Ninety-eight people between the ages of 18 and 25 were caught without a TV licence in the past year, according to new figures released by industry body TV Licensing.
This includes 47 young adults in Caerphilly town, 23 in Blackwood, 14 in Bargoed and 14 in Hengoed.
Recent research by TV Licensing shows 29% of students think TV Licensing cannot catch people watching live TV on a computer, laptop or mobile device and just over half believe that people in general are unlikely to be caught if they watch live TV without a TV Licence.
Catherine Griffith-Williams, spokeswoman for TV Licensing in Wales, said: “Every year myths circulate about when you do and don’t need a licence.
“We want to make sure students and young people know one is needed by law to watch or record live TV, on any device including a laptop, tablet, mobile phone or games console.
“A TV Licence costs on average £12.13 a month which goes towards services like Radio 1’s Big Weekend, BBC iPlayer, Newsbeat and BBC One’s Match of the Day.”
Poll tax.
Why is this piece of PR claptrap from PR firm Grayling being touted as news, people need to wake up to the corporate brainwashing being interwoven into the ‘news’… the publishers of this paper should hang their heads in shame. Pathetic.
BBC TV Licensing pay them http://www.caerphillyobserver.co.uk/advertise/
I do not condone break the law but are we really surprised? The TV licence fee is being wasted on rubbish: executives salaries, private jets, Bargain Hunt, repeats, Stacey Dooley ‘Investigates’, BBC3, £12,000 for private couples to have weddings, Radio, and most other programmes on BBC these days.
That is why I have not owned a TV for seven years, come February. I intended to ‘do without’ a TV as a temporary measure but found that I did not miss it one little bit. The Beeb used to make quality programmes, whether documentary or sit-com, but what we get now is cheaply made dross. News and current affairs programmes are based on the views held by the Kensington and Chelsea set.
Young people, don’t talk to strangers, especially those claiming to be from tv licensing. They are just door-to-door salespeople and have no more power than jehovas when they come knocking at your door.
Say nothing, really, you’ll be fine.
Let’s just get to the basics here. The TV licence is a tax and it needs to be scrapped. The BBC should receive a minor amount of funding from the government for providing a truly unbiased, factual news service with all other activities funded on a commercial basis.
I would not mind the government paying large amounts to a public service broadcaster, so long as the programmes were better than the rubbish made now. I quite like watching TV with no adverts, though ‘Sky Plus’ has ameliorated this to some extent, viewers normally record and fast forward the adverts.
It’s the people who work in the BBC that need sorting out. Both on radio and TV we find presenters and announcers performing all sorts of verbal contortions to try and pronounce, non-Euopean, foreign names correctly (played on with great comic effect with the portrayal of newscaster Angela Rippon on, I think, ‘Not the Nine O’Clock News’ in the 1980’s) Yet manage to mangle the pronunciation of Welsh place names and even English ones.
As for European names they make no attempt, ever, to pronounce places such as Paris, Cologne, Munich or Copenhagen in the same way as the inhabitants of these places do. Apparently courtesy of pronunciation by the BBC is ony to be extended to far flung parts of the world, not Britain or the rest of Europe.
Another annoyance is the BBC prefix of ‘So called’ every time they mention IS. There is nothing ‘so called’ about it. That is its proper name, or one of them as there have been several. As the BBC would put it, “Rant over by So Called Richard Williams.”
The way the courts dispense TV Licensing “justice” on autopilot, there’s a very fair chance that many of those convicted didn’t actually do anything wrong at all. Their only crime is to have made the mistake of communicating/co-operating/trusting TV Licensing when challenged to buy a TV licence they probably had no legal need for. That’s the crux of the matter.
Good advice from jasperpepper below: Anyone who doesn’t legally need a TV licence has no business with the pariahs at TV Licensing at all. They are strongly advised to ignore TV Licensing completely. Do not fall for TV Licensing’s bull, because they have no scruples at all about how they get the desired “result”.
I am enlightened by your posts. I always cooperated fully with these people, answering “No I don’t own a TV”, which happens to be true as it went up the council dump. If ever they communicate again I will ignore them.