I’m not renewing my TV licence - any pitfalls?

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30808

    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
    If the Radio Times can't be bothered about classical music and the BBC's own broadcasts thereof, we're doomed.
    Don't forget Radio Times is no longer a BBC publication …
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Beef Oven!
      Ex-member
      • Sep 2013
      • 18147

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Don't forget Radio Times is no longer a BBC publication …
      Too late

      My point is still good, all the same.

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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
        The examples I gave in #185 are not really anything to do with whether one 'knows about classical music', more a case of 'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order'. The information for the items in the programmes was all there but had been put together in the wrong order. It wasn't even a case of trying to save space, as the number of lines was the same as if the information had been assembled in the correct order. So as far as I am concerned somebody, at some point in the process, made a decision to 'do it wrong', and no-one has seen fit to correct the practice.
        As a matter of interest what were the Netherlands Chamber Choir actually supposed to be singing in (a clue, it's probably located somewhere above the Bruckner on the page....)
        Here's what I posted in real time on the 'Hear & Now' thread, as I was listening live ....


        "Did I hear that correctly? Did Kate Molleson introduce Lori Goldston's composition (playing now 10.46pm) as "That Sunrise"? I ask because in the Radio Times It is listed as "That Sunset". Who's right, Kate, RT or did I hear wrong?

        Whatever it's called, it's excellent music. It has certainly lifted the quality level of tonight's programme.

        Right, I did hear it correctly. At its conclusion, Robert Worby called it "That Sunrise". The Radio Times is a joke. They name as "That Sunset". How stupid can it get!?"

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        • Beef Oven!
          Ex-member
          • Sep 2013
          • 18147

          Over half way through October and I'm still doing fine without a TV license.

          Edit: I've had no visit nor seen any vans. Have given my TV to another family member to use.

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 38184

            Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
            Over half way through October and I'm still doing fine without a TV license.

            Edit: I've had no visit nor seen any vans. Have given my TV to another family member to use.
            The odd thing is, the licensing authority has sent me an email thanking me for renewing my license fee online, as previously, and confirming with a copy for me to run off that I'm valid until October next year.

            Odd because, a) I have no recollection of renewing it online last year; and b) because a fortnight later no deduction has been made from my bank account!

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20589

              Pinch me. I'm having a bad dream. We've become an American state and now have TV liSences.


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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25296

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                The odd thing is, the licensing authority has sent me an email thanking me for renewing my license fee online, as previously, and confirming with a copy for me to run off that I'm valid until October next year.

                Odd because, a) I have no recollection of renewing it online last year; and b) because a fortnight later no deduction has been made from my bank account!


                You aren't missing much on MOTD, United are painful to watch at the moment.

                I hope you reminded your family member to buy a Television Licence TM
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25296

                  Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                  Pinch me. I'm having a bad dream. We've become an American state and now have TV liSences.


                  That's TVLicence TM
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • un barbu
                    Full Member
                    • Jun 2017
                    • 131

                    After fifteen years without a television or a licence I succumbed two months ago and bought one on the grounds that I would be supporting Radio 3. Ha. Just look at R3 now!' Ever been had?' springs to mind.
                    Barbatus sed non barbarus

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 38184

                      Originally posted by un barbu View Post
                      After fifteen years without a television or a licence I succumbed two months ago and bought one on the grounds that I would be supporting Radio 3. Ha. Just look at R3 now!' Ever been had?' springs to mind.
                      Then you made a double mistake: BBC Radio is not supported by the TV license.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30808

                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        Then you made a double mistake: BBC Radio is not supported by the TV license.
                        So where does the money come from?
                        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                        • Beef Oven!
                          Ex-member
                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147

                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          Pinch me. I'm having a bad dream. We've become an American state and now have TV liSences.


                          Somehow, I've managed to get my Mac on US English as default*

                          Anyway, if I'd realized how easy it would be without a color TV license, I'd have done this tears ago.

                          Anyone know how to get it back to UK English?

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            You aren't missing much on MOTD, United are painful to watch at the moment.

                            I hope you reminded your family member to buy a Television Licence TM
                            I am replying to this instead of S_A. Yes, United are boringingly anti-football - that Liverpool game was an embarrassment. We'll just have to settle for 4 points from them.

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                            • jean
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7100

                              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                              Pinch me. I'm having a bad dream. We've become an American state and now have TV liSences
                              Don't you mean licenSes?

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25296

                                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                                I am replying to this instead of S_A. Yes, United are boringingly anti-football - that Liverpool game was an embarrassment. We'll just have to settle for 4 points from them.


                                Points mean prizes.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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