To stop paying the bbc my license fee.?

[bemorebernard]

I'm thinking of stopping paying the bbc
Anyone know the rules
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I believe Google can be useful.

Googling now thank you

You don’t need a tv license if:

• you don’t watch live tv (any channel) by any means; and
• you don’t use iplayer.

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You aren't required to have a TV licence if your TV faces north or you only watch it during the third quarter of the moon cycle.

But you might want to check the TV licence website because some people post utter crap on here when asked simple factual questions.

-Any TV that is live. This incudes sport on Amazon Prime, Sky etc as well as conventional channels such as ITV, Channel 5 etc

-Any BBC output including IPlayer

You don't need one if you just watch streaming services such as Netflix, arrive etc that you can watch at any time.

First answer has it nailed 😂

No one I know has a TV licence (including us). You do get letters but nothing ever comes of them. In our case we don't have a TV or broadband at home so can't really watch it anyway. We've told them this online but it doesn't make any difference.

I have thought about not having one as we almost never watch live TV but I do use the iplayer quite a lot so will probably continue.

So you live somewhere that no onr has a TV?

I have never had a conversation with any one about whether they have a TV licence, I can't imagine how that would be something you'd know about everyone you know. How does that happen 😀

During my life I’ve known lots of people who don’t have tv’s. It usually comes up when you discuss a tv programme funnily enough.
We don’t have a tv or broadband atm but my ds is coming for Christmas and so if anyone knows any monthly broadband provider I’d be grateful for the recommendation.

My question was about the weirdness, to me anyway, of knowing the TV licence status of everyone you know not about not having a TV itself

Would a wireless dongle meet your short term need?

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I would think you have to tell visitors to your home? So that they know not to watch live TV. That's how I know that one of my friend's doesn't have a licence.

My question was about the weirdness, to me anyway, of knowing the TV licence status of everyone you know not about not having a TV itself

This. See also people who claim to know the salary, showering habits etc of everyone they know.

Of course they don't.

If you have mobile signal, I'd just get a sim card and a mobile broadband hot spot device. This sort of thing:-
https://www.three.co.uk/broadband/mobile-broadband?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmvSoBhDOARIsAK6aV7jS9HMGKGE-Cp6e4qocdWe0tq11zWBNVOZZV2ZoL-fTQHAnk1fCxAgaAv8MEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Most providers will have their own version.

Whereas, I’m thinking of ‘stopping paying Netflix’ based on the utter tosh documentaries they put so much money into, which enables already very wealthy people to control the narrative about their lives and piss away money on glitzy premier events and parties for those people. That’s what my money pays for these days, not the third season of a decent drama, which gets cancelled once people are hooked…

By the way, it isn’t a BBC licence fee it’s actually a U.K. TV licence fee. Cancelling it is really not the anti-BBC rebellious-ninja-move, some people think it to be.

I also dont know anyone who has a license, we talk about bills often and everyone says what a load of rubbish it is, most people only watch Netflix or other sites now anyway not live TV

By the way, it isn’t a BBC licence fee it’s actually a U.K. TV licence fee. Cancelling it is really not the anti-BBC rebellious-ninja-move, some people think it to be.

Is the money shared between all the stations, even though some have paid advertising too?

You can’t watch anything live, no bbc, itv etc or iplayer. You can watch most streaming services. If a friend has a license they can watch live tv and iplayer on mobile devices at your house as long as they don’t plug it in.

Ive cancelled it, we only watch streaming services. It’s been refreshing actually.

Plus when the annual BBC salaries are published, I know I’m not paying for Gary Lineker to spout off.

If your protest is against the BBC but you still want to watch live tv on any platform in the U.K. or listen to say sport on radio 5 (first example I could think of) you need a U.K. tv licence. You lose out and nobody cares about your anti BBC stance 🤷‍♀️

I was asking where the licence fee goes.

You don't need a license to listen to BBC Radio (as it isn't tv....)