“Can he watch the games on telly?”
Yes, providing he has paid the government for his license to own a telly.
They still do that?
In Israel, you can own a telly, but you have to pay to get plugged in to the networks. I thought that was how it worked in the UK, too. Doesn’t matter. Whatever I want to see, I can get on the Internet.
No, bk - in the UK you pay a monthly or yearly charge for owning a TV. This is used to fund the public broadcasting channels.
This generally was a good thing as you get some exquisite public programming on the BBC.
It went wrong when the BBC tried to get public popular and political.
I still think it is good - look at the Oceans TV program created by the BBC - the cost of that wouldn’t be normally undertaken by private money.
But needs reform