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Why are iPlayer viewers exempt from the TV licence?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

iPlayer (not 43) There was a chap from TV Licensing on BBC Breakfast this morning, reminding Britain’s small business owners that they owed his employers £142.50 if they wanted to watch live TV on their computers at work.

“How you can possibly enforce that?” asked the BBC man, somewhere in between the 96 daily reminders of how you can watch BBC News online. “We can and we will,” was the gist of the not particularly convincing reply. Still, it’s nice to see that, just as small businesses are putting the worst of the recession flames out, TV Licensing wants to open another can of petrol.

But why pick on small businesses? During his convoluted explanation of what you can and can’t do, the enforcer explained that you don’t need to buy a licence to watch BBC programmes on iPlayer after they are broadcast.

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TV Licence to kill (time)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I renewed my TV licence online last night, and was pleasantly surprised to discover the option to receive my new licence via email. That must surely qualify for a discount, I thought to myself, having saved the TV Licensing people the postage and printing costs, only to have my dreams of a 50p discount crushed when arriving at the payment screen.

And just to prove TV Licensing really haven’t got a handle on this interweb thingy, I got the following message after I’d stumped up my £139.50:

“Once your transaction has been processed and accepted a new TV Licence will be emailed to you within 3 working days”