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Letters from BBC Television
Licensing
From the beginning of 2006, I decided not to renew my television
licence. I found that my television viewing consisted almost entirely of tapes
of old programmes purchased off Ebay, and that my watching of broadcast
television was less than an hour a week. I therefore decided to stop watching
broadcast television and now spend the £145.50 saved from the TV licence
fee on video tapes and DVDs. It is a good decision; I now pay for what I watch,
and not for what I don't watch.
The only fly in the ointment has been aggressive letters from TV
Licensing (TVL), which collects the licence fee on behalf of the BBC. TVL/BBC
sends millions of letters every year to people who do not watch broadcast
television, demanding payment. For many people, these letters can be very
frightening.
But the letters are a bluff; they are computer-generated.
TVL/BBC have none of the powers their letters imply and, with a little
knowledge, people can stand up to the bullies. The purpose of this website is
to share my TVL/BBC letters as I receive them, and to provide useful
information for people who have no time for the BBC.
February 2011
I enter my sixth year as a non-person;
my, how time flies. I have saved £821 by not paying TVL/BBC and, assuming
50p a letter, cost the BBC a further £25 in postage.
No January
mailing this year, but there is a letter for February, which states that I have
left them with"no alternative but to proceed with the final stages of our
investigation":
May 2011
August 2011
October 2011
A visitor to this site sent in the
following letter, not dissimilar to that received by myself in May 2006. Note
the empty check-boxes, to the top of the letter, which imply that the BBC
inspector will fill them out during the visit; he won't, of course, since this
letter belongs to the recipient. It is just another example of
theatre.
November
2011
Stay tuned for another TVL/BBC letter,
soon.
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