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Is it almost the end for black and white televisions? Just 11,500 households still have licenseā¦(UK)
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| 13:38 EST, 5 January 2014
| Chris Brooke
Posted on 01/05/2014 6:38:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
I remember when my parents finally got color TV, close to the last ones in my neighborhood.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:08:56 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: madison10; TaxPayer2000
Germany too.
I assume most European countries do as well.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:09:27 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
To: madison10
Is it any wonder we started shooting at them?
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:12:10 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom. Period.)
To: madison10
the license fees pay for the BBC, which means it is vastly wealthy, radical left and inefficient as all get out
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:13:15 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: JohnBrowdie
I don’t think its a way to fund TV though. Its a stupid thing
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:13:48 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: cripplecreek
I bought my first color TV around 2000, a 13 incher, it was more TV than I needed and I don’t have television, but I do watch some youtube on it, oddly enough, mostly back and white youtube offerings.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:13:48 PM PST
by
ansel12
( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:14:10 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
("The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819)
To: sickoflibs
Ok, I’ll join in -—
I was 12 yrs old (1979) when we got our first color TV...a humongo console thing, which also happened to have a REMOTE CONTROL. Be still my heart.... we were all that and a bag o’chips for awhile.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:15:05 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: Olog-hai
I would pay $100 per year for a TV license if and only if it eliminated advertisements.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:17:16 PM PST
by
Fzob
(Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
They tax EVERYTHING in GB. You wouldnt believe the cost of a pint of bitter and a pack of smokes. Last trip through London, a pint was $14/American. That was 2006. I don't smoke, so can't tell you how much those were......
$14 for a pint of WARM beer. Blecch.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:18:34 PM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: sickoflibs
We had B&W until about 1971. Bought a new Zenith 19” in color at that time. Damned thing was in the shop more than we watched it.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:19:00 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Ah! The TV Detectng Van.
Now I know where Monty Python’s Cat Detectng Van came from.
To: Gamecock
I assume most European countries do as well. Belgium, France, Netherlands don't require a TV license. Can't speak to any other EU country.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:20:19 PM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: umgud
Good old black and whites huh?! Old days: “Hey honey, on yer way in to the kitchen to grab me another beer, adjust the horizontal...the damn picture is rollin’ again”!!!
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:20:22 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
To: workerbee
RE :”
I was 12 yrs old (1979) when we got our first color TV...a humongo console thing, which also happened to have a REMOTE CONTROL. Be still my heart.... we were all that and a bag ochips for awhile.” Holy crap!
My dad finally got us one in 1970 and I remember telling the teacher in school all excited and some of the other kids laughed because they got one years earlier in the 1960s.
It had a remote too.
Hell, we got cable TV in 1976 when it first came through. Dad didnt want to pay for us to go out to see movies anymore,
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:21:40 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: madison10
You need a license in Britain to have a TV? Thats weird.I don't know if they still do it, but the used to have truck drive around looking for TV signal emissions from houses so they could bust unlicensed owners.
Sounds pretty Big Brother.
Weird rules require weird enforcement.
To: sickoflibs
LOL, I don’t think our area even had access to cable TV until the early ‘80s...? Even so, if you knew my dad, you’d know why we were “latecomers” to certain technologies. Yeah... I can laugh now... but only cuz I’m married to a techie software guy LOL!
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:25:55 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
IIRC, it’s because if someone heard something “offensive” he would get a complaint filed against him and this lose his license.
If you tweet something offensive you also risk fines.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:25:56 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: okie01
The British TV license funds BBC.You pay for BBC whether you watch it or not.
It's the same thing as your cable TV bill in the States, except a hell of a lot cheaper. And BBC has some excellent programming.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:26:06 PM PST
by
EricT.
(ARBEIT MACHT FREI- now get back to work you taxpaying peasant!)
To: Fzob
Do we 80 channels of PBS?
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:26:49 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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