Another top Gear incident?

MarkMas

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CatmanV2 said:
Seems pretty clear

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence/

You used to need a TV licence merely for having a telly, but now those who only watch certain channels on catch-up can get away without paying the £157.50 annual fee. If you watch BBC iPlayer, you'll need a licence, but you won't for other channels' catch-up services. Confused? Don't be. This full guide will take you through whether you should be paying or not.

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Seems pretty clear "If you watch TV as it's being broadcast you need a TV licence – on any device"
 
Felonious Crud

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Gazcw said:
So they should do that and stop taking a licence fee. And don't start me on BBC news!
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But it's not an either / or, is it? Revenues from selling content wouldn't plug the £3.8bn gap from the loss of license fee revenue. They could ditch the license fee and sell advertising, like the commercial broadcasters do, I suppose, but people would only complain.

But it's a government decision. I suggest a strongly worded letter to the DCMS. Or the Daily Mail.
 
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Felonious Crud said:
They could ditch the license fee and sell advertising, like the commercial broadcasters do, I suppose, but people would only complain.
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Then you'd have a licence fee and advertising, the government wouldn't allow no licence at all , too much money involved , a bit like the moaners who want VED putting on the fuel price because they only go to asda and back when all it does is really hit somebody on minimum wage who needs a car to get to work
 
CatmanV2

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MarkMas said:
Seems pretty clear "If you watch TV as it's being broadcast you need a TV licence – on any device"
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And therefore buying a licence is optional. No one is forced to watch TV as it's being broadcast, or even forced to watch TV!

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Wack61 said:
Then you'd have a licence fee and advertising, the government wouldn't allow no licence at all , too much money involved , a bit like the moaners who want VED putting on the fuel price because they only go to asda and back when all it does is really hit somebody on minimum wage who needs a car to get to work
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I said "They could ditch the license fee and sell advertising", which would mean there would be no license fee.

BUT the commercial broadcasters wouldn't like that as it would dilute finite ad spend across more broadcasting platforms which are already suffering as more and more ad spend is going to Google, Facebook and the like. They would claim that the BBC was set up as an impartial media outlet and selling advertising is totally against what the BBC is all about, and they'd have less revenue coming in. They could save money by cutting back on staff, focusing more on replacing revenues with content production (ITV is doing this very well), and reducing spend in many other areas. It would be a bad thing, overall.
 
BennyD

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Apparently the guy who owns the Diablo also owns the F40. He’s well known in the Supercar world around these parts.
 
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A 90's Supercar , with fat cold tyres loses control on a Yorkshire Moor road! Who'd have thunk it?!?!?!?!
 
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lifes2short said:
you would need your head examined if you ever agreed to loan your pride and joy to the top gear mob especially as we can all see how they treat cars with no respect
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They probably don't do it on purpose, Its just the way film company's work
Its as if they encourage the guys to trash the cars for the entertainment point of view

Dave
 
safrane

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Think the joke us in you if you loan them a car to drive.

Harry Metcalf loaned them his Lambi for display purpose only and I suspect he was far more clued up on how to restrict use to what he would be happy with... far more thant the poor sap who owned this Diablo.
 
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