The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s



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On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits
insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the
licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they
should do.

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or
swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

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Rhino

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:57 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch
TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits
insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the
licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they >should do.

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on >everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or
swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

The reason behind those two organizations is supposed to be to help
fund locally produced content. So the CBC helps with Canadian
productions while the BBC helps insure there's more UK productions.
Now, you can argue whether you agree with that idea but so long as the government agrees with the idea that they need to help support local
movie/TV production it's to argue against the two organizations.

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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:57 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee
to watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal
to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits >>insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the >>licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they >>should do.

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on >>everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or >>swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

The reason behind those two organizations is supposed to be to help
fund locally produced content. So the CBC helps with Canadian
productions while the BBC helps insure there's more UK productions.
Now, you can argue whether you agree with that idea but so long as the >government agrees with the idea that they need to help support local
movie/TV production it's to argue against the two organizations.

ITV produces domestic television. I have no idea why television cannot
be produced by a commercial network. ITV is also a network of regional networks.

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On 2026-03-14 05:00:35 +0000, shawn said:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:57 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to >>> watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to
Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits
insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the
licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they
should do.

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on
everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or
swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

The reason behind those two organizations is supposed to be to help
fund locally produced content. So the CBC helps with Canadian
productions while the BBC helps insure there's more UK productions.
Now, you can argue whether you agree with that idea but so long as the government agrees with the idea that they need to help support local movie/TV production it's to argue against the two organizations.

Tax-payers in most countries already pay for a lot of things they never
use themselves ... that's how government and city taxes have always
worked.

The BBC of course does also get some money by selling their shows to
overseas networks and occasionally by partnership deals (e.g. the
recent Disney deal for "Doctor Who").


New Zealand has the government-owned TVNZ network which gets 95% of its
money via advertising and gets no direct government funding. (They
don't say where the other 5% comes from.) It's similar for the government-owned Radio New Zealand.

For local content, there is the government's "NZ On Air" scheme that
any makers of New Zealand TV shows, movies, radio shows, etc. can apply
to for some funding.




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In article <10p2hno$3rdiq$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee
to watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I guess that's one way to save on enforcement.

--
Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.


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On Mar 13, 2026 at 8:12:57 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to
watch
TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits
insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the
licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they should do.

The Barrister has a new video up where he says he's been contacted by a BBC insider-- a whistleblower-- and was informed that they plan to lobby
Parliament to alter the law to require streaming services to share their subscriber data with the BBC so they can compare it to their license database and catch people who aren't paying the government (as well as Netflix) to
watch movies.

Additionally, they want to require streaming services to change their access protocols to require not only a username and password, but to require the customer to input their BBC license number as well, which will then query the BBC's servers for authentication before allowing the customer to view
content.

In other words, if you don't have a license, the streamers will be required to deny you access to their services.

They also want to expand enforcement powers for those they catch violating their new regime beyond the current fines, to now include property seizure,
and prison in extreme cases.

They won't lock you up in Britain for running a human trafficking ring that rapes thousands of children, but they'll throw you in a dark hole if you dare to watch STRANGER THINGS without giving the government its taste.



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On 2026-03-14 1:00 a.m., shawn wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:57 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-13 10:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch
TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament: >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

I've seen a lot of comments under videos in recent months by Brits
insisting that they never watch BBC and resent like hell paying the
licence fee. A whole lot of them want the BBC behind a paywall so that
it funds itself through subscriptions. I think that's exactly what they
should do.

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on
everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or
swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

The reason behind those two organizations is supposed to be to help
fund locally produced content. So the CBC helps with Canadian
productions while the BBC helps insure there's more UK productions.
Now, you can argue whether you agree with that idea but so long as the government agrees with the idea that they need to help support local
movie/TV production it's to argue against the two organizations.

In all my life, I have never heard that helping ensure local productions
is the prime purpose of the CBC. Do you mean "domestic" rather than
"local"? In other words, the way we use "local" in a broadcasting sense
is to refer essentially to municipal/regional broadcasting, like Moose
Jaw Saskatchewan or perhaps Southern Ontario.

I think it *is* fair to describe the CBC's mission as being to have a
Canadian voice on our TVs and radios. (CBC was initially set up to do
radio and only branched into TV later; it still has a radio network.)

If the CBC actually confined itself to being a Canadian voice, I don't
think too many people would be disgruntled with it. The real problem is
their persistent leftist bias, which, of course, they deny. To take just
one example, they literally refuse to call Hamas fighters terrorists
despite Hamas being listed as a terrorist organization by our
government; CBC insists on calling them "militants". It's this kind of
thing that irks so many of us. If they cleaned THAT up and actually gave
at least a reasonable semblance of objectivity, they would probably find themselves back in our good graces.


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Rhino

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:38:48 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch >TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

You left out the part about whether they ever watch the BBC...

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:57 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

We need to do the same thing with the CBC in Canada. A whole lot of us
do NOT watch CBC and are beyond disgusted by their far left slant on >everything. We resent the $1.4 billion dollars of tax money they get
every year to generate leftist propaganda. They should have to sink or
swim on the basis of what they can generate via subscription fees and
ads, NOT tax money.

While I often listen to CBC radio when driving (or when one or two
favorite shows are airing) I seldom ever watch them on TV anymore. A
large part of it is that they have centralized their shows around a
Toronto base and if that's a political show (which is the majority of
what I watch or listen to) it will usually have me screaming since I
like Carney about as much as most Trump supporters like AOC.

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On 2026-03-17 01:32:15 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:38:48 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch
TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

You left out the part about whether they ever watch the BBC...

The UK's TV license fee is not just for the BBC. It is for all *live*
TV broadcast channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, U&Dave and
international channels, as well as subscription networks such as Sky,
Virgin Media, and EE TV.

The license fee is not needed if only using on-demand streaming and /
or listening to the radio (including BBC radio).

People over 75 years old can apply to have the fee waived.


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On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:32:15 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:38:48 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee to watch >>TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

You left out the part about whether they ever watch the BBC...

Though hasn't this been discussed for years. I seem to recall it being
under discussion over a decade ago. Not that it ever went anywhere.

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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-17 01:32:15 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:38:48 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

The BBC now wants to force everyone in the UK to pay the license fee
to watch TV, whether they watch TV or not under their new proposal
to Parliament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx74cM4GQM&t=1099s

You left out the part about whether they ever watch the BBC...

The UK's TV license fee is not just for the BBC. It is for all *live*
TV broadcast channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, U&Dave and >international channels, as well as subscription networks such as Sky,
Virgin Media, and EE TV.

The license fee is not needed if only using on-demand streaming and /
or listening to the radio (including BBC radio).

People over 75 years old can apply to have the fee waived.

There is a separate radio license if you only listen to radio.

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