Tagged TV Licence

BBC to fund Red Button removal

throngsman
News In Brief
November 25, 2015

The BBC has confirmed today that they are contractually obliged to compensate users for the removal of their superfluous ‘gizmo’ from our handsets. The £1bn scheme involves sending an engineer to every TV licence fee paying household in the UK and replacing it with a button ‘that isn’t red’. [read...]

Man caught watching Crimewatch without a TV Licence

Guest
News In Brief
March 24, 2014

‘I was just watching Crimewatch to see who they were chasing this week,’ said Bill Evans of Basingstoke, ‘and Doris, that’s the wife, said “isn’t that our front door?”. Well bugger me but just then the door flew open and Nick Ross and a load of cameramen piled into our front room. [read...]