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Tv Licence Letter.

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  • #252
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Ah saying it's a government mouthpeice isn't really true. The prime time program and the likes of Vincent Browne have opened numerous cans of worms for governments over the years.

    Vincent Browne hasn't worked in RTE in years. Even then he was on the Radio at 10 pm. Hardly peak exposure. Apart from that, he's another guilt ridden wealthy lefty. Much the same as most in RTE.
    Very little voice given to those that oppose this left wing champagne socialism.


  • #253
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Honestly this is the age of the glorious internets.... who the hell needs a TV? :D

    Also if anyone says wheres the TV licence..... what TV? Thats so last century! :P


  • #254
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,608 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    No, it's not any more. People have all the information they need at their fingertips and a state broadcaster is not required to tell them what's good for them.
    RTE programming is actually made of of over 40 % repeats.
    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-reviews/pat-stacey-rte-is-showing-20-repeats-today-why-are-we-paying-160-a-year-for-this-31428735.html
    Is Eastenders and the Champions League public service broadcasting?
    Their News programming is heavily editorialised and frequently offer the same voices with very little opposng views.
    RTE operates for the benefit of its employees and untill they are forced to actually compete without a licence fee it will be a bloated sub-standard white elephant.
    I'd rather pay my licence fee to the BBC which is far from perfect, but it's what I listen to on the radio every morning. I don't go to RTE for news as I can't rely on it to give me a full, balanced picture.
    I have long got rid of my television

    I don't think RTE is perfect either but I think we can do better than throwing out the
    baby with the bathwater. RTE suffers from the comparison with the BBC but it's hardly a fair comparison given the size of our population. Just last night I watched a compelling documentary on RTE The Judas Iscariot Lunch about missionary priests who have left their ministry. That kind of cultural content could hardly survive in a purely commercial setup but it has a value.


  • #255
    Etnies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Etnies


    Really dont get these laws, so does it go by anything that can play TV apps like a tablet or whatever or is it ONLY a TV?


  • #256
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    elperello wrote: »
    I don't think RTE is perfect either but I think we can do better than throwing out the
    baby with the bathwater. RTE suffers from the comparison with the BBC but it's hardly a fair comparison given the size of our population. Just last night I watched a compelling documentary on RTE The Judas Iscariot Lunch about missionary priests who have left their ministry. That kind of cultural content could hardly survive in a purely commercial setup but it has a value.

    providing news and some home produced programmes isn't difficult or that expensive. RTE show no nterest in doing so. A massive part of their budget and I mean massive; is salaries and they don't seem prepared to tackle that. They know the taxpayer will have to cough for it one way or another.
    They need to be told, no more.


  • #257
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Bebo stunnah wrote: »
    Just to point out, Sky informs an Post that you've taken out a subscription with them. I had no licence for about 6 months (then again I didn't watch tv), within a week of subscribing to sky I had a letter in the door. I went in to pay for it and found out that your 1st tv licence subscription is only valid until the end of the 11th month. So if you pay for it at the end of a month you're effectively paying a years subscription and only covered for 10 months.

    Sky don't give details of their customers, in 2014 An Post requested the two most popular TV providers Sky and UPC to provide them with the details but they refused citing Data Protection concerns, the Attorney General confirmed that there would be no DP issues but they still refused to issue the details unless they were ordered to by a court or legislation. In 2015 Alex White instead proposed legislation to force them to hand over the information based on a bill passed in 2014 that forced them to, but to date nothing came of it and no legislation has been enacted.

    Also you have the 11 month rule wrong, a first licence is issued for 12 calender months starting on day 1 of the month you buy it (just like motor tax), so if you say buy at the start of the month you get 12 months, if you buy at the end of the month you get 11 months, you never get less than 11 months.


  • #258
    Bebo stunnah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Bebo stunnah


    GM228 wrote: »
    Sky don't give details of their customers, in 2014 An Post requested the two most popular TV providers Sky and UPC to provide them with the details but they refused citing Data Protection concerns, the Attorney General confirmed that there would be no DP issues but they still refused to issue the details unless they were ordered to by a court or legislation. In 2015 Alex White instead proposed legislation to force them to hand over the information based on a bill passed in 2014 that forced them to, but to date nothing came of it and no legislation has been enacted.

    Also you have the 11 month rule wrong, a first licence is issued for 12 calender months starting on day 1 of the month you buy it (just like motor tax), so if you say buy at the start of the month you get 12 months, if you buy at the end of the month you get 11 months, you never get less than 11 months.

    From my experience I received the tv licence letter before I got any postal correspondance from Sky, so unless it was my phone network listening into the call, then it had to have been that surely?


    Had to look up https://www.tvlicence.ie/homepage.htm just to make sure what I wasn't lying, or some sort of anomaly, but according to that the most you can get is 11 months, provided you pay for it on the 1st of the month.
    A First Time Television Licence is every licence not granted by way of renewal. It comes into force on the day on which it was granted and continues in force until the end of the eleventh month after the month it was granted


  • #259
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Bebo stunnah wrote: »
    From my experience I received the tv licence letter before I got any postal correspondance from Sky, so unless it was my phone network listening into the call, then it had to have been that surely?


    Had to look up https://www.tvlicence.ie/homepage.htm just to make sure what I wasn't lying, or some sort of anomaly, but according to that the most you can get is 11 months, provided you pay for it on the 1st of the month.

    No it is purely coincidental, Sky and UPC absolutely refused to share the details.

    Re-read what you quoted, it's 11 full months after the month you paid. This is as per ministerial regulation


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