Domino

No matey its you that needs to understand that you are advertising and condoning THEFT because it suits your small world mind.
Must get my daily fix of Corrie, must see the footy.
Fancy going to Australia just to check out internet companies that STEAL other people's property.

And you will find that many UK products in Australia are imported at high priced premiums, in preference to more local ASEA produced products of because of the small world minded attitude the Aussie expats live in.
But that is changing and they don't like it, but they can't afford it.

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Domino

I recently bought from C&A, but then they pulled out of the UK
So do you go home to buy or use the internet - as none of those companies advertise on UKTV that much (they all use magazine advertising) your decisions aren't based on TV time.

Yes there are people watching Asian TV, but then that is aimed for them, although they still need a separate (and larger) dish from Sky, which they also have.

Obviously you are getting your fill of English drama in the rain filled Iberia at the moment, and it may well get worse not better

Chiclanagir

All these companies do advertise on UK tv regularly. I buy both on the internet for delivery either to Spain or the UK if I am planning a trip over.

Possibly no UK TV could result in murder in our particular household with Sky Sports dominating! But that is another thread. Does being 24/7 with your partner drive you to crime!!!

Domino

I will let you know, at the moment she works 5 days a week


but the tv doesn't come on until about 5.30 and is usually off by 11, 11.30

even in the pouring rain there is something to do here, just we have to walk up the hill to get to it.

BAT7311

the ENTIRE basis of my bizness is that using EX-PAT for example (and i dont ) is that allows you to get round geo-location .which on the new judgment in europe has been declared 100 % LEGAL
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/d...cp110102en.pdf
so expat is QUITE LEGAL to use

HOW EVER ...FILMON go and NICK something belonging to ITV and FLOG it to the public ,and after the new ruling that is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE 10 years in HMP and UNLIMITED fine ANYWHERE in the 27 and those that say ´´they dont pay for it´´ well i had to take ADBLOCK off my system for FILMON as everytime you change channel you get a 30 second ADVERT where NONE of the money raised is sent to the compnay showing the program that follows

BAT7311

[QUOTE=Saxy;10592680] people always fall into this trap....the TV TAX is collected by the UK government as is your ROAD TAX and any other TAX they can think of .FULL STOP
The BBC is FUNDED by the UK government .there is no direct connection between them

but i am happy for to agree that no one should watch BBC in europe (as we dont pay the licence fee in the uk) but PLEASE no britsih cars or lorries in EUROPE as i havent seen anyone paying spanish road tax to drive here ...

Saxy

Oh dear there you go again, and again you're wrong. You see, I like to help people out, and as they are worried about losing satellite viewing, I'm showing them the alternatives, and in case you didn't read post 48, the UK commercial viewers pay nothing, so by your reckoning, they are stealing!!!

I see that you are a clairvoyant and think you know my viewing habits, well let's see. When you say Corrie, I presume you mean Coronation Street. That is amazingly cleaver, I did see that when I was at my future in-laws house, let me see, that must be 1965. I really must see if I can catch up on ITV Player! Football? again I did watch it on the box, when it was played without all of the diving, that must have been in the '60s as well. Now I do enjoy a good drama. On ITV of course
I seam to have spent too much on here this last couple of days and I've neglected some of my hobbies... 'The Follies' show troupe, who put on shows for charity, Bonalba Flat Green Bowls, Archery, and I should mention playing R&B tenor sax at The Rock Bar Frontera, San Juan, Alicante, Thursday nights (you should come along and meet some of my Spanish musician friends. We start playing at 00.30 am).
Yes I did go to Oz to see the family, prices are very high, but so are the wages!! The music scene is pretty good though, and I used to sit in on sax with a brilliant band - 'Muma Janes Blues Band', check 'em out!

OK, you can all wake up now, I've finished. What do you mean "Thank God"

Saxy

[QUOTE=BAT7311;10593657] Let me see, I can't get my head round this:
The TV TAX is collected by the UK government i.e. the licence? and the BBC is funded by the UK government, but there is no direct connection between them
WHAT!!!!!

Oh I see what you mean, the money is collected by one government department and the BBC gets payed by another government department. Of course it is

agoreira

So a few expats buying a jar of marmite once a year is hardly likely to swell the coffers of the advertisers. I think you grossly overestimate the expat spend on British goods, they aren't really interested in you.

Dxf

Hi

It is not necessarily about the advertisers; it is about pay per view. How much would someone pay to watch popular programs - soaps / dramas / sporting events etc???

Davexf

agoreira

I don't watch any of those, so no expert, but aren't they BBC programmes? I said people that can't live without ITV need to get out more. I watch very little TV, certainly no soaps or reality rubbish, but the BBC is still capable of producing some good TV, especially wildlife. Enjoyed the Wild Arabia programme last night.

Domino

[QUOTE=BAT7311;10593657] [QUOTE=Saxy;10593672] OH DEAR _ MORE DISINFORMATION

Fred is right, and again you are wrong.
The TV licence is charged to every household in the land for the privilege of watching Television - not for watching the BBC (some may remember the days when you had to pay for a licence to have a radio in your car )

The income from the TV Licence goes in its entirety to the BBC to carry out its remit of providing public service media programmes.
The UK Govt no longer touches a penny, under a recent alteration they no longer sit in the middle and dole out the pennies. They used to make a special payment to the BBC to fund BBC World Service, but this cost is now paid fully by the BBC in return for their having the total income from the licence fee,
The licence fee collection is outsourced to Capita by the BBC. In the same way as Capita collect the London Charge for driving through the city.

But whilst we are all in Spain we don't pay any licence fee, and get the full benefit of the BBC's resources - which is why they use IP location blockers to stop you - and I - from listening or viewing things that are only programmed for the UK.

BAT7311

reading this it says the money is first put into the government bank account and then the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
gives it to the BBC (all of it??) maybe someone can read it better then me .... but i smell a bit of smoke and daily mail here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televis...United_Kingdom

what shocked me was the 100 million to collect the tax !!!! or an i missreading it again ???

BLIMY read this !!
BBC World News and the BBC's other international television channels are operated commercially and will continue to not receive licence fee money. The revenues they generate supplement the licence fee in financing the UK services.
SO THOSE OF US IN SPAIN PAY A SUBSIDY FOR UK RESIDENTS TO WATCH THEIR TV !!!!!!!

Saxy

[QUOTE=Domino;10594994][QUOTE=BAT7311;10593657]

The monies paid for a TV licence in the UK. pays for BBC broadcasting only.
A commercial television Broadcast Licence is controlled by Offcom. This is a licence paid for by commercial companies. There is no contribution from the viewers UK licence fee towards this!
My previous comment, still applies, that by your reckoning, people who don't pay for commercial programs are stealing them. So that must also include UK viewers!

My post 68, if you read it properly, was a tongue in cheek explanation of post 66 by BAT731
Do try and keep up!

Domino

[QUOTE=Saxy;10595333][QUOTE=Domino;10594994] WRONG AGAIN

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

This is a licence to do something i.e. to receive television transmissions. That the income derived from that licence goes to the BBC is a decision made many years ago. But it is NOT a licence to only watch BBC - that one was put to bed many years ago in several court cases.
The charge when it goes to court is the use of unlicenced television receiving equipment.

Commercial television and radio stations pay a licencing fee to enable them to transmit on the airwaves. What the Govt of the day do with that income either directly or via their agency OFCOM is their business.

Any one who takes without permission BBC or commercial television transmissions live and re-transmits them - irrespective of the media used for that re-transmission is committing THEFT.

If an expat should move his satellite dish a couple of mm this way or that and picks up a transmission aimed at the UK then good luck to him. But if someone should then adjust the broadcast beam and he loses that signal then quite honestly TOUGH. They were getting something for nothing.
If same expat pays for a re-transmission feed from someone who isnt paying the originator for the transmission then that is theft and handling of stolen property, no matter how much or little he is paying.

Wriggle all you like - your condoning theft is the same as theft itself.
Wonder what your friends on the bowling green would think of you