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New BBC Chairman Announced
A former banker and trusted Government advisor has been selected as the next Chairman of the BBC Executive Board.Apologies for the tardiness of this story.Richard Sharp will take over from the...
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Scam Alert: TV Licence Coronavirus Refund Message
Readers are advised to be aware of a new variant TV licence scam currently doing the rounds.On this occasion unsuspecting victims are being targeted by text messages falsely claiming that they are...
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BBC Faces Financial Risk Over TV Licence
A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the financial future of the BBC, according to a report by the National Audit Office.The BBC's Strategic Financial Management report says that the national broadcaster...
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BBC Spends £1.1m on Inequality Legal Fees
The impoverished BBC - which can barely afford a pot to piss in, if you believe its regular tales of financial woe - spent more than £1.1 million fighting pay and race inequality claims brought by...
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Government Bottles Decriminalisation of TV Licence Evasion
The Government has just announced the outcome of a consultation on the decriminalisation of TV licence evasion.Despite earlier bouts of anti-BBC virtue-signalling, the Government has decided against...
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BBC Criticised Over Hour-Long Hydration Workshop
The BBC has come in for fresh criticism today, after it emerged that staff are being encouraged to take part in an hour-long hydration workshop.I shit you not.The hour-long "Hydration" webinar reminds...
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Peer Slams Outdated BBC TV Licence
The House of Lords piled fresh pressure on the Government over its decision not to decriminalise TV licence evasion.Speaking earlier today Baroness Kate Hoey, formerly Labour MP for Vauxhall, described...
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BBC Bosses Accused of Fiddling Over-75 TV Licence Statistics
BBC bosses stand accused of fiddling the number of over-75s now paying for a TV licence.We really can't believe that those institutionally corrupt shit bags upstanding, moral guardians of broadcasting...
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Clementi Blocks Release of BBC TV Licence Fee Collection Strategy
The outgoing Chairman of the BBC Executive Board, Sir David Clementi, has personally blocked the release of documents outlining the Corporation's TV licence fee collection strategy.The information was...
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Cricket Legend Botham Slams BBC Army of Debt Collectors
Cricket legend Ian Botham has hit out at the BBC's army of debt collectors, who he accuses of "terrorising" over-75s into paying the TV licence fee.Writing in the Telegraph (paywall), the former...
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BBC Fined for Contempt of Court: Serious Deficiencies in Journalism
The BBC has been fined for making a pretty rudimentary error in its coverage of a remote court hearing.As any A-level law student will testify, it is contempt of court to record or broadcast any court...
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No Joke: TV Licence Price Hike from 1st April
The price of the BBC TV licence is to rise from 1st April 2021.An annual colour TV licence will rise from £157.50 to 159.00.An annual black & white (monochrome) TV licence will rise from £53.00 to...
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BBC Bosses and Ministers Hold Urgent Talks to Quell Over-75 TV Licence Disquiet
BBC bosses and Government ministers are holding urgent talks about ways of supporting over-75 TV licence holders, who recently became eligible to pay the annual fee.The BBC recently reneged on its...
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BBC Delays Enforcement of Over-75 TV Licence
The BBC has said that it will not enforce new TV licence rules applying to the over-75s, for the time being.The BBC, by virtue of the Broadcasting Act 1990, is the statutory Television Licensing...
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MPs to Discuss Petition Calling for Revocation of TV Licence
MPs are to discuss the outcome of a petition calling for legislation to revoke the BBC TV licence.The petition, which attracted just shy of 111,000 signatories, highlighted the unfairness of current...
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TV Licensing Gentle Reminder Letter
Well, well, well - this is a turn up for the books. TV Licensing appears to have adopted a slightly more conciliatory tone in its latest reminder letter, soon to be landing on a doormat near you!The...
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BBC Bosses Slammed for Over-75 TV Licence Amnesty
Oh dear, oh dear. The BBC is attracting yet more criticism - as if that were humanly possible - on the thorny topic of the over-75 TV licence.Earlier this month the BBC announced that it had not...
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Reader Letter: TV Licensing Goon Snooping Around Garden
In today's post we respond to an email received from one of our readers.Leanne from Wolverhampton got in touch after finding a TV Licensing goon snooping about in her garden. The intruder made a quick...
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TV Licensing Kite-Flying: Falsely Accusing People of TV Licence Evasion
If you're a patron of the TV Licensing Blog, you probably realise already what a thoroughly unscrupulous, dishonest organisation TV Licensing is.Make no mistake that TV Licensing, acting with the full...
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TV Licensing Sued After Refusing to Reimburse Payments to 82-Year-Old
The tables have been turned on TV Licensing, with a man successfully suing the organisation to recover payments it had wrongly taken from his 82-year-old uncle.Haydn Welch, 63, noticed that TV licence...
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