I am convinced. But why not just include the price of the license in the price to the TV?
And when is a TV a ‘telly’?
Daphne
I always call the TV a ‘telly’, as do most people I know.
So the answer is - always.
TV License is paid on an annual basis, so you couldn’t include it in the price of a TV as there’d be no way of knowing how long you’d have that one for.
At the moment the license is approx. £120 per annum.
(which would equate to approx. $17 per month)
Turn back, before it’s too late!
Or
Stop early, get off in Eire (southern Ireland) Cead Mille Failte!
No, the licence is for receiving television signals, not for owning the TV. You don’t need a licence if you don’t watch British TV broadcasts.
As Arch Trout describes, the TV licence is an ongoing thing. Think of it as an enforced socialist subscription to top-quality television 
…ok, I’m trying…but seriously, don’t judge the BBC by BBC America!!!..wait until you try Radio 4, and see just how socialist a capitalist country can be 
…
Another thing that’s occured to me, randomly, and is possibly of little relevance in Oxford but much relevance further afield…
Taxis.
There’s the traditional taxi - you can hail it in the street and go where you need, on a set/metered basis which is normally set by a local authority. In some areas these are required to be ‘black cabs’, ie London taxis, but this isn’t universal.
And there’s minicabs, who are supposed to only operate on telephone bookings, and who can charge as little as they like (they still have a maximum). Which is fine. It’s when they misbehave there’s a problem. They’ll still stop in the street when you’re trying to hail a real taxi … the important point is that if minicabs take a passenger in the street, they are 100% uninsured. It’s not a risk worth taking.
A difficulty is telling the difference between the two. In some places, all that distinguishes them is the wording on the licence that’s displayed on their bumper. Not always, though.
However, if you’re actually phoning for a cab, minicabs are a very good way to get around - you’ll have a speedy service, friendly drivers, etc.
Have you a cite? I was under the impression that the licence covered all technology capable of receiving such a signal.
Wikipedia good enough?
Other cites, and indeed threads, are available.
The TV licence is a licence to own/operate TV receiving equipment.
A television itself is thought to be receiving equipment.
So you can either listen to Usram and get a fine if caught, or buy a license.
And it’s important to register your TVs as well, in preparation for the day the Parliament decides to confiscate them.
Dangerous things, those TVs. Imagine how many lives we could save if they were banned!
Come on, nowhere in that document does it mention owning a TV. It does say
which is what I said.
We could save a few lives by banning Fox News, but this ain’t the forum…
The key word is install.
Provides legal permission to install.
The paragraph after that states:
How do you install a TV?
You plug it in. That’s it. No mention of aerials.
I’d bet you any amount of money you want that if you phoned up and asked them if you need a license if you only watch dvd’s on it they’d say yes.
Of course, once you’ve got settled in w/ your telly, you’ll be able to watch the world’s best and longest running dramatic serial. Get caught up on it on this delightful site. Lucky bugger, you!
That’s it.
I tryed.
I did.
I did try…stiff upper lip and all…
But…it’s beeen days with the same title every time I open IMHO, and…I hate you.
I hate you I hate you I hate you.
Fine. Move to the UK…with your student visa…let me guess…it’s one of those that alows you to work for two years…if you’re under thirty.
Because apparently Briton needs high breated, pert bottomed, 29 or < people like you. Bt try to get in when you’re an old miserable, 35 year old, non-Nobel Prize winning, non-colonial (in the sense that one who rebeled outright doesn’t seem to count anymore…) would be immigrance and see how far it gets you!!!
Not that I’m bitter…
But just so you know, that televion tax is just made up to fool gullible foriengers…as it that driving on the wrong side of the road…don’t fall for it…
Fondly known as “Corrie”, never call it by it’s full title.
The longest running serial isn’t on TV: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/info/
Is it Corrie there? here it is Corro. I believe it has run here continuously since it started.
Meet ya at the Rovers?
If you get there first, have Shellyluv pull a half-pint for me and all! And mind that Gail’s elbows, she’ll take out your kidney!
I can tell you that in Canada it’s called Corrie by the Canadian fans I’ve met, and the five or six American fans stateside call it that as well. 
I’m ever so lucky to live in the Detroit area, (where we would go South to go to Canada), and get 2 Canadian broadcast stations. Hence I spend two hours on Sunday mornings watching an entire week of Corrie from about 10 months ago. CBC pre-empts it for just about anything, so we’ve gotten a fair bit behind the UK. I read ahead shamelessly on the above mentioned site. We used to have a very basic message board over there as well, but something ate it a couple months ago.
Sorry G-man, should have specified. But Bill Roache IS in the Guinness Book for longest-played character (or summat like that).
Ya don’t leave Corro you die
His character may as well be dead for all they give him anymore. Ken hasn’t hadd a storyline in about two years, right? Not since he smacked that skeezy kid Aiden. (and there was much rejoicing.)
If I moved to the UK, I’d get the tv licence solely for Corrie.