>brits need a license to watch tv

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>>brits need a license to watch tv legally

What the fuck

>>68924595
how does cbc get its funding?

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>be British
>hear tires go SCREEEEECH outside
>look outside
>see this

>>68924891
I was going to say
>british tax dollars at work
but then I realized it'd "british tax pounds at work." Do they even use that expression?

Can a limey help me out?

>>68924891
Why don't they just put a nominal tax on new screens, or an extra levy on income taxes?

Why go to all the effort of having some secret TV licence enforcement agency?

Why do they do this and still have obnoxious ads all over the BBC website and mobile app?

>>68924595
wat

>>68925164
yeah I never understood this either, I'm pretty sure TVNZ's funding just comes out of our taxes

>>68925164
You can buy a tv and use it as a monitor

>>68924687
The feds

>>68925192
they need a license to watch to

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>>68924595

>brits need a license to have a dog

>>68925233
But you could just put a blanket tax on every new screen, phones/tvs/monitors etc, since all that TV content is available on the web these days as well. If it was something like 10 pounds per screen, I don't think anyone would care that much.

>>68924595
man..the Uk is disappointing me more and more..
Happens the same for scots, welsh and north irish or just english?

>>68925328
But it's not fare. I pay additional tax if I buy usb or DVD disk because government assumes it's for pirating films. It's just retarded. I understand that it's more convenient than creating a service for tv tax collecting

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>>68924595

>>68924687
ad money and the federal government

>>68925437
Anybody who wants to watch the BBC is supposed to pay the annual licence fee that funds it.
It's not really enforced but the letters can get annoying, plus most people are very favourable towards the BBC.

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move over amateurs, as usual the eternal kiwi has already solved the problem
>Approximately 90% of TVNZ's revenue is from commercial activity (such as advertising and merchandising).[3] The remainder of its funding comes from government funding agencies.

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>>68924595
There's a reason for that

>>68925479
It's just a tax like any other, no one likes paying taxes, but shit has to get funded somehow. Having a well-funded independent broadcaster/media producer is very benefitial, I would argue, and I know the BBC's very popular, as is our indepedent broadcaster, there's political support to keep them around.

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>>68925554
>advertising
The eternal Jew rears its head again.

>>68925601
nice try commie but I'm not buying it

>>68924983
We don't use that expression

>>68925582
But bbc is pure propaganda. A little bit better than rt but still. I would never pay for something so biased as bbc if I had a choice
>>68925601
Advertisement is pretty funny tho.

>>68925656
>biased
Mate, RT is a government run Russian propaganda machine.

The BBC is completely independent from the government, with numerous independent watchdogs to ensure it remains as impartial as possible.
The only influence our government has on the BBC is a limited control overs it budget.

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>>68925506
Yet these countries still haven't got anything even closely as relevant as the BBC on a worldwide stage.

>>68925756
the david attenborough drinking game is GOAT btw

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Friendly reminder BBC4 is the best BBC channel.

>>68925821
Friendly reminder Radio 4 is the best BBC station.

>>68925305
People should have to get a license to own an unneutered or unspayed animal at all.

>>68925756
fucking VICE is more relevant than BBC nowadays.

>>68925732
Well what's the difference if they are both shit? RT is a meme channel for retarded foreigners and russian patriots who live outside russia and bbc, at least they foreign news coverage, is a total biased shit where everyone outside of modern humanistic politics is fashist

>>68924595
do i need a license to watch someone else's tv

>>68925940
Let me guess, you're more more partial to Infowars and Brietbart because the main stream media are "da joos".

>>68925981
No just your household.

>brits need a license to own a gun
Oh wait you can't have one because you live on a rainy freedomless island.

>>68925909
For you.

>>68925909
No
Even the Americans often use BBC on their public radio and Sir David Attenborough is the official voice of science (mostly biology) for all English speaking people worldwide.

>>68926003
Nah they are retarded too. Even though I agree that mainstream media is a fucking shit but infowars is not better they always blame someone but don't even try to understand the roots of modern problems.

>>68925909
Now this is the kind of bait that i expect from 4 chan, top quality m'lady

>>68926007
There are around 2 million legal guns in the UK you muppet.

>>68925909
After America the UK is the biggest exporter of television media, with the US being its biggest importer (£500m worth).

>>68925164
The BBC are bitches and keep crying that they will be under-funded if they only get sales tax money.

DESU The licensee fee might be on the way out given how the BBC is much more shit these days objectivity, In the last year they lost Top Gear and Bake Off. If it keeps failing to impress the public it will be a matter of time.

>>68924595
thats pretty good
people are so fucking dumb they fucking need license to watch tv

literally zero media literacy theyve got

>>68926298
They changed the charter rules to enforce objectivity in their reporting now. Before it was just voluntary. Now it's part of their contract with the government.

>>68926298
I dunno the BBC still often does well during key periods of the week like Saturday evenings, things like Strictly Come Dancing often beating its competitors in viewing figures for example. Documentary wise I've yet to see a broadcaster best the BBC, not just wildlife but a whole range of subjects.

>>68924891
Those tv vans are literal scare tactics they've been pulling since the 80s. The Beeb can't track down unlicensed sets.
>>68925732
BBC is white propaganda like all other state-funded outlets, don't kid yourself. Just because you have a wider reach than most doesn't make you any better.

>>68924983
pretty sure they say tax money

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>brits need a license to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyhmlS-CMsQ&t

>>68924595
technically so do Japanese, but when they come to your door you just say you don't have a TV, and they go "oh ok" and walk away.

>>68925164
This. Its 2016, no-one watches TV anymore. TV died about 10 years ago.

Almost every country in europe does this too

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>pay TV tax to get unbiased news coverage
>the news are the second most biased right after Helsinskaja Pravda

>>68927221
they don't call it BBC for nothing

>>68924983
We would say 'tax payers money'

>>68927221
pengest munch lad is going places

>>68925164
Brits feel the need to have diverse methods of taxation, like bedroom taxes.

>>68927426
Dont forget the sleeping in same bed tax for couples.