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TV Licensing in Twitter PR Offensive
In the finest traditions of TV Licensing PR harlotdom, it appears the BBC's revenue generation bullies have shot themself in the arse again.TV Licensing's latest media offensive focuses on the number...
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The Single Justice Procedure Notice: Its Application to TV Licence Offences
As many readers will be aware, the Magistrates' Court in England and Wales is typically comprised of a bench of three lay Justices or a single District Judge.The bench can exercise its full authority...
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BBC Releases TV Licensing Search Warrant Statistics
The BBC has inadvertently released TV Licensing search warrant statistics for the whole of the UK.Yesterday the BBC released a copy of the TV Licensing Performance Pack for March 2015 in response to a...
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Capita TV Licensing Awarded £120 Million in Prosecution Costs
Data released by the BBC reveals that TV Licensing operations contractor, Capita Business Services Ltd, is awarded £120m in prosecution costs every year.This information appears in the TV Licensing...
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Man Spared Jail After Smashing Up TV Licensing Goon's Car
A Judge has spared a man from jail after he threatened a pair of TV Licensing goons with a baseball bat and smashed up their car.Christopher Coulson, 26, appeared before Bolton Crown Court yesterday...
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TV Licence Legislation Extended to Cover BBC iPlayer Services
The Government has just laid new legislation before Parliament, which is designed to close the so-called iPlayer loophole.The Communications (Television Licensing)(Amendment) Regulations 2016 will come...
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TV Licensing Abandons 150,000 Customer Telephone Calls
The TV Licensing operations contractor, Capita Business Services Ltd, terminated almost 150,000 customer phone calls in a year without even bothering to answer them.Just as you'd expect, that woeful...
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Isle of Man Scraps Free Over-75 TV Licences
The Isle of Man Government will scrap "free" TV licences for the over-75s later this year.From 1st September 2016 households with at least one over-75 occupier, which are currently eligible for a TV...
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Northern Ireland TV Licensing Search Warrant Execution
New video footage has emerged showing a pair of TV Licensing goons executing a search warrant in Northern Ireland.The two goons, one of whom we recognise as Paul Bale (who we consider a pretty shady...
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BBC Seeks to Mitigate Freedom of Information Blunder
Just as we predicted, the BBC is trying desperately to undo its latest Freedom of Information blunder.Last Tuesday, in response to a Freedom of Information request, the Corporation released a swathe of...
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Only 300 TV Licensing Visiting Officers Cover Whole UK
Figures released by the BBC confirm that there are only around 300 TV Licensing visiting officers covering the entire UK.The TV Licensing Monthly Performance Pack for March 2015, which was...
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Worcester Man Has TV Licence Conviction Quashed
A Worcester man has won a Crown Court appeal against his wrongful conviction for TV licence evasion.Nick Thomas only watches catch-up services on his TV set, which does not legally require a TV...
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BBC Releases TV Licensing Detection Statistics
The BBC relies very heavily on the public perception that a TV detector van is rumbling along every other street on the prowl for TV licence evaders.We know that because that's what the BBC told the...
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Enjoy the Rio 2016 Olympics TV Licence Free
With just over a fortnight until the Rio 2016 Olympics gets underway, we thought it would be a prudent opportunity to remind everyone how to enjoy the coverage without a TV licence.Rio 2016 kicks off,...
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The Role of G4S in TV Licensing Sales
"We called", goes the menacing tone of a TV Licensing calling card.But did they really?The BBC TV Licensing operations contractor, Capita Business Services Ltd, is responsible for the majority of...
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BBC Blasted for Having 5,000 Job Titles
Strangely enough, "Bad News Burier", "Freedom of Information Obfuscator" and "Public Money Pisser" don't currently feature.An article by The Sun (ex-DM) journalist Paul Revoir reveals that the bloated...
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New Style TV Licensing Threatogram: Will You Be In?
TV Licensing has just unveiled its latest letter designed to coerce the occupiers of unlicensed properties - at least 80% of which are correctly unlicensed - into buying a TV licence they probably have...
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Imminent Changes to TV Licence Legislation
According to TV Licensing's PR harlots, only 1-in-5 households is aware of changes to the TV licence system that come into force on 1st September 2016.Of course, given that around 95% of properties are...
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Get Your Violins Out: TV Licence Dodgers Cost the BBC £283m
Or so the BBC says anyway, so take that with a massive pinch of salt.According to the BBC between 6 and 7 percent of households evaded the TV licence fee last year. With the annual cost of a TV licence...
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TV Licensing Fudging the Figures
"We have a 99 percent conviction rate", according to a TV Licensing PR harlot quoted in today's Sunday Express article about the (alleged) £283m cost to the BBC of TV licence evasion.And 99 percent of...
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