Comments on: Thin of skin, foil of tin

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:11:00 +0000

Aye, the pictures are better on the radio, so they say.

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:55:00 +0000

Why does the guy who doesn’t watch TV have a TV license? These people are true eccentrics

By: Jasper Milvain

Jasper Milvain — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:43:00 +0000

Actually, I’m told TV Licensing can be awkward buggers if you’re blind. There’s an obligation to admit inspectors if you don’t have a licence, which is none too onerous normally but tricky if you can’t see ID; and unlike the gas and electricity people they won’t agree door passwords. (It ‘takes away the element of surprise’, apparently, which a series of letters apparently doesn’t.)

The woman who explained this to me has yet to be visited by an inspector, though, and is rather looking forward to it. She reckons the court case will be hilarious.

By: Marcus Pinto

Marcus Pinto — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:35:00 +0000

From the TV Licensing guys themselves:

"The blind concession is 50% off the full TV Licence fee, so you'll pay £60.50 for a colour licence and £20.25 for a black and white TV Licence."

Presumably if you decide you only need black rather than the full black-and-white, you get even more of a discount.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:22:00 +0000

Our TV licence is in my wife’s maiden name, which meant that when I bought our last two tellies, I automatically got letters from the TV licensing people wondering why I didn’t appear to own one (shops report all TV sales to them, it seems).

In both cases, I ignored the letters – and heard nothing more.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:39:00 +0000

I can understand people complaining about harassment from the TV Licensing Agency (or whatever they are called), but to blame this on the BBC is pretty shortsighted. The license chasing is done by a subsidiary of Capita, who I’m sure are paid a pretty penny for their efforts. Have a go at Capita if you don’t like threatening letters, but leave the BBC alone.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 07:27:00 +0000

If Biased BBC don’t receive grants from Murdoch, then they are particularly poor capitalists.