Rolf Harris Faces Further Child Sex Charges
The disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris is to be charged with seven further counts of indecent assault.The alleged offences, which are said to have taken place between 1971 and 2004, relate to seven...
View ArticleReader Letter: TV Licence Requirements During House Clearance
In today's post we respond to an email received from one of our readers.Ken is currently in the process of clearing his recently deceased mother's house and wonders about the legalities of receiving TV...
View ArticleBBC Boss Cohen Racks Up £3,850 Luxury Hollywood Hotel Bill
Documents recently published by the BBC reveal that former Director of Television, Danny Cohen, racked up a massive £3,850 hotel bill during a visit to Hollywood last May.Cohen, who quit the BBC at the...
View ArticleDame Janet Smith Review Findings Delivered to BBC
The long awaited Dame Janet Smith Review findings will be published by the end of the month.The final report, which explores the BBC's culture and practices at the time of the Savile and Hall sex abuse...
View ArticleBBC Plans to Axe Television and Radio Divisions
Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC, is set to unveil radicals plans to abolish the broadcaster's television and radio divisions.The new organisation of the BBC is still not clear, but it is...
View ArticleBBC Three Adopts Online Only Format
BBC Three has been broadcast for the final time via the conventional airwaves.From tonight the channel, which has a regular following of around a million viewers, will only be available online. That...
View ArticleYorkshire TV Licensing Goon
Yorkshire.Famed for beautiful rolling countryside, yappy little dogs, overpriced tea rooms and people that can't pronounce the letter "H" correctly - particularly those hailing from Alifax and...
View ArticleBBC Sex Inquiry Branded a Farce After Delay of Three Years to Interview Key...
The Dame Janet Smith Review into the BBC's history of sex abuse took three years to interview a key witness.Karin Ward featured prominently in the ITV documentary "Exposure - The Other Side of Jimmy...
View ArticleTV Licensing Harassing the Dead and Bereaved
Not many words to go with this one, as the picture really does paint a thousand of them.The Twitter conversation shown above happened just a few moments ago. It's not the first time we've seen a...
View ArticleTony Blackburn Dismissed by BBC
Veteran BBC presenter Tony Blackburn has been dismissed over inconsistencies in his evidence to the Dame Janet Smith Review.Blackburn, 73, was interviewed by the Review team about allegations he was...
View ArticleTV Licensing Customer Satisfaction Data
In April 2014, after typical BBC prevarication, the most recent version of the TV Licensing operations contract was published online for public scrutiny.As the Information Commissioner's Office had...
View ArticleTony Blackburn Versus Tony Hall: Let Battle Commence
Recently dismissed BBC presenter Tony Blackburn has vowed to take legal action against the Director General, Tony Hall.Blackburn, who was jettisoned by the BBC after almost half a century on the...
View ArticleCulture Secretary Pledges to Close BBC iPlayer Loophole
The Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale MP, has pledged to close the so-called 'iPlayer loophole', which currently allows TV viewers to enjoy on-demand content without a valid TV licence.The BBC...
View ArticleOpinion: Closing the BBC iPlayer Loophole
The Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale MP, has signalled that legislation to close the so-called BBC iPlayer loophole could be on the statute books before the summer Parliamentary recess.Before going...
View ArticleThe BBC Contorts Scottish Geography
The BBC is attempting to make Scotland look less significant in the eyes of its viewers.That's the opinion of Paul Monaghan, SNP Member of Parliament for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross...
View ArticleDon't Let TV Licensing Spoil Your Mother's Day
Today, the fourth Sunday of Lent, is traditionally the time of year when people give thanks for all the marvellous things their mothers do throughout the year.In common with every other Sunday, it's a...
View ArticleBBC's The One Show in Schoolgirl Exposure Clanger
Tonight's BBC The One Show made an embarrassing blunder, when it inadvertently broadcast an image appearing to show a schoolgirl's underwear.The girl, shown playing with a mobile phone, appeared in a...
View ArticleTV Licensing Court Presenter Faces Awkward Questions
But despite being a semi-professional gobshite, Capita spinmeister Chris Christiou didn't have much to say when he was posed a few simple questions about his immoral employment earlier today.Christiou...
View ArticleCourt Report: TV Licensing at Grantham Magistrates' Court
A member of the TV Licence Resistance forums, RaymondCox, has described his experiences of observing TV Licensing in action at Grantham Magistrates' Court on 10th March 2016.As mentioned in our earlier...
View ArticleReckless BBC Newsgathering Endangers Public
The BBC has been accused of endangering public safety, after a news helicopter was observed flying dangerously close to both the ground and railway in the Cambridgeshire countryside.A Freedom of...
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