Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnji.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!abnji!jca From: jca@abnji.UUCP (james armstrong) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: TV Lisence Message-ID: <326@abnji.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 16:26:55 EST Article-I.D.: abnji.326 Posted: Wed Feb 13 16:26:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:13:05 EST Lines: 16 > In Britain the ownership of a TELEVISION set is strictly > controlled. Actually, ownership of a TV is not controlled at all. You can own as many as you want. You must buy a license to use the TV, however. This is because the BBC is supported by these fees, as well as gov't subsidy (putting a greater burden of providing the service on those that use it). The BBC as a result does not require commercials. Given a choice of paying $75/year (I beleive the present fee for a colour TV is 56 pounds) or watching 16-20 minutes of comercials/hour, I'd pay the money. PS Monty Python's Cat Dectector Van was a spoof of the TV Detector Vans in use at the time. Or so I've been told. -- Basingstoke this is Basingstoke. All change for trains to anywhere else in the universe.