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| 1441.1 | was high enough in the 80's. | CTHQ::COADY | | Thu Dec 01 1994 15:16 | 13 |
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I don;t have up-to-date data (its been almost 10 yrs since I lived
there), but at that time the %% people in Ireland paying the TV
licience was high; like in the 70%+.
The law was fairly strictly enforced, including (if I remember
correctly), the fact that all TV's sold were notified to a government
body. Also they had the "TV serach vans" that were very active in the
cities.
No idea if its better or worse now.
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| 1441.2 | the ex-telly engineer | KERNEL::BARTHUR | | Fri Dec 02 1994 09:41 | 19 |
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Every postcode in the UK is held in a database and checked regularly to
match a licence to the postcode. If you don't have one, expect the
knock on the door from the "authorities" who in reality are your local
postmen working overtime.
Every TV that is rented or bought new has a form sent off to the
company that administers the database.
So the thing to do is not buy a new telly or rent one, including video
equipment.
I'd tell you who the company is but they use our 5900 machines running
Ultrix for their records.
Hopefully it won't be long before this bastion of "establishment" (it
is the BBC which takes the licence fee) becomes impractical to collect.
Like the radio tax.
If you don't want to pay a licence fee, you have to prove the equipment
is incapable of receiving UHF channels. Which would be easy to do these
days.
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| 1441.3 | Those TV inspectors in their Amazing Machines! | ESSB::KILBANE | | Fri Dec 02 1994 09:49 | 18 |
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Approx. 90% of households have T.V. licences now which is probably the highest
% it's ever been. The licence costs 62 punts and is cheaper than the UK
equivelent.
The TV. Licence vans with their amazing "detection devices" were a joke
and are now probably languishing in some RTE warehouse with all those
"Leave it to Mrs O'Brien" and cr*ppy Gerry Ryan Show tapes.
I can recall a hilarious TV licence ad campaign in the 70's involving
this family who were ostracised by their community because they did not have
one. Very Hitchcock with amplified footsteps of the TV Inspector on his merry
way, on the soundtrack.
rgds
Des.
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