When the TV licence was £1!

by Delicious_Bet_8546

13 comments

  1. Inflation adjusted to £29.98 in Dec ’24.

    Also, this is a radio licence. It specifically says **EXCLUDING TELEVISION** at the top.

  4. That is a wireless telegraphy licence but excluding TV. It says so in the picture. So, a radio licence?

  5. I can’t update my post. But yeah I missed the fact that this isn’t actually a TV licence 😂 still cool tho

  6. I don’t remember a separate radio licence, but I’m pretty sure for TV it was cheaper if you only had a black and white? (Which we did for several years, watching snooker was not a great experience!)

    I vaguely remember a dog licence as well, it was some really symbolic amount like 12½p or something? And I think you only bought it once? Must have been gone by the early to mid 80s.

    Edit: it was 37½p!! That was it! And it was done away with in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_licence (under United Kingdom)

  7. Honest question: why so much hatred for the tv license? 

    I moved to the UK 5 years ago and pay the tv license because my understanding is that it helps the BBC, and I really enjoy a lot of the BBC content. 

    So in my case what’s the difference between the tv license and paying for a streaming service? 

  10. Do people still geniunely pay TV licence? Never paid it.

  11. I remember with my mom going to the post office to buy it. I think it was that or post off a postal order (which you had to get from the post office anyway)

  13. NO POLITICS!

    Apart from this specific issue for some reason.

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