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( HappyToast sorted on, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 8:41, archived)

Yes
Scrap the TV licence fee!
( CanonCaliber I'll laugh if you laugh, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 8:45, archived)

Oh no, they'll keep that.
That's how it works everywhere else.
/CableTVexec hate blog
( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 8:54, archived)

The BBC is now planning to force everyone with a nintendo wii to have a TV licence
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm
( CanonCaliber I'll laugh if you laugh, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:06, archived)

Are there many people
with a Nintendo Wii, but without a TV?
( Thinker actually likes George Lamb., Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:15, archived)

this was my question

( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:17, archived)

Me!

( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:46, archived)

Sky would never stand for it
they love their free money that not many people realise goes to them yet they charge people to watch anyway.
( HappyToast sorted on, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:01, archived)

Years ago Murdoch was going to refer the licence fee to the European court
But he was "paid off" by the Beeb
( CanonCaliber I'll laugh if you laugh, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:10, archived)

Interesting, how many years ago?
James Murdoch, the chief executive of BSkyB ... went on to question the licence fee that funds the BBC. He called it a "tax on the population".
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:18, archived)

It seems that Murdoch jnr has more guts than Murdoch snr
I referred to Ruport Murdoch and it would be about the time that Sky bought out British Satelite Broadcasting (late 1980's-early 1990's ?)
( CanonCaliber I'll laugh if you laugh, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:32, archived)

No
we'd lose all the regional radio stations that no-one listens to
(pdjpdj, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 9:06, archived)