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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

The Licence Fee is going too be set at £151 by 2012. The BBC is of course pleading poverty wanting it to be above inflation.

I think they need to stop paying big salaries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6273347.stm

Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:55 am Post subject:

Well, based on the amount of hours I watch each week, £151 will not really represent good value for money. Crying or Very sad

On the other hand, I do use their radio services a lot.... like R2, for instance. Smile

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It should be scrapped or reduced not raised Evil or Very Mad

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Who else remembers having to buy a wireless licence if you didn't own a telly?

This stopped circa 1971.

Ian.

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

Me
and once upon a time you had to have both.
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There are between 24 and 25 million households in the UK

151 X 25 million is a big number cos my desk calculator just says "E" I think short for......... Enormous...

I've had to get my scientific calculator out ( Two calculators - Posh or what?) ...£3,775,000,000... Three Billion Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Million..

R2 gets about £37.5 Million......... about 1% of your licence fee or £1.51 per year .... about half the cost of a popular menu item in MacDonald's.....

So given the choice of ....A half eaten Bigmac or Radio 2 for a year.......... I'll pass, on the dead meat.

SantaFefan · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject:

""151 X 25 million is a big number cos my desk calculator just says "E" I think short for......... Enormous... ""

or maybe it was made up North?

"E, that's a big bluddee number!"

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

It could be because we're careful with our numbers and don't let them expand too far like they do dahn Sauf. Confused

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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

Julia · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

I get getting rather sh*tty letters from the tv licencing people threatening me with fines etc etc - I got so fed up I wrote them an equally sh*tty letter back informing them that as I didn't own a tv or any of the equpiment stated would they please refrain from sending me their letters... I think it's wrong to assume everyone has a tv and send stupid letters out just automatically Grrrr! Exclamation

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SantaFefan · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

They'll ignore your letter Julia and keep sending the threatening letters.
I have exactly the same thing with a property which was formerly 6 flats. They haven't been flats for 7 or 8 years now and I STILL get "an inspector will call" ! threat on a regular basis.
I'm hoping they will turn up one day, I'd enjoy watching them looking for non-existent tv's!

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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

The BBC are getting more money every year and week when new people sign up to the licence.

I like hearing on vines show today some of the phone in listeners using some technical stuff saying the licence fee is for the equipment the BBC uses, the licence fee isn't used for radio and there is no such thing as vans which go around checking if you have a licence it's done on postcodes. It's strange JV and his team got all this information beforehand. It does to show not many BBC staff know what is going on and always fighting against each other.

I still think some salaries should be cut back.

SantaFefan · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject:

So do I, funny how no emails were read out saying this! (not that I heard anyhow.)

Julia · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

thanks all Smile

they've stopped now I think... touch wood!
but now we just have had a bunch of break-ins... our halls really aren't safe Sad

windows smashed, doors broken, stuff stollen - yikes!
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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Time for Jonathan Ross to be given a pay cut me thinks.

Cherskiy · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK