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TV Licensing Identification
It's a standing joke that one of the easiest ways of recognising a TV Licensing goon is that they'll probably deny being one.A couple of examples immediately spring to mind - the thus far unidentified...
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BBC Three to Vanish from Airwaves
The BBC Trust has formally approved proposals to move BBC Three online.The BBC first announced plans to axe the broadcast channel in early 2014. At the time the BBC claimed the move would result in an...
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BBC Airbrushes Savile and Travis from Top Of The Pops Repeats
The BBC will drop almost a third of episodes when it broadcasts a repeat series of Top Of The Pops next year.Seventeen episodes of the hit music show will be pulled from the 1981 series re-run, out of...
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Jimmy Savile: Damning BBC Report Kept on Ice
Disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted a teenager live on Top Of The Pops, right under the noses of his BBC bosses.Sylvia Edwards, who had just recently turned 18, was a member of the...
View ArticleTV Licensing Blog Quiz of the Year 2015
As another year of TV Licensing bashing draws to a close, it seems like the ideal time to publish our annual quiz of the year.All of the answers have been published in the TV Licensing Blog since 1st...
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Abandonment of Controversial Criminal Courts Charge
The Justice Secretary has announced the abandonment of the controversial Criminal Courts Charge less than a year after it was introduced by his predecessor.Addressing the Magistrates' Association at...
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BBC's Yentob Jumps Before Push
Television executive turned presenter Alan Yentob has resigned from his role as BBC Creative Director.Yentob, who earned £183k for his BBC executive role, recently attracted negative publicity over his...
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Disgraced BBC Sex Predator Due for Release
A former BBC television and radio presenter convicted of numerous sex crimes against children is set to be released from prison before Christmas.In April 2013 Stuart Hall, the face of 1970s game show...
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TV Licensing Withdraws Dubious Case Against Innocent Mother
We're delighted to learn of yet another of TV Licensing's more dubious prosecutions unravelling in court.You can read the full circumstances of the case on the TV Licence Resistance forums. Briefly,...
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BBC Pervert Travis Loses Indecent Assault Appeal
Dave Lee Travis has failed in a bid to overturn his indecent assault conviction.The former BBC Radio 1 DJ was convicted last year of indecently assaulting a young researcher behind the scenes of the...
View ArticleTV Licence Evasion: A Few Notes on Liability
During one of our regular trawls of cyberspace we recently came across an interesting conversation on Twitter.Briefly, a student posted about their frustration at receiving yet another TV Licensing...
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TV Licensing Pulls Plug on Dubious Prosecution
TV Licensing has decided to withdraw another TV licence evasion charge brought in questionable circumstances.Forget any misguided notion of TV Licensing festive benevolence. In our opinion, it has...
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BBC Spends £10m on Savile Probe, Yet Continues to Hide Key Findings
Figures obtained by The Sun on Sunday indicate that the BBC has spent just shy of £10m on inquiries triggered by the Jimmy Savile sex scandal.An article in today's newspaper, written by Savile-exposing...
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TV Licensing: Bullying the Bereaved
Not for the first time - and undoubtedly not for the last - the BBC's militant revenue generation arm, TV Licensing, stands accused of bullying the bereaved.Having been tipped off about TV Licensing's...
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TV Licensing: Deconstructing the New 95 Percent Threatogram
Over recent weeks TV Licensing has been circulating a new style of threatogram to unlicensed properties.The letter, which carries the headline statistic that "95% of UK properties are correctly...
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Don't Get Christmas Stuffed by TV Licensing
A repost of last year's TV Licensing Blog Christmas message:It is a depressing fact of modern life that many families will spend the Christmas period overindulging in food, drink and repeat TV...
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BBC Explores Options to Cut Over-75 TV Licence Bill
The BBC has hired an economic consultancy to explore options to cut the over-75 TV licence bill.Frontier Economics, which is chaired by former top civil servant (Lord) Gus O'Donnell, has been tasked by...
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TV Licensing Investigations
"Your details will be passed to our Enforcement Division for investigation. Enforcement Officers are authorised to visit your property at any time of the day", is typical of the menacing tone of TV...
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Scottish TV Licensing Goon Roger
Like that annoying turd that refuses to flush, Capita TV Licensing goon Roger is back for his third YouTube adventure.Having seen Roger previously we know that he is fully acquainted with TV Licensing...
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Black & White TV Licence Statistics
Bang on cue the slimy PR harlots at TV Licensing have just released their latest deluge of propaganda about the number of monochrome (black & white) TV licences still in force.Only a couple of...
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