Nelson Mandela funeral - can we have the BBC back now.

[matty40s]

.....from 10pm last Thursday 5th December the BBC has been wall to wall coverage of this event/wake/funeral. The live updates of the flooding on the East Coast were pulled 15 minutes after the announcement of his passing and since then there have been specials, programmes moved and cancelled and the top 1/3rd of the BBC News Home page has been filled with it ever since.

Live coverage of queues, car processions, every man and his dog giving tributes, stadium concerts and a free demonstration of sign language in goldfish language.

Priceless for me was Camerons face when signing the book of condolence live when he realised that his name wasn't first in the book and he looked to see if he could squeeze his bit above the existing entries.

Yes, he was a great man, but the BBC's coverage has been ridiculously over the top.

 

 

[bottle]

Never saw any of it.

 

I take it he died on the 5^th then

Edited December 15, 2013 by bottle

[Paul C]

There's plenty of other channels. Mind you, I suppose if you really want the normal BBC content restored, you have a right to ask for it back, what with you being a licence payer etc.......you do have a TV licence?

[Ex- Member]

There's plenty of other channels. Mind you, I suppose if you really want the normal BBC content restored, you have a right to ask for it back, what with you being a licence payer etc.......you do have a TV licence?

 

Hence no complaints from me

[jodansgang]

According to the articles that have been running in "soundings" there is some controversy in obtaining a licence for livaboard boaters with NFA.

Do we really want BBC news back anyway? If it's not this bias it's another bias.

Try channel hopping between Russia Today and Algazeera for upto date non bias news coverage.

[Timleech]

According to the articles that have been running in "soundings" there is some controversy in obtaining a licence for livaboard boaters with NFA.

Do we really want BBC news back anyway? If it's not this bias it's another bias.

Try channel hopping between Russia Today and Algazeera for upto date non bias news coverage.

 

I do watch both of those from time to time, it's always good to see another angle on news, similarly if my usual newspaper isn't available I'll happily buy another one to see a different approach. To suggest AJ and (especially) RT are unbiased is ludicrous, though.

 

Tim

[Athy]

I believe that Mr. Gang was being sarcastic!

[jodansgang]

 

I do watch both of those from time to time, it's always good to see another angle on news, similarly if my usual newspaper isn't available I'll happily buy another one to see a different approach. To suggest AJ and (especially) RT are unbiased is ludicrous, though.

 

Tim

I completely agree Tim. I was just trying to be sarcastic.

Which news channel/newspaper isn't unbiased and motivated or controlled by some kind of political agenda?

The only one I can think of is the Beano.

[blackrose]

I'm just watching the end of the Dimbleby programme. Hopefully that's the end of all the coverage, although the funeral will be on the news for the rest of the day of course.

[Ex- Member]

I completely agree Tim. I was just trying to be sarcastic.

Which news channel/newspaper isn't unbiased and motivated or controlled by some kind of political agenda?

The only one I can think of is the Beano.

 

I feel channel 4 is usually the least bias of the U.K News channels. At least they don't run with all the same drivel fed to Journalists by govenment spin doctors every morning and run with it all day. If they do then they usually have a good angle.

[jodansgang]

Good call to be fair.

[Athy]

 

I completely agree Tim. I was just trying to be sarcastic.

Which news channel/newspaper isn't unbiased and motivated or controlled by some kind of political agenda?

The only one I can think of is the Beano.

Yesterday I received a card whose stamp bore a picture of The Beano. Is the replacement of the Queen's portrait by that of Dennis The Menace a symptom of a decline in standards following the recent Royal Mail privatisation?

The best news bulletin is that of Radio 4 at brealfast time. If the BBC is privatised, doubtless we shall get Dennis the Menace reading it.

[jodansgang]

Dennis, Maggie, Right wing, privatisation, Stamp

[churchward]

What's this got to do with boating? Can this move to the V. Pub please?

[jodansgang]

Indirectly, as TV licensing is enforced by the government for the sole purpose of watching the BBC and as a "boater" with no fixed abode who likes to watch a bit of TV now and again and who might come up against the wrong side of the law through not being able to obtain a TV licence due to not having a permanent address, I think it has a little bit, albeit indirectly, to do with boating..

[Bettie Boo]

Ok, just to clarify.....when it comes time for me to cancel our bricks & mortar tv license, there's no sense in inquiring about a tv license for the boat as we will be cc's and they won't issue one to us as we have no home address?

 

So if I can't obtain a license in the first place, I won't be considered to be breaking any laws by watching the odd bit of tv without a license right?

 

B~

[Guest]

Ok, just to clarify.....when it comes time for me to cancel our bricks & mortar tv license, there's no sense in inquiring about a tv license for the boat as we will be cc's and they won't issue one to us as we have no home address?

 

So if I can't obtain a license in the first place, I won't be considered to be breaking any laws by watching the odd bit of tv without a license right?

 

B~

 

It's an interesting one this and when it's been discussed on here before that just about seems to be it.

 

Technically yes you are required to have one but you can't get one without an address or at least it's more difficult.

 

I don't even think you can use a rellies address as they already have a licence and you only need one per property.

 

However I think I recall Carl found a way of getting himself licensed when he lived on a boat - I'll see if I can dig up his post.

 

Found it

 

http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=55512&p=1052990

 

I'm sure Carl won't mind.

 

TV LICENSING

BRISTOL

BS98 1TL

Tel: 0300 790 6087

Fax: 0300 790 6012

Email: enquiries@tvlicensing.co.uk

Our Ref: TVL27198854

19/05/2012

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

The use of television receiving equipment on a boat does not require separate

licensing if the television user holds a licence for their main address. If the

boat is the only residence then a licence will be required. Under those

circumstances the licence should show the mooring address or a forwarding

address.

I hope this information is useful.

Yours sincerely,

Mr W Kimball

TV Licensing

Edited December 15, 2013 by The Dog House

[jodansgang]

So is it possible to use a CART winter mooring as a non permanent address to obtain a TV licence?

For example the CCser happens to find themselves in the centre of a busy town or city one day, mooring on a 24/48 hr post and then wollop, licensing van, boat index, individual prosecution.

[harve90]

RE....licensing van. no such thing just another BBC lie, anyone ever seen inside one ? Scare tactics.

[Guest]

So is it possible to use a CART winter mooring as a non permanent address to obtain a TV licence?

For example the CCser happens to find themselves in the centre of a busy town or city one day, mooring on a 24/48 hr post and then wollop, licensing van, boat index, individual prosecution.

 

I don't think those vans exist any more and anyway weren't they actually fake?

 

The reality of getting caught without one on a boat I would say is extremely small I would say - to me it just really comes down to an issue of conscience.

[Jerra]

So is it possible to use a CART winter mooring as a non permanent address to obtain a TV licence?

Based on past #17 the vast majority of CCers can obtain a license as I would think the majority have some form of forwarding address.

[journeyperson]

 

 

The best news bulletin is that of Radio 4 at brealfast time. If the BBC is privatised, doubtless we shall get Dennis the Menace reading it.

The Today programme is very fond of running a headline item that turns out to be an advert for a Panorama programme that evening about something that isn't particularly newsworthy in the first place. They do it regularly.

Edited December 15, 2013 by journeyperson

[Jerra]

The reality of getting caught without one on a boat I would say is extremely small I would say - to me it just really comes down to an issue of conscience.

I am getting worried this it twice today I have agreed with you!

 

Judging by our experience when we had the shop if they have an address that had a license on their database they pester you with threats of an officer visiting to check. Over ten years of having a flat that had become shops storage and office above the actual shop all we ever had was periodic letters asking why we hadn't license.

 

They seem to assume all residential addresses have a TV.

[furnessvale]

According to the articles that have been running in "soundings" there is some controversy in obtaining a licence for livaboard boaters with NFA.

Do we really want BBC news back anyway? If it's not this bias it's another bias.

Try channel hopping between Russia Today and Algazeera for upto date non bias news coverage.

You missed Fox News off the list.

 

George ex nb Alton retired

[jodansgang]

So this becomes a single acceptable instance of tax avoidance given a certain set of circumstances and or individuals conscience or lack of it?

It's a tricky one isn't it?