tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post7703761571807714275..comments2024-03-15T09:20:12.565+00:00Comments on TV Licensing: Magistrates Review TV Licence Evasion Sentencing GuidelinesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-76307442300919961652017-01-31T08:00:18.464+00:002017-01-31T08:00:18.464+00:00Due to legal changes in Scotland, no-one has been ...Due to legal changes in Scotland, no-one has been sent to prison for TV Licensing since 2010. This is because you cannot jail someone they fail to pay a fine of under £500.<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11809201/No-Scots-jailed-for-dodging-licence-fee-as-calls-for-scrapping-criminal-penalties-grow-louder.html<br /><br />Hopefully the same will now apply to the rest of the UK and common sense will prevail.<br /><br />These last, desperate efforts by the BBC to cling onto its monopoly of force where TV broadcasts are concerned is both predictable and futile. We are now in a world where the BBC channel broadcasts are but a small number in a growing multitude.<br /><br />If there are aspects of the BBC which the government views as paramount (News, the Parliament Channel and Children's programmes being the usual candidates), then they should be funded from central taxation.<br /><br />Entertainment and other idiocy should not be subsidised by force. Let them broadcast it on a subscription channel or with advertising (possibly both, the subscription channel being advert free) and then let them sink or swim.<br /><br />The TV License has for too long been a license for BBC excesses and abuse and it must be brought to an end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-77263734928871438702017-01-30T11:56:44.494+00:002017-01-30T11:56:44.494+00:00The tide is turning against criminal penalties bei...The tide is turning against criminal penalties being used to raise money for an entertainment company. Scotland and the Channel Islands have largely given up on prosecutions.Fred Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-91318913001599461532017-01-29T19:29:20.139+00:002017-01-29T19:29:20.139+00:00I Have never watched the BBC...i only watch the di...I Have never watched the BBC...i only watch the discovery and history channel on sky...so why should i pay for re-runs of old tv programs year in year out..they run them all again!!! In 1956 we all paid to watch the film "High Noon"..in 2017 we are still paying for the same film only now it's 61 time more than in 1956...FOR THE SAME FILM!!!! WRONG IT'S ALL WRONGpamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565685705484846563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-51237017262653470382017-01-29T09:43:53.294+00:002017-01-29T09:43:53.294+00:00Which just goes to show it is a money making scam ...Which just goes to show it is a money making scam for HMCS, and Crapita one they want to continue forever. Next wheeze, BBC to lobby for ALL streaming to be brought under TV License? Wonder if Amazon, Netflix and Google YouTube would take court action against BBC/Crapita in that case?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com