Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

[WhiteDragon66]

At the moment I am living in an HMO. I have lived here for coming up to three years now.
I have a licence. However I have noticed that two of the residents within the household have been receiving letters from TV LIcensing for quite a long time now.
There are six of us all together living here. I think that I am the only one who is licensed though?
Would I be right in reporting just these two individuals, do you think, or should I just simply ignore this??
Any feedback would be really very helpful. Thank you.

Fuck the BBC. I haven't paid it for quite awhile now. I don't have a TV, I have a Computer though. They are not worth saving, also if they wanted to actually enforce the TV license, they would require actual verification for iplayer, instead of a pornhub style pinky promise that you have a license.

TV licence fee cost per month: £14.12 to cover four TV channels plus news channel plus numerous radio stations plus iPlayer on unlimited number of devices.

Netflix cost per month for standard service (i.e. no adverts) for two devices: £10.99 for one channel.

I know which looks like better value to me.

i don’t have a license, don’t own a tv either anymore. I watch Disney+ and paramount that’s it. Used to have a license until last year. Reporting your own flatmates? Why? That’s going to make living with them harmonious isn’t it?

It depends on the scenario. If you have multiple occupiers like in an HMO where each occupier has a distinct address, then each person needs their own Licence to watch TV in their own room/flat/bedsit. However, if there is a communal area like a TV room, then one Licence held by any occupier or paid for by the group covers this.

Their site implies that each person requires their own licence to watch TV even in a communal setting, but this simply is not true, because Licences are issued to addresses and physical properties, not individual people. It's yet another attempt to hoodwink and generate income. If what they are implying was true, then Mum, Dad, DD19 and DS17 would all require their own licences to sit and watch the livingroom TV in the family home, and that is clearly nonsense. The home is covered by one licence, who actually paid for it is immaterial.

Grass

TV Licensing has nothing to do with BBC Radio. Anyone and everyone is free to listen to BBC radio anywhere they like, regardless of whether or not they own a Licence for any property. It's a completely free to use service.

But not free to make. It's funded by the licence fee.

Irrelevant. It isn't a selling point for the TV Licence when a TV Licence is not required to use the service, so I have no idea why people repeatedly cite it as one.

I dont like subscription evasion but I'd say leave them alone.

It's up to them how they choose to live their lives, none of your business.

Mind your own and do better.

Yes, free and independent media is important, but the BBC ISN'T a free and independent media! It's anything but! They harbour paedophiles, don't report facts and clearly have a bias. Tell me again why I should be funding a paedophile-supporting, biased TV company?

I do love the BBC but it's completely ridiculous that the TV licence still operates on the assumption that you need one, and you then have to show that you don't. It should be a proper opt-in option

If it's going to be relevant in the modern day, it really needs to modernise, and come out of its 50s business model.

Mind your own businesses . You don’t even know if they need it . I do not watch any life tv so we do not need one . I have Netflix , prime and Disney . No need for live tv and no need not anything bbc related .

I am averaging one letter a month, despite declaring I do not need a licence......because I dont! We own a TV because the kids use it for their consoles, no one in the house watches live TV or Iplayer.

Doesnt stop them writing because they dont believe me. Keep your nose out. A hell of a lot of people legitimately dont need a licence these days.

And without proof they can do bugger all anyway, they can threaten all they like but without proof there is no fine or anything else. And they cant get into a property without a court order which they wont get so.... who the hell cares?!

Mind your own business ffs.

How do you think the production & broadcast of BBC Radio is paid for? By fairies?

Don’t be so silly 🤣

-They're receiving letters so TV Licencing already know they don't have one, what will reporting them do?

Its paid for by the commercial arm of the BBC.....so selling their stuff abroad, advertising etc. During the Clarkson, Hammond and May years Top Gear made 50 odd million for the BBC, all through product licensing and overseas syndication/sales.

You think that the licence fee funds the entirity of the BBC and SHE is being silly?! Oh that is so sweet!

How could you be arsed bothering with this?.

How it's paid for is utterly irrelevant, besides, Licencing is far for the BBC's sole source of revenue.

It's a nonsense point, every bit as much as suggesting the availability of iPhones makes makes paying for AppleTV+ better value.

You are an awful human being.

I don’t watch live tv and so don’t need a tv licence. An inspector called and confirmed this to be the case. I told him that I was fed up receiving threatening letters on a regular basis from them and he said it would stop now that he’d been round. Well it didn’t and for years now the letters come and are thrown unopened into the recycling bin.

Letters from tv Licensing do not mean that your neighbours need a licence.

Nothing like a TV licence thread to whip MN up, it's like a speeding thread. At least OP has spelt licence correctly

Do they even watch live TV , the amount of people that think you need a TV licence just for owning a TV .....

I have a TV but it's a smart TV and I only use t for YouTube and Netflix so I don't have a TV licence, still get letters though and once a visit, I showed him my setup, that I don't want live TV and he left and said that I didn't have to have one.