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Massive TV Licence Price from Today
The BBC TV licence fee increases to £169.50 from today.For sake of comparison, a Netflix standard plan currently costs £131.88 a year and Amazon Prime Instant Video (aff. link - use for 30 day free...
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Surveillance Regulator: BBC TV Detection Methods "Struggling to Keep Up with...
TV Licensing Blog Exclusive: The BBC's TV detection magic is struggling to keep pace with technology, according to a report by the official surveillance regulator.The comments, which will undoubtedly...
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TV Licensing Disproportionately Targeting Women
Over the last few days there has been a bit of a media campaign highlighting the disproportionate number of women prosecuted by TV Licensing.The Magistrates' Association, which claims to be the...
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Unpicking Threatogram Bullshit: A TV Licensing Turdectomy
Today, for your education and entertainment, I perform a turdectomy on one of TV Licensing's latest caustic missives.The threatogram in question has the shit scary bold heading: Local investigation...
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BBC Spends £400k Educating Journos' Kids
The BBC spends £400k a year on the school fees of the children of ten of its foreign-based journalists.Figures disclosed to the Daily Mail under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 confirm that between...
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TV Licensing Outsmarted by Technology
A few days ago, as you may have heard on the grapevine, we broke the news that the BBC's secretive TV detection methods are failing to keep pace with advances in technology.That's not our opinion - it...
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TV Licensing Website: No TV Declaration Difficulties
A significant proportion of non-viewers are having difficulties when it comes to declaring their No Licence Needed (NLN) status via the TV Licensing website.A quick reminder that legally speaking...
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Former BBC News Presenter Martine Croxall Begins Discrimination Legal Action
Former BBC News presenter Martine Croxall is taking the national broadcaster to an Employment Tribunal over allegations of workplace discrimination.Croxall, 55, joined the BBC in 1991 on a work...
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BBC Commits to £6m Investment in Online Education Platform
The BBC has committed to £6 million of investment in its online education platform, BBC Bitesize.Deviating slightly from normal TV Licensing Blog service, I have to say that BBC Bitesize is product...
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BREAKING: Huw Edwards Resigns from BBC in Wake of Sex Pics Scandal
BBC News at Ten anchor Huw Edwards, has resigned from his £439,000 a year job after spending the last nine months living as an off-air recluse.Edwards, 62, inexplicably disappeared from the airwaves...
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BBC Settlement Agreements: £2.8 Million of Cash Sweeteners for Ex-Employees
In the last three years the BBC paid £2.8 million of cash sweeteners to ex-employees.The eye-watering amount, which is the equivalent of 16,500 TV licences, was uncovered by a freedom of information...
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Fury at BBC Plans to Protect Nonce Statue
The BBC has sparked public condemnation for its plans to erect a protective screen in front of a controversial statue.According to MailOnline, a planning application has been submitted in relation to...
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BBC Blows £169 Million on TV Licensing Threatogram Delivery Deal
The BBC has agreed to pay £169 million for the delivery of TV Licensing threatograms over the next five years.The eye-watering figure, which represents one million TV licences, is £11 million more than...
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TV Sports Presenter Arrested Over Child Sex Allegations
A well-known television sports presenter has been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences.The allegations are said to be historic in nature, against a female child who was under the age of ten at...
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TV Licence and BBC iPlayer: Artificial Intelligence Failure
I have just come across an artificial intelligence platform churning out duff information about the TV licence.Hardly surprising you might think, given that the BBC is a real intelligence platform...
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TV Licensing Letters: Dishonest, Misleading, Unfair, Unjust
BlackBeltBarrister has described TV Licensing's persistence in sending "final, final warnings" as being dishonest, misleading, unfair and unjust.In the view of Daniel ShenSmith, a barrister of England...
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TV Licensing Threatens Euro 2024 Football Fans
Bang on cue at the dawn of a major international sporting event, the BBC's revenue generation pariahs have threatened fans with the consequences of unlicensed viewing.Euro 2024 kicked off yesterday...
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Reform UK Pledges to Axe Despised BBC TV Licence
Reform UK has pledged to axe the despised BBC TV licence if it gets into power.As far as I am aware, it is the only political party to give such a cast-iron guarantee on the future of the £169.50...
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The Cost of Protecting Controversial BBC Broadcasting House Statue
The BBC has confirmed it will cost £89,000 to erect a glass screen in front of the Prospero and Ariel statue at Broadcasting House.Prospero is shown sending Ariel out into the world. When the statue...
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TV Licensing: 1 in 10 People Wrongly Claim No Licence Needed
According to one of TV Licensing's latest caustic missives, 1 in 10 people wrongly claim No Licence Needed.Of course it requires a bit of leg work to establish who the 1 in 10 actually are, so true to...
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