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Do You Need A Tv License For Radio

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HongKongphooey | 09:35 Tue 09th Feb 2016 | Civil
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Do you need a TV license for listening to the Radio online. I don't have a TV.
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You don't need one for listening over the air either.
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Thanks guys, i listen at work in our office while I'm doing my work and was getting worried when we had a letter from TV licensig.
Make a declaration the you do not need a TV licence by going to this web site
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence
Unless you do this they just keep on and on sending reminders. Once they get this the reminders stop, but they may (not likely though) come round to check.
I don't know if it's still in force, but there used to be an issue with listening to Commercial Radio Stations in Offices, because of the paying of Royalties to artists - depending on the number of people who can hear it.

Have a read of this

http://absoluteradio.co.uk/legal/listening-at-work/
You are asking only part of the correct question, because playing music in a workplace is still covered by the Performing Rights people. A workplace normally requires a PRS licence, but there are few concessions (for your employer) if the music is played, one of which is the following: -

"Personal portable devices - Where music is only used in the workplace by individual employees or workers solely by means of personal portable devices (such as MP3 players) with headphones. Any music must only be audible to the employee or worker to whom the personal portable device belongs through a headset attached to that device and not to any other individual in the workplace."

So individual headphones only

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