video camera ready to film them when they come to your door. This will enable you to capture evidence of any intimidation or threats that they might try to use.

Make sure you hand them a copy of a "Removal of Implied Right of Access" notice. This will mean that they will be committing a criminal offence of "aggravated trespass" if they come to your door again in the future. Also, print out a copy of a "Fee Schedule" and have it ready to hand to them when they come to your door. This schedule will outline how much you will be charging them each time you are harassed or inconvenienced by them. This schedule has legal standing so you will be able to invoice them each time they send you a letter or visit your home. You can obtain the template letters from various sites, such as: http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org

And finally, never be scared of these racketeers, as they prey on your fear. They have no rights whatsoever to enter your property and they will be trespassing if they continue to come to your door after you have removed their implied right of access. Even if they know that you have a TV, they cannot obtain a warrant to enter your home unless you have admitted that you are receiving live TV broadcasts and that you require a TV Licence. As long as you don't provide them with any information, there is nothing they can do.

How to Turn The tables on BBC TV Licence Goons
http://tvlicencegoons.blogspot.co.uk

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHRhXW1hno

[Red-Robbo]

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This extortion process has kept the BBC in business for the last 60 years and has yielded over £3 billion a year, which is far in excess of what a broadcasting company like Sky survives on through advertising and subscription revenue.

Another load of nonsense copied from a halfwit, I'm afraid. Let's just examine this one line in isolation.

BSkyB annual revenue = £6.97bn BBC licence fee in total = £3.6bn.

These figures are easily checkable.

Of course, the licence fee pays for more than just BBC output (and I'm curious to hear how Eastenders or Homes Under The Hammer are state propaganda vehicles) and apart from stuff like C4 News etc, one of the biggest non-BBC things it pays for is maintaining the transmitter network. Without its income, the 77% of us who rely on this network to watch TV would have no service of any sort at all.

The majority of Europe, include Germany, France and Italy, have licence fee arrangements, and places that don't - such as Russia and Japan, fund TV services from direct taxation.

There are ways to avoid the licence fee, as I detailed in a post some time back, but if you follow the advice of that YouTube clip you'd find yourself in court.

[CiderHider]

So which BBC journalist called Obama a coward then, Ted? Or are you talking via a lower orifice again.

Well Teddy is paraphrasing there but IMO it's Mark Mardell who is clearly having a go at Obama for not sending in the troops straight away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23800031

Jeremy Bowen too, not in so many words, but the way he came across and the words he used was to me goading the US into action.

I may be reading too much into it, and maybe the BBC are right to egg the US and French on, why not? It's the right thing to do, punish Assad for using Chem weps on his people.

I don't fully trust the media, goverment, or the people who inform the gov/media, just only what I can see and verify. People are being killed, the right action to take is to stop it... or not>

Actually glad in some ways Red Ed threw the spanner in, i'm quite worried how things are progressing, or not progressing diplomatically.

[Mr Mosquito]

Another load of nonsense copied from a halfwit, I'm afraid. Let's just examine this one line in isolation.

BSkyB annual revenue = £6.97bn BBC licence fee in total = £3.6bn.

These figures are easily checkable.

Of course, the licence fee pays for more than just BBC output (and I'm curious to hear how Eastenders or Homes Under The Hammer are state propaganda vehicles) and apart from stuff like C4 News etc, one of the biggest non-BBC things it pays for is maintaining the transmitter network. Without its income, the 77% of us who rely on this network to watch TV would have no service of any sort at all.

The majority of Europe, include Germany, France and Italy, have licence fee arrangements, and places that don't - such as Russia and Japan, fund TV services from direct taxation.

There are ways to avoid the licence fee, as I detailed in a post some time back, but if you follow the advice of that YouTube clip you'd find yourself in court.

........to be forthright and honest with you, that YouTube video is right up my street and better than anything I've seen on TV. Even better is the follow up YouTube video......"police at my door after TV License man come to check on my license.".......quality .........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA

[Red-Robbo]

Jeremy Bowen too, not in so many words, but the way he came across and the words he used was to me goading the US into action.

When? Bowen's a self-professed 'Arabist' who has been twice censured by the BBC Trust for anti-Israel bias. He's a Cardiff City fan and has weird sideburns, but I don't see much else wrong with his reportage.

[Red-Robbo]

........to be forthright and honest with you, that YouTube video is right up my street and better than anything I've seen on TV. Even better is the follow up YouTube video......"police at my door after TV License man come to check on my license.".......quality .........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA

What a tight Northern ****! 'Matter of principle' my arse. He just doesn't want to pay £2 a week. She should've tasered him!

[CiderHider]

When? Bowen's a self-professed 'Arabist' who has been twice censured by the BBC Trust for anti-Israel bias. He's a Cardiff City fan and has weird sideburns, but I don't see much else wrong with his reportage.

Well a self professed Arabist would like US intervention, from a Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait point of view. And this is where the confusion is I think, Syria is arguably Persian, not an Arab state.

It is impossible to be objective as a war correspondent, we want their personal views, but they are not defence lawyers, they are not obliged to defend Assad. Bowen clearly wants forces in Syria to stop the massacre, I like Bowen a lot btw and have massive respect for those guys, but they are only human and no human who is not psychotic would want to respond to chem wep attacks.

[Mr Mosquito]

What a tight Northern ****! 'Matter of principle' my arse. He just doesn't want to pay £2 a week. She should've tasered him!

....tight upper middle class BBC London Metropilitan elitists getting £1,000,000 in BBC severance pay at beleaguered BBC licence fee payers' expense.

[Mr Mosquito]

When? Bowen's a self-professed 'Arabist' who has been twice censured by the BBC Trust for anti-Israel bias. He's a Cardiff City fan and has weird sideburns, but I don't see much else wrong with his reportage.

The BBC TV License Extortion Racket Exposed........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9uq5X3OGjU

[Mr Mosquito]

http://www.cityam.com/article/1377046054/exclusive-tv-licence-offences-responsible-tenth-all-uk-court-cases

What an absolute waste of tax payers money, and court time - paying to have a licence to be allowed to watch TV feels caveman like nowadays. If there should be any fee it should be levied on ISP / TV suppliers (Sky / Virgin) and the money raised distributed to target key objectives (niche programming, education, children etc - not games shows, or EastEnders type programmes).

Here's what our BBC licence fees are helping to pay for...............

The BBC's Director of Human Resources has admitted that evidence she gave to Parliament was not entirely accurate.

The BBC has been under pressure to explain why it paid £25m of licence fee payers' money to 150 outgoing managers, which in a quarter of cases exceeded their contractual entitlement. A damning National Audit Office report revealed the following payments had been made:

• £680,400 to former Chief Operating Officer Caroline Thomson, who left the BBC in 2011.
• £949,000 to former Deputy Director-General Mark Byford, who left the BBC in 2011.
• £1,031,000 to former CEO of BBC Worldwide John Smith, who left the BBC in 2011. Mr Smith later returned £205,000.
• £511,500 to former Director-General George Entwistle, who left the BBC in 2012. Mr Entwistle, who was employed in various BBC roles for 24 years, resigned from the role of Director-General after only 54 days.
• £375,000 to former Head of BBC Archives Roly Keating, who left the BBC in 2012. Mr Keating later returned the full amount.
• £395,000 to former Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences Sharon Baylay, who left the BBC in 2011.

Lucy Adams, who has occupied the top HR role for the last 5 years, was one of a number of BBC bosses summoned to appear before the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on 10th July 2013. The Committee, chaired by straight-talking Labour MP Margaret Hodge, branded the BBC's handling of these payments "an outrageous waste of licence fee payers' money".

Lucy Adams giving evidence to the PAC on 10th July 2013.

Ms Adams, who will leave the BBC in October, was accused of a dereliction of duty for her role in authorising the pay-offs. Seemingly trying to distance herself from the flak, Ms Adams denied seeing an October 2010 memo outlining the proposed severance deals.

Source: http://tv-licensing.blogspot.co.uk/

[Byrd9999]

I don't watch much TV, but imo the UK has the best TV service in the world. Try European or American TV for a while, it's mind-numbing. Here in the UK we get science documentaries, history shows with in-depth analysis by competent knowledgeable people, nature shows, incredible stuff.

Check out the current Simon Schama doc on Judaism, anything presented by Howard Goodall, The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the recent World Music documentary, even QI or University Challenge. You don't get this anywhere else. And for £140 or whatever it is at the moment? Bargain.

[Red-Robbo]

Well a self professed Arabist would like US intervention, from a Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait point of view. And this is where the confusion is I think, Syria is arguably Persian, not an Arab state.

It is impossible to be objective as a war correspondent, we want their personal views, but they are not defence lawyers, they are not obliged to defend Assad. Bowen clearly wants forces in Syria to stop the massacre, I like Bowen a lot btw and have massive respect for those guys, but they are only human and no human who is not psychotic would want to respond to chem wep attacks.

Well not really ted. Syria, lest we forget, was the founding father of the United Arab Republic - an unsuccessful political union between Syria and Egypt. a proportion of its population may be Shia Muslims, but that is common across the Arabian peninsula. There are fewer Shia in syria than in lebanon - or Saudi Arabia.

I think you may be reading things into Bowen's reports that are not intended. I have no idea what he thinks about Syria. in the reports i've seen it is impossible to tell.

[Red-Robbo]

....tight upper middle class BBC London Metropilitan elitists getting £1,000,000 in BBC severance pay at beleaguered BBC licence fee payers' expense.

Well no-one got a million quid Gobbers, but this, rather than the principle of a licence fee for public service broadcasting, is what you should be getting worked up about. Certainly the staff I know at the Beeb, earning less than King's ransoms for difficult, demanding work over extremely unsocial hours, are very angry at the snouts in the trough attitude of senior managers.

Lucy Adams - a horrendous woman by all accounts - says she needed to pay over-the-odds severance pay to hurry out 150 senior managers at the corporation. as there still seems to be scores of senior managers there, what on earth can those 150 departing bigwigs have done? Certainly, the Beeb seems to have continued to function without them. In the circs, they seem lucky to have got any sort of severance pay at all for their non-jobs and certainly don't deserve an unwarranted bonus for being totally dispensable.

I think the BBC is a great institution, but it's yet to be seen if Tony Hall can genuinely take it by the throat and make the massive savings that can be made by reforming it and dispensing with the bits if output that duplicate what is available elsewhere.

I think there would be a lot less opposition to the licence fee if it was seen as VFM.

[Mr Mosquito]

Well no-one got a million quid Gobbers, but this, rather than the principle of a licence fee for public service broadcasting, is what you should be getting worked up about. Certainly the staff I know at the Beeb, earning less than King's ransoms for difficult, demanding work over extremely unsocial hours, are very angry at the snouts in the trough attitude of senior managers.

Lucy Adams - a horrendous woman by all accounts - says she needed to pay over-the-odds severance pay to hurry out 150 senior managers at the corporation. as there still seems to be scores of senior managers there, what on earth can those 150 departing bigwigs have done? Certainly, the Beeb seems to have continued to function without them. In the circs, they seem lucky to have got any sort of severance pay at all for their non-jobs and certainly don't deserve an unwarranted bonus for being totally dispensable.

I think the BBC is a great institution, but it's yet to be seen if Tony Hall can genuinely take it by the throat and make the massive savings that can be made by reforming it and dispensing with the bits if output that duplicate what is available elsewhere.

I think there would be a lot less opposition to the licence fee if it was seen as VFM.

"Ten Good Reasons to CANCEL Your TV LICENCE" by BanTheBBC. Interesting that it's mentioned in one of the reasons that the BBC take payments from the hopelessly corrupt and criminal led European Union project to put the EU in a good light - now I've known that for years..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGzqJf8yQI

[Cunnyfunt]

Docs like Africa, Frozen planet etc are well worth the fee, sadly they are few and far between. 5 live is ok as well.

[Red-Robbo]

"Ten Good Reasons to CANCEL Your TV LICENCE" by BanTheBBC. Interesting that it's mentioned in one of the reasons that the BBC take payments from the hopelessly corrupt and criminal led European Union project to put the EU in a good light - now I've known that for years..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGzqJf8yQI

The unfocused ramblings of a nutter.

[nebristolred]

All this BBC propaganda stuff really is a load of bollocks.