To ask if you have stopped paying your TV Licence?

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Basically that?
I understand a lot of people have just stopped paying.

You know you could just have ignored him don't you ,?
They have no rights to enter your property, just don't engage..

I’ve emigrated but had stopped paying for a tv license so time before doing so, because I didn’t watch live tv.

However, I do think the BBC is an excellent news source and public good. It probably does need modernizing and slim-lining as an entertainment provider, but I wouldn’t like to see it go subscription-only.

Here’s me

I think before long the number of people paying will drop so low that something will have to be done. It's just stupid to require a license to watch TV in this day and age. And stupid to have the BBC supported in this way, it means they don't have to try to compete with the other providers as their income is guaranteed whereas the other providers have to put out quality programming if they want people to pay for it.

@Adelant is required to have a license though.

Hi @EmmaH2022 could you tell me like a 5 year old exactly what to do about cancelling and getting a form please?
Also, what am I not allowed to do/watch after this??

@Adelant is required to have a license though.

This 1 poster might be but that doesn't mean the other people they send copious amounts of letters to or send 'enforcement' inspectors to are.

They must spend a huge amount of the revenue they make on people checking up on others at home and sending sack fulls of threatening letters.

I am but I justify it to myself that I never watch BBC content. Yes, I know that’s no excuse. But I’ve saved £1,300 over the past few years.

Yes.
I use the BBC everyday. Radio, news, bbc sounds, iplayer.Rarely watch live. I appreciate the the fee isn't levied in radio/news/website but that's what the license fee also pays for.

They must spend a huge amount of the revenue they make on people checking up on others at home and sending sack fulls of threatening letters.

They wouldn't need to do this if it weren't for people like those on this thread who are using the services without paying.

@VeryQuaintIrene You can watch it via a proxy VPN, that's what I do.

It's Archaic isn't it
It made sense when there were just three channels but they are clinging onto a system that just doesn't work
At least they don't come out with all that nonsense about detector vans anymore though!

They wouldn't need to do this if it weren't for people like those on this thread who are using the services without paying.

This is a daft argument. The amount of people being caught watching it without paying has been steadily declining. Even if all 50,000 people who had been caught last year paid £1000 its nowhere near what they have spent on trying to catch people.

If they made it a proper an opt in service like netflix or other streaming services then people wouldn't be able to access it without paying and so there would be no need for threatening letter or enforcement inspectors.

With or without a license fee?

I still pay it, but do think it needs reforming now. Maybe a subscription service just for catch-up and that can then fund the live TV.
I don't understand how people don't watch any live TV ever. What about the news? What about when the queen died and the funeral - how did people watch it? What about live football, Olympics etc? I'm genuinely curious. I can't imagine never watching the news or live sports.

This might blow your mind but I didn't watch the Queen's funeral 😱

I can't imagine never watching the news or live sports.

The news is depressing and I’m
not sporty.

If you don't use something it's silly paying for it, we pay as we use it and all the streaming services as well, I don't think DS pays though as he rarely watches much TV and just had Netflix

You could watch the queens funeral without a licence

I literally do not care about sports at all. Listened to the Queen coverage on the radio. News from newspapers.

I don't have a TV licence. Don't watch it. Waste of money.

I do and value BBC tv and radio.

I mainly read, rather than watch news, although I do watch some news content on YouTube.

Didn’t watch the Queen’s funeral, don’t watch the Olympics and only watch live football occasionally, in pubs.

We pay for it at the moment as DH is watching stuff on iPlayer.

Frankly I can't wait to cancel it. We don't watch live TV, we stream stuff (Disney +).

Indeed you did not need a TV licence to watch the funeral if you desired to do so.