Terrestrial TV down pan - cancel Licence?

fluffycat
fluffycat Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
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Do you find you put TV on out of habit?? OR HAVE YOU stopped the Licence??

Thinking of stopping licence. Pay 6 ahead and 6 months behind of year fee. Have couple months left and paid few months towards next.

Haven't bought tv magazine for many months and hardly look forward to any TV shows like in past.

Money can go to a film **** and utilise loads of my physical films, games, music and cloud films. Also catch-up bar the Beeb. 




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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,168 Championing
    edited April 2021
    If you won’t miss watching it and don’t use iPlayer, I’d go ahead and cancel it. There is no point paying for something you don’t use! I’ve heard of lots of people doing the same in recent times.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I feel the same way @fluffycat but I’d feel slightly cut off if that makes sense. People often strike up conversations about tv progs and I’d have nothing to say or I’d miss out on the breaking news of an alien invasion or something like that . 

    Its a hard call.
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    leeCal said:
    I feel the same way @fluffycat but I’d feel slightly cut off if that makes sense. People often strike up conversations about tv progs and I’d have nothing to say or I’d miss out on the breaking news of an alien invasion or something like that . 

    Its a hard call.
    Being the first to hear about an alien invasion is my primary motivation for paying the licence fee I think :D 
  • SnooFloofs
    SnooFloofs Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
    I have never paid it nor will I ever I don't believe in the BBC after people whom it has employed and I don't watch live television. I wish they would abolish the licence altogether. 
  • fluffycat
    fluffycat Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
    66Mustang said:
    If you won’t miss watching it and don’t use iPlayer, I’d go ahead and cancel it. There is no point paying for something you don’t use! I’ve heard of lots of people doing the same in recent times.
    I have done it, thanks.

    Wish had done years ago. (thinking about it)

    Can still get fix of non beeb on catch-up but spend time on gaming / films than just rolling tv (out of habit)
  • fluffycat
    fluffycat Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
    Ross_Scope said:
    leeCal said:
    I feel the same way @fluffycat but I’d feel slightly cut off if that makes sense. People often strike up conversations about tv progs and I’d have nothing to say or I’d miss out on the breaking news of an alien invasion or something like that . 

    Its a hard call.
    Being the first to hear about an alien invasion is my primary motivation for paying the licence fee I think :D 
    Any big news my phone bleeps from various sources.

    News is on catch-up upto an hour behind but snippets are on you tube for instance
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,926 Championing
    How do they know if you watch TV without a licence?

    Obviously they can use location/IP address for streaming, but for the normal aerial?  :#
  • fluffycat
    fluffycat Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
    OverlyAnxious said:
    How do they know if you watch TV without a licence?

    Obviously they can use location/IP address for streaming, but for the normal aerial?  :#
    Observe you watching live TV through Window / Door / inside (if let them in) or let slip you are being naughty.

    They don't believe people do other stuff with TV and do send red letters, emails and come round I've heard.


  • Caz_Alumni
    Caz_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 621 Empowering
    Ah yes, the old TV detector vans @woodbine! 

    I too often wondered if the tech that they were supposed to carry in the back to seek out licence-fee dodgers was the stuff of myth and legend.  :D
  • NotReally
    NotReally Online Community Member Posts: 70 Empowering
    My TV has clothes draped over it!   :D

    I've not bothered with a license, I only actually use the TV on the odd occasion that I hook up my iPad to it.  Anyway, I thought terrestrial TV stopped being broadcast in 2012?
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,926 Championing
    I've never seen a detector van!  Either before my time, or they didn't bother out in the stix where I used to live!  :D

  • SnooFloofs
    SnooFloofs Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
    That's because they don't exist and never have done it's all scare tactics to get you to pay they are basically sales men.

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