BBC Millionaire Lineker Threatened by TV Licensing
TV personality and former sportsman Gary Lineker has revealed that he receives threatograms from TV Licensing, despite coining in the best part of £2 million from the BBC every year.Speaking to The...
View ArticleTV Licensing Threatens Elderly Mother A Year After Her Death
No surprises either that the BBC's scummy revenue generation bullies, TV Licensing, had previously been notified of the elderly lady's passing.It's a story we hear all too regularly, so bear that in...
View ArticleTV Licensing Making the News
Apologies to readers for our recent blogging hiatus, but there hasn't really been anything newsworthy about TV Licensing recently.Two stories that are currently doing the rounds:1. The continuing TV...
View ArticleBBC Announces Changes to Over-75 TV Licence Eligibility
After almost four years of umming and ahing, toing and froing the BBC has finally decided the fate of the over-75 TV licence.From June 2020 the "free" TV licence, which is currently provided to every...
View ArticleFury and Condemnation of BBC Over-75 TV Licence Shake Up
The BBC has sparked fury with its announcement yesterday that it is to reduce eligibility for the over-75 TV licence.With effect from June 2020 the "free" TV licence, which is currently provided to...
View ArticleOpinion: Time to Let the BBC Survive on its Own Commercial Merits
The BBC's recent announcement that it is tightening the eligibility criteria for the over-75 TV licence has reignited debate about whether the TV licence should be abolished altogether.Many moons ago,...
View ArticleTV Licensing Court Update
A short update today on the manner in which TV Licensing takes cases to court.Since the introduction of the Single Justice Procedure all TV Licensing cases are channelled down that route initially. If...
View ArticleTV Licensing Bullies Target Blind Carlisle Man
TV Licensing continues to send threatening letters to a blind Carlisle man, despite having been told numerous times about his medical inability to watch TV programmes.It's an all too familiar story,...
View ArticleBBC On Collision Course With Over-75 Viewers
The BBC is on a direct collision course with over-75 viewers, many of whom will lose their entitlement to a "free" TV licence from mid-2020.Sticking my head above the parapet here, but my own...
View ArticleHow Can TV Licensing Prove You Are Watching TV?
How can TV Licensing prove you are watching TV? It's an age old question and one we hear on a fairly regular basis.The honest answer, which TV Licensing would prefer people didn't know, is "with great...
View ArticleAre Politicians Entitled to a Free TV Licence?
For whatever reason this question - are politicians entitled to a free TV licence? - seems to have cropped up quite a lot recently.It's recent popularity is undoubtedly related to the BBC's recent...
View ArticleBBC Wimbledon Overkill
As regular viewers may already have noticed, the BBC's sports offering is absolutely woeful.It is a damning indictment of how pathetic BBC Sport actually is that The Championships, Wimbledon -...
View ArticleJudicial Review Sought Over BBC Bias
A crowdfunding group is only a few thousands pounds away from reaching the total needed to mount a judicial review into BBC bias.The "Help Us Stop BBC Bias" group, is headed by former BBC producer and...
View ArticleTV Licensing Unfairly Targeting Women
Who says that you can't reheat a soufflé?News from The Times (subscription) that the BBC's militant revenue generation arm, TV Licensing, is unfairly targeting women is hardly new and hardly a surprise...
View ArticleTV Licensing Red Hand Delivered Threatogram
There is a new TV Licensing threatogram doing the rounds.The glossy red card, shown in the image above, bears laser printed "handwriting" claiming that it was hand delivered. It was hand delivered - by...
View ArticleTV Licensing "Outreach Team" to Visit Over-75 Licence Holders
The BBC has confirmed that TV Licensing will visit the properties of over-75 TV licence holders to confirm their eligibility for the concession.Pensioners who claim an over-75 TV licence but fail to...
View ArticleBritBox Savaged: Why Pay £6 A Month for BBC Repeats, When BBC Television...
BritBox, already dubbed Shitbox, is set to launch in the Autumn of 2019.For the princely sum of £5.99 a month viewer can enjoy a selection of the BBC and ITV's most dated programming at the push of a...
View ArticleBBC in Libel Row Over Biodegradable Plastics
The BBC is facing libel action after criticising the specialist product of a plastics manufacturer.Symphony Environmental Technologies Ltd, which specialises in manufacturing additives said to make...
View ArticleTV Licensing Exploiting Tradespeople
We have just been made aware of an incident where a TV Licensing goon extracted information from a courier delivering a package to the property they were visiting.When questioned by the TV Licensing...
View ArticleBBC Squanders £300k on Unused Fares and Hotel Bookings
The BBC is again under fire for the relentless way it pisses TV licence fee payers' money against a wall.Figures obtained by the Sunday Express show that over the last 4 years the national broadcaster...
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