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[–]turtleduck23 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

im not in the UK and i don't mean to sound stupid, but do you have to pay the fee if you don't watch the bbc? like, in the usa, bbc is just a channel we get depending on our provider, does the bbc represent the entire tv broadcasting (for instance, we can choose from comcast or direct tv ect...) or is it just a channel that's apart of a bigger package?

[–]Movellon[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone with a TV who watched broadcast TV has to have a TV licence. The flip side is the BBC doesn’t have adverts and can produce shows that commercial broadcasters wouldn’t.