Fury as TV licence fee shake-up could see viewers forced to pay – even if they only watch Netflix

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fury-tv-licence-fee-shake-up-viewers-forced-pay-netflix/

Posted by mrman08

37 comments

  1. >The move is just one of many options being considered by ministers to help with funding, according to Bloomberg.

    So just an idea. Not something slated to be implemented.

  2. I mean, both Netflix and Amazon have moved into showing some live TV so I guess that would put them under the same umbrella as the BBC.

  4. And how exactly would they police this?

    Logging in to iPlayer prompts you to log in, proving that you have a license, but somehow I can’t imagine Netflix or Amazon adding such a restriction.

  5. As others have said, this is just one of many possibilities in the mix as part of a wider conversation about license fee reform. People are getting worked up about nothing.

  6. Click bait. It won’t happen.

    Why don’t they add commercials like many public broadcasters do in Europe?

  8. So long as they get rid of the absurd criminalization of people, and the separate payment and ‘enforcement’ system, I don’t really care.
    Pretty much any other means of paying would be better.

  10. Fury by who? People don’t pay now and no one does anything. This is just a suggestion. A suggestion that someone might get a letter they can ignore without consequence.

  12. The licensing take is haemorrhaging cash as people are cancelling TV licenses – they are happy just to watch on demand services and not watch live/linear broadcast TV. This isnt just younger generations, its older ones too.

    Frankly i haven’t watched live/broadcast TV in years now (nor iplayer content either) and I don’t miss it one bit. I get all the content I need from on demand services and news websites give me access to news. I give the TV license people their yearly declaration that I dont need a license and they have never bothered me.

    The problem is the more people that do that, the less ~~tax~~ license fee they bring in, which means the powers that be have to change the rules now. So it will move to ‘if you own a telly and watch anything other than DVD’s/BlueRay or local content you now need a license’

    And then people will just shift to using radarr/sonarr/plex and tank the streaming services revenues too.

  13. Wirlth the recent news of another netflix price hike i will be cancelling that too.

  15. Because they know the BBC is losing viewers every day, they are now going to charge us when we watch better stuff elsewhere. Although I don’t watch live TV or have a Netflix subscription, I suspect anything that has moving pictures on a flat screen will be next.

  16. No, Ive just stopped paying, im not giving money to an organisation, that defends and houses paedophiles!

  18. What people watch on live TV that is actually a quality content that is worth time and money

  19. What? Do people even still pay tv licence. I don’t know anyone who still pays for that rubbish.

  20. Labour is going to make BBC being hated as same as how NHK is being hated among all households in Japan…

  22. If everyone just stopped paying for the license, there’s not a lot the bbc can do about it.

  24. And yet I can watch the BBC free in the US, makes sense to me

  26. The license fee is absolute bull.

    Subscribe or run ads, the licence is dead, nobody is gonna pay it.

  29. Yarrrrrr🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

  30. I don’t care. I don’t pay the bbc and I never will. They can send the Amazon rainforest through my letterbox monthly. They all go straight to landfill. Unopened.

  31. They can do what they like – the police won’t enforce and so no one (including you, reader) will have to let them in to check whether you’re watching TV or not.

  32. If we all just say nor not happening there isn’t enough inspectors to deal with everyone and there definitely isn’t enough courts to deal with us all, but we are British so we won’t we will just moan on social media

  34. Won’t happen unless it’s a top up on top of the licence fee then I can see the government adding stealth tax like this

  35. Won’t happen unless it’s a top up on top of the licence fee then I can see the government adding stealth tax like this

  36. They should just make it a tv and internet licence and be done. It would be easy to enforce because they could actually shut off your internet.

    We used to make lots of fantastic TV – only fools and horses, porridge, blackadder, documentaries that weren’t just some celebrity screeching into the camera.

    We still make good stuff, just not enough of it. We need to properly fund TV so that it can be risk taking, educational and all the good stuff we used to get.

  37. Licence fee is dead… soon to come will be an additional charge on Internet providers (probably per connection) that gets passed to end users. Expect about £200 annually on every landline & mobile.

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