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Ban TV Licence Fee

Submitted on Saturday 17th March 2012

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Ban TV Licence Fee

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The Government should force the BBC to scrap the Licence Fee and accept advertising. A lot of TV is subscription based now giving viewers a CHOICE of whether to subscribe or not. The Licence Fee is an ENFORCED UNFAIR TAX, whether you want to watch BBC or not, and should be scrapped forthwith.

UK households receiving pay vs free TV on their main TVs
Free 50.4% {13,033,440} viewers Total, Freesat, Freesat from Sky, Freeview, analogue terrestrial TV

Pay 49.6% {12,826,560} viewers Total
Sky TV, Smallworld Cable, TalkTalk TV, Top Up TV, Virgin Media, Wightcable

UK households by broadcast/reception system on their main TVs
Terrestrial (free) 47.6% {12,300,000} viewers, Analogue terrestrial, Freeview

Cable (pay) 12.0% {3,100,000} viewer total
Smallworld Cable, Virgin Media, Wightcable

So why are we still paying this Fee, that goes up every year, When i'm already paying £23 pm for my TV service. That comes into my house via cable.


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