Thousands ‘cancelling’ BBC TV Licence ahead of April’s change

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-cancelling-bbc-tv-licence-30986208

by Fox_9810

27 comments

  1. These idiots spammed this article last week too. It’s just a lie for clickbait.

  2. if I look at who owns all the streaming services, I am more ever more thankful for the BBC.

  3. My heart goes out to Capita, a beautiful British institution

  4. My favorite kind of journalism: copying and pasting five tweets and then putting the word “thousands” in the headline with no source to back it up…  

  5. I am curious how much the BBC spends on sending out threatening letters and occasional enforcers, although I have yet to experience that. I get about a letter a month, and before anyone says you can just tell them you don’t need one, I did, and it was 3 months before I started getting the letters again, this time with my name on it. Although they have reverted back to the legal occupier again.

  6. I look to who is most keen to see the BBC defunded and I am refreshed in my desire to see it properly funded and maintained. The left and right both shriek shrilly about bias and propaganda from the news, so that’ll do for me.

    There’s plenty which is paid for by tax which we can claim not to use, that’s just the nature of the system in a country. Keeping the BBC’s funding out of the wider pool helps to maintain standards and independence, but it’s still a collective responsibility of, and benefit to, the country.

  7. I tried posting about cancelling mine on one sub and it got deleted.

    Democracy and FOS are all subject to in-tent consensus, it seems, while everyone knows that in a tent full of idiots, there’s always room for at least one more…

  8. I will be on the moon before I ever pay for a TV licence.

  9. every day of trump makes me thankful for the BBC

    you let money men own the media, you get musk and murdoch not lord reith

  10. We need to block the ‘placename+live’ style websites they are useless clickbait farms, a long way from journalism

  11. Sure, you can stop buying a TV Licence but the BBC is not a subscription service so you can’t ‘cancel’ a TV Licence. Lazy journalism.

  12. BBC won’t be getting a penny of my money for all their sanewashing of US politics. Not a chance.

  13. I’ve not paid mine for over a decade, I don’t miss live TV, or BBC iplayer. If they had anything worth watching I might be tempted to pay, but not at what they are charging. Also if I wanted to watch a BBC show I would get family to record it on either dvd or vhs and then watch it legally.

  14. Am I missing something or is the only change the price rising by a whole £5 per annum? The pension credit thing was already baked in since it was cut for over 75s

    I do not and will not pay it to begin with, but if you already have and use it, cancelling over a fiver is ridiculous

    Article headline made it sound like some update to the law akin to requiring it for watching YouTube or something like has already been floated

  15. Am I missing something, or is the ‘new rule’ that the price is going up?

  16. Cancelled mine 10 years ago. Not even close to being worth it.

  17. Yeah, need a licence for my tv, you know incase i improperly use it an kill someone.

  18. I got no issue with the TV license as it provides content I want and BBC radio 6 is a broadcast I listen to every day an I don’t ever want that to go.

  19. Hope they do. On a side note, that old Sky remote brings back childhood memories!

  20. Not paid in over 10 years. Glad more people are coming to their senses.

  21. the more cancel, the quicker it’ll collapse for the rest of us.

  22. The BBC genuinely makes my life better and more informed, with its self reflection & balance. It isn’t perfect but my word we cannot lose it.

  23. I’m not saying there is one, but the idea that the BBC is impartial is demonstrably wrong.

  24. Ahhh yes the annual “report” of TV licence evaders not renewing their TV tax to fund pedophiles, push elasticated agendas as they see fit, ideologies and propaganda

    It’s not ahead of the April rises, it’s the same shit year on year, fuck the BBC

  25. Hopefully they can’t afford to have eastenders anymore that stereotypes the working class.

  27. Where are paedophiles going to find well-paid work if the BBC goes under?

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