Here in the UK, we have to have a licence if we own a television or have means to receive broadcasts from the BBC. Up until recently, if you were over 75, you had a free TV licence, but that has all been scuppered as pensioners are means tested now and need to be in receipt of certain benefits before they are eligible. In my book, this is all wrong and for many pensioners, a television is their only means of contact with the outside world and our caring government have taken it away.
Hubby and I haven’t had a television since 2007. We don’t miss it, and people find it strange that we don’t have one. There is absolutely nothing that interests us anyway, and as programmes being broadcast are in excess of 40/50 years old, nothing is likely to.
Even if they were to charge the same as the licence fee was when these programmes were originally broadcast, we still wouldn’t want one.
We joked that when we were 75, we’d get a television because of the free licence, even though we doubted anything would change. Seems we won’t have to bother anyway.
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I stopped watching it and use it for the music channels.
We have a mini hifi system with CD player and radio, but I don’t listen to very much unless I’m in the car.
The cost of cable service just keeps going up. If it weren’t bundled with the internet I’d ditch the TV. I can watch what I want online…
Hubby watches Youtube and we have a wide selection of DVDs.
Surely the cost of collecting the fees and policing it must outweigh the income.
They will probably send the vans round as they did before, but there will be a data base of people with licences and they will just start with that. IMO it is totally wrong to take away what was a ‘perk’ of old age.