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TV Licensing Milestone for Retired Bank Manager
A retired bank manager from Devon has just chalked up his one-hundredth TV Licensing threatogram, despite having ditched his TV set more than two decades ago.It was 1997 when Derek Cheesebrough first...
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TV Licensing Blog Search Engine Referrals
It has been a long time since we last considered the search engine queries sending visitors towards the TV Licensing Blog.As visitors are clearly interested, we thought we'd take the opportunity to...
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Free TV Licence Scam Email
"Limited time offer: 1 x 12 months of TV licence for 0.00 GBP."Your TV licence expired on [date]. Considering you have always payed (sic) your TV licence on time, we decided to offer you a whole new...
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TV Licensing Asks Court to Overturn Conviction of Manx Woman it Lied to
TV Licensing has asked Isle of Man Magistrates to overturn the conviction of a woman it lied to.Simone King, 28, of Princes Street in Douglas, was convicted of TV licence evasion at the Island's...
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TV Licensing Blows £7.8 Million on Threatogram Postage Costs
TV Licensing spent almost £7.8 million on the postage costs of reminder letters in the last financial year.In a Freedom of Information response to the TV Licensing Blog, the BBC confirmed that it...
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TV Licensing Laid Bare Updated
We have just updated TV Licensing Laid Bare.You can download the latest version from the Free Book page.TV Licensing Laid Bare is your complete guide to TV licence rules, regulations, loopholes and...
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TV Licensing Announces Rugby World Cup Blitz on Pubs
In its gruffest voice TV Licensing has vowed to crack down on evil publicans committing the heinous crime of allowing customers to watch the Rugby World Cup without a valid TV licence.Legally speaking...
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Humphrys' Parting Shot on Retirement from BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
The BBC's John Humphrys has hung up his microphone for the final time after presenting Radio 4's flagship Today programme for the last 32 years.Despite earning £600,000 and receiving glowing tributes...
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Age UK Warns of Surge in TV Licensing Fraudsters
A leading UK old people's charity has warned that the BBC's recent decision to tighten the eligibility criteria for over-75 TV licences will lead to a surge in fraud.Research by Age UK suggests there...
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BBC Journalist Sweeney Leaves Under Tommy Robinson Shadow
The BBC's John Sweeney has quit after seventeen years at the Corporation.Sweeney regularly reported on current affairs programmes including Panorama and Newsnight.His final Panorama assignment, which...
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Fresh Calls to Replace BBC TV Licence with Subscription Model
An influential think tank has made fresh calls for the replacement of the BBC TV licence fee with a subscription model.New Vision - Transforming the BBC into a Subscriber-Owned Mutual, written by the...
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Woman Replies to TV Licensing Threatograms From the Grave
A man impersonated his dead mother to make it seem as if she had responded to TV Licensing threatograms from the grave.Despite being under no legal obligation to assist TV Licensing, David Brewis got...
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Ofcom: Young Viewers Abandoning the BBC in Droves
Less than half of 16 to 24 year olds admitted to watching BBC television channels in the past week, according to research conducted by broadcast regulator Ofcom.The average time young people are...
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The Tab: Promoting Inaccurate TV Licensing Information
One of the UK's leading youth news sites recently published an article about the TV licence and Netflix.According to yesterday's article on The Tab: "In short, no. You don't need to have a TV licence...
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BBC Data Breach in Samira Ahmed Employment Tribunal
The BBC has been accused of breaching data protection rules by revealing the names of 120 female employees who have pursued gender pay complaints.The leak came to light during an Employment Tribunal...
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General Election 2019: BBC and TV Licensing Political Party Policies
It can't have escaped anyone's notice that the nation faces a very important decision in the next few days.Will it by Andy Whyment, Jacqueline Jossa, Kate Garroway or Roman Kemp who wins the 19th and...
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Conservatives Plan Radical Overhaul of BBC TV Licence
This week's General Election will hopefully signal a move away from the divisive issue of Brexit and back towards the domestic agenda.According to a leading journalist the Conservatives, should they...
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Government Orders Review of BBC TV Licence Fee
Only a couple of days into the job, the Government has ordered a review into the future of the BBC TV licence fee.Keen to exercise his strengthened Commons majority the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson,...
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Using Your TV Set to Listen to Radio: An Important Reminder
For whatever reason we've been receiving a lot of visitors searching for information about whether a TV licence is required by a person ONLY using their TV set to listen to radio.The short answer is no...
View ArticleTV Licensing Gets Well Deserved Festive Kicking
The BBC, under the guise of TV Licensing, relentlessly pursues some of the most vulnerable and cash-strapped members of society for payment of the TV licence fee.Payment of a TV licence fee, we should...
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