TV Licensing - Official Warning
Amanda and I got another letter from the TVLA today entitled “OFFICIAL WARNING” (I have no idea why they are shouting) and goes on to say; “Our Law Enforcement Division has identified that there is no record of a TV License at your address and that you may therefore be watching or recording television without a license. If this is the case, you are breaking the law”…. which I guess is at least true, if rather rude and accusatory and threatening.
It then goes on about their “Enforcement Officers” being authorised to visit my address in my street (not that I live in a street, and an odd choice of words?) to interview me “under caution”. If they find a TV here they will prosecute me and fine me up to £1000, like they do to nearly 80,000 people a year.
All I have t do avoid this nastiness all I have to do is buy a TV License!
Is there not a third way, why am i either a TV License Holder or a TV License Evader, why can’t I be a Non-TV-Watcher? I visited their web site but I cannot find any answer to the question “What if i don’t have a TV?”.
I really hate bullies! It is the assumption that I am guilty that gets my goat. I have no TV, no DVD player, no VCR, no set-top-box, no “computer capable of receiving a TV signal” (why would I want any of these things?) and because of this the TVLA/BBC have no business whatsoever with me.
Ignore their letters - check out this site -
http://www.bbctvlicence.com
Anti-beeb
31 May 07 at 11:42 pm
Good link Anti-beeb.
I used to see their vans driving about here (Machynlleth) with blacked out windows and “TV Detector Van” (or similar) written up the side - it was clear to anyone who looked that it was a minibus complete with seats in the back. Do these guys have any rights at all? Are they allowed to come and ‘detect’ me (I live 100m up a private drive). Can they come in my house? And anyway, why are they allowed to harass people? I don’t have a TV, I don’t want a TV, I have never had a TV license and am under no obligation to justify this. As I say, I hate bullies!
admin
1 Jun 07 at 7:49 am
don’t have a telly, don’t want a telly and i don’t pay any attention to the telly police!
rachel red
26 Jun 07 at 11:59 pm
Don\\\’t worry about the letters chief. I receive one telling me that the inspectors are coming to check up on me several times a year but they never do. When the letters started about three years ago I phoned the TV licencing people but got through to an automated answer service which didn\\\’t have an option to tell them that I don\\\’t watch TV. Nothing bad has happened so far…I think they\\\’re more interested in chavs than hippies.
david thomas
14 Nov 07 at 10:54 pm
this message is for charmain. i have a detuned HD digital TV and i use it as a computer monitor. i dont pay a licence. if my computer had a TV card then i still would not have to have one unless that was tuned in. if your not recieving TV as its broadcasted then dont pay it. if you like the 4 channels have a look at 4od. as for dave, the only program on there is top gear which you can find on youtube, google, TV-links.cc and other internet streams. why limit yourself to mainstream TV in which you have to stick to a shedule, when you can use the internet and watch what you want when you want. im ahead of most people with some programs by doing this. the best thing about not limiting yourself to mainstream TV, is no bias. you can look at news and events from different angles rather than just the propaganda pumped out by the BBC.
Abolish the TV Licence
10 Sep 08 at 10:49 pm