{"id":424057,"date":"2025-09-14T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:04:14","slug":"tv-licence-cool-fm-chief-stuart-robinson-on-why-he-doesnt-pay-my-beef-is-not-with-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424057\/","title":{"rendered":"TV licence: Cool FM chief\u00a0Stuart Robinson on why he doesn\u2019t pay: \u2018My beef is not with the BBC&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Content director Stuart Robinson says people shouldn\u2019t pay fee if they don\u2019t watch live TV or use the iPlayer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cool FM chief Stuart Robinson with BBC presenter Barra Best\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b558389b-7d28-4566-ba3c-801f8faabe61.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cool FM chief Stuart Robinson with BBC presenter Barra Best<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cool FM\u2019s Stuart Robinson has defended not having a TV licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 46-year-old station content director told the BBC\u2019s State of Us podcast: \u201cPeople say \u2018How can you not have a licence?\u2019. It\u2019s easy. I still get all the news. I saw this podcast on social media, where I don\u2019t need a licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content director Stuart Robinson says people shouldn\u2019t pay fee if they don\u2019t watch live TV or use the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115203504422907528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}