Avoid paying for a TV licence.

[kreativebargains]

Apparently 400,000 households do not pay for a TV licence. If you watch on iPlayer you do not need one as a licence is only needed for viewing as the program is broadcast.

Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-iPlayer.html

[moonwitch]

That's right. I don't have a license as I don't watch any live tv.

I e-mailed to cancel my license a few months ago and was sent a refund of all the advance payments I had made.

[damian_steele]

Watching TV via iPlayer is all very well if your viewing habits are limited to the programmes available via that one source. Even adding the programmes available via 4OD, ITV Player, Channel 5's offerings and so on, you still don't get access to the premium channels available from satellite or cable services. Despite the fact that you may not even watch BBC programmes, if you use satellite or cable TV you have to pay the license fee.

The license fee is a system that is out of date and is desperately struggling to catch up to the modern age. Clearly it's failing to do that, but with so much money involved the BBC and their fans do not want the status quo to alter.

[CopperLocker]

Can't you use Roku in the UK?

[bluebedouin]

Can't you use Roku in the UK?

No.We can use Fukubbc though.

[CopperLocker]

no.we can use fukubbc though.

lol

[penny291]

No.We can use Fukubbc though.

lol
I have cable, so I'll just have to carry on paying even though i hardly watch television at all, but my hubby does

[kreativebargains]

lol
I have cable, so I'll just have to carry on paying even though i hardly watch television at all, but my hubby does

There's probably an opening there for a cable company to provide all the stations except BBC as it is broadcast. That way subscribers would not need a licence. it would probably be popular.

[damian_steele]

There's probably an opening there for a cable company to provide all the stations except BBC as it is broadcast. That way subscribers would not need a licence. it would probably be popular.

Except under current law that wouldn't make any difference. The use of a television signal receiver, regardless of whether BBC programmes are watched or not, is enough to require the payment of a TV license.

[kreativebargains]

Except under current law that wouldn't make any difference. The use of a television signal receiver, regardless of whether BBC programmes are watched or not, is enough to require the payment of a TV license.

But if you used cable and under your contract you could not receive BBC programmes as broadcast you could inform them that you do not need a licence.