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BBC iPlayer Legislation Flaws
Over the last couple of days we have been heartened to see that the national media has finally cottoned on to a fact we have stated since day zero - new legislation intended to prevent unlicensed use...
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TV Licensing Origami
In 2014 TV Licensing took the radical step of ditching paper TV licences for customers renewing automatically via Direct Debit.The move, we were told at the time, would save about £5m in costs until...
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TV Licensing Target Students Using Orwellian Propaganda
TV Licensing is currently circulating these leaflets to student households.In a throwback to George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the message seems to be that Big Brother is always...
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TV Licensing Dealer Notification: An Important Reminder
Yesterday a Facebook reader got in touch with us to complain that he was refused the sale of a TV set when he declined to give his details for TV Licensing purposes.According to him, the incident...
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Opinion: Lazy Scheduling of BBC News Programmes
Deviating from normal service slightly today to have a bit of a moan about the increasingly common phenomenon of BBC news and current affairs programmes being simulcast across more than one BBC...
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TV Licence Evasion: A Reminder Of The Rudd Defence
The House of Lords Appeal of Jeffrey Rudd vs. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is a very significant piece of case law for anyone accused of TV licence evasion.The potency of the Rudd...
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TV Licence Evasion: Not Guilty Trial Procedure
It is only by pleading not guilty that a person accused of TV licence evasion can put TV Licensing's evidence to the test.Quite often, in our experience, TV Licensing's evidence will be so weak, flawed...
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Reader Letter: TV Licensing Called... But Didn't!
In today's post we respond to an email received from one of our readers.Lancastrian Craig, a stay at home Dad, was surprised to get a TV Licensing calling card through the door, even though he was at...
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BBC Distorts Taxi Expense Figures
BBC extravagance is making the headlines again today, with news that the Corporation spent around £1.5m on taxi fares in the last three financial years.In its response to a Freedom of Information...
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Student TV Licence Reminder
As sure as night follows day, TV Licensing fills the September newspapers with articles targeting students at the start of the university year.We've written a fair bit on this previously (see here and...
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Pisshead TV Licensing Goon Drink Drive Ban
A Belfast-based TV Licensing goon has been banned from driving after being caught behind the wheel whilst unfit through drink.John Marcus Rodgers, 39, shown above enjoying a pint in the lounge of TV...
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TV Licensing Distorts Enforcement Statistics
To paraphrase former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "there are three types of TV Licensing lies - lies, damned lies and statistics".There is a buzz around the web at the moment about TV...
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TV Licensing on Twitter Revisited
It has been a good couple of years since we performed our last analysis of TV Licensing's Twitter activity.TV Licensing regularly fills the newspapers with the stories it wants people to see, but it is...
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Bishop Bashes BBC Over Savile Sex Scandal
The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised the BBC over its handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby said the broadcaster had not shown the...
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TV Licensing: Pay Your Own Postage
In the latest round of BBC cost cutting, TV Licensing has sent letters to hundreds of customers without bothering to pay the postage.Last month Twitter was awash with complaints that the recipients had...
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Daily Mail Tightens Screws on TV Licensing
The Daily Mail has today published another exposé into the horrific tactics employed by the BBC's revenue generation bullies, TV Licensing.The TV Licensing operations contractor, Capita Business...
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BBC in Ofcom Transparency Battle
The BBC is in a stand-off with Ofcom over the publication of programme complaint statistics.The BBC's most recent Royal Charter commenced on 1st January 2017. One of the conditions of the Charter was...
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TV Licence Petition Debate
More than 125,000 people have signed a petition on the UK Parliament website calling for the abolition of the BBC TV licence.Petitions that gather more than 100,000 signatures are debated in...
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TV Licence Fee Statistics
The House of Commons Library has just published a very interesting briefing paper on the subject of the TV licence fee.The paper provides statistics on the TV licence fee and general viewing trends.It...
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Culture Secretary Targeted by TV Licensing
The Culture Secretary is under investigation for not having a valid TV licence.TV Licensing sent a threatogram to the Rt. Hon. Karen Bradley MP after realising there was no TV licence registered to her...
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