Tv Licence

[pinstripe]

Do you need a TV licence if you use a radio or computer?

[FrogNog]

no you don't, however if you use your computer to stream live TV you do need a licence.
If you only watch catch up TV you don't.

[Canary42]

No and Yes respectively (assuming you use computer to watch live TV.

[Zacs-Master]

Have a look here.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one?WT.ac=home_plt_check

[Baldric]

You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on-demand services, like those on YouTube. However, some television websites – like iPlayer and ITV Player – offer live TV as well as on-demand TV. If anyone on your premises watches live TV, they’ll need to be covered by a TV Licence.

[stuey]

How do the authorities check that you have a TV license or not?

[Captain2]

If your address doesn't have a paid TV licence on record Stuey they hound you to death with letters. I once went 10 years without a TV and there are only so many ways you can reply politely to them to say you haven't got a TV!

[stuey]

That sounds slightly "Big Brotherish", Captain2.

[Captain2]

Oh yes, stuey - flippin' annoying

[Old_Geezer]

I use both, and they still insist I buy a licence for the TV :-(

[Old_Geezer]

Oh yes Capt'
Persecution is part of their fun.
Best to bin & ignore.

[EDDIE51]

You can make an online declaration that you do not need a TV licence
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/how-to-tell-us-you-dont-watch-tv-top12
Once you do this they only write to you once every 2 years to check you still do not need one, but they can call and check that you really do not need one.

[Hopkirk]

The whole thing is becoming increasingly unworkable.

Somethings got to change.

[nailit]

Ive not had one for years. Tell them to do one if they come knocking at your door. Nowt they can do about it.

[nailit]

Whats going to happen if EVERYONE refused to buy a TV lisence? Are they going to switch your tv off?

[yogi-bear]

As baldric mentions if you thinking of watching live tv on the computer via BBC i player or ITV player then yes you would need one BUT if you watch programmes, say an hour later than broadcast, then you dont need a licence at all and can watch what you like on the catch up on demand service. Listening to radio doesn't require a licence.

[nailit]

//Once you do this they only write to you once every 2 years to check you still do not need one,//
They write to me every 2 years EDDIE, and every 2 years I tell them that they can check on me if they show wish and that I am indeed viewieng live tv but its up to them to prove it. They have no right of way into my flat.

[EDDIE51]

^^ so you are admitting that you are committing an offence nalit?
Do they not keep sending people to knock on your door?

[nailit]

//Do they not keep sending people to knock on your door?// They knocked once years ago and I told them they werent snooping around my home so dont bother coming back. They tried their best to get into my home but I knew that they didnt have any rights in law to access my home. Havnt been back since.

[Hopkirk]

I refer to my previous answer, confirmed by nailit.