"period are refunded. The BBC may also revoke a licence under certain circumstances. The level of the fee is decided following periodic negotiations between the UK Government and the BBC Trust. From 1988 to 2010, the licence fee was increased annually each April Before 1988, increases in the licence fee happened at irregular intervals, sometimes a few years passing between changes. Between April 2010 and April 2017 the licence fee remained constant at £145.50 per year. In 2018 a tv license costs £150.50 for a colour and £50.50 for a black and white TV Licence. The BBC allows the following"
"is £145.50 for colour TV and £49 for monochrome TV, per household. The radio-only licence was abolished on 1 February 1971, when it was £1.25 (actually £1-5s-0d in pre-decimal UK currency) or the equivalent of £ in prices. On 1 April 1991, the BBC took over the administration of television licensing in the UK, assuming the responsibility of licence fee collection and enforcement. Since this date, the BBC has been the statutory authority for issuing television licences (before April 1991, the statutory authority was the UK Home Office), although the UK Government retains certain powers and responsibilities with regards to"
"for home radio receivers powered by mains electricity and was mandated by laws beginning with the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, to administer the licensing system. Households which bought a TV licence did not need to hold a separate radio licence as the TV licence covered both TV and radio reception. The BBC started regular colour TV broadcasts in the summer of 1967. On 1 January 1968, a ""colour supplement"" of £5 was added to the existing £5 monochrome licence fee; the combined colour licence fee was therefore £10, the equivalent of £ as of . The current (2010–2016) cash cost"
"a licence, and radio-only licences ceased to be issued . The colour television licence (actually a ""colour supplementary fee"" of £5 on top of the existing monochrome licence) was introduced in 1968, following the commencement of BBC2 colour transmissions the previous July. The costs of the various licence fees have been increased over the years, and while this has often been done annually, there have sometimes been gaps of varying length, which will have resulted in an overall lowering of income in real terms to the BBC, sometimes at times of high inflation. The green line on the chart shows"
"2013/14 and £1.843 billion for ITV in the calendar year 2013. The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence, costing £147 per year per household since April 2017. Such a licence is required to legally receive broadcast television across the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. No licence is required to own a television used for other means, or for sound only radio sets (though a separate licence for these was also required for non-TV households until 1971). The cost of a television licence is set by the government and enforced by the"
"must also have a television licence in order to watch on-demand television content from the service. As of 1 April 2017, after the end of a freeze that began in 2010, the price of a licence may now increase to account for inflation. The licence fee in 2018 was £150.50 for a colour and £50.50 for a black and white TV Licence. As it is classified in law as a tax, evasion of licence fees is a criminal offence. 204,018 people were prosecuted or fined in 2014 for TV licence offences: 173,044 in England, 12,536 in Wales, 4,905 people in"
"fee for the use of a television, set at 252 euros per year in 2012. The license fee was per location, which could hold several sets (e.g. in a living room as well as a bedroom). The public broadcasting tax, also known as the Yle tax, replaced the license fee in 2013. The tax ranges from 50 euros to 140 euros per person and per year, depending on income. Minors and persons with low income are exempt from the tax. In radio, Yle was a legal monopoly until 1985, when local radio stations were permitted, and maintained a national monopoly"
"invoiced TV Licensing £40 as a 'processing fee' for 'opening, reading and filing' a TV Licensing letter. Because TV Licensing did not pay the charge, the householder took the claim to the County Court, eventually winning the case and receiving the fee plus other costs incurred. If a colour TV licence is not purchased for an address, TV Licensing agents—known as ""visiting officers"", ""enquiry officers"" or ""enforcement officers""—make unannounced visits to the address. In August 2013, there were reported to be 334 enquiry officers all employees of the BBC's main enforcement contractor, Capita. Enquiry officers make around four million visits"
"licences for the over 75s. In 2014/15, the BBC estimated that there were 26.916 million licensable properties in the UK (defined as premises where live TV was being watched), indicating that if the BBC estimates are correct, around 95% of properties are correctly licensed. The total income generated from licence fees was £3.8302 billion in 2017–18. The vast majority of TV licences are for colour TV. For example, there were 10,461 black and white TV licences in force on 31 August 2014, compared to 25,460,801 colour TV licences. The BBC has also stated that during the financial year 2013-14, a"
"fee applies to all TVs, computers with Internet access or with TV tuners, or other devices that can receive broadcast TV, which actually means that you have to pay the TV licence if you have a relatively new mobile phone. The black/white TV rate is no longer offered after 1 January 2007. The majority of the licence fee is used to fund the national radio and TV broadcaster DR. However, a proportion is used to fund TV 2's regional services. TV2 itself used to get means from the licence fee but is now funded exclusively through advertising revenue. Though economically"
"of December 2011. Thus there were around 41% unlicensed properties in Guernsey at the beginning of 2012. When television broadcasts in the UK were resumed after a break due to the Second World War, it was decided to introduce a television licence fee in order to fund the service. When first introduced on 1 June 1946, the licence covering the monochrome-only single-channel BBC television service cost £2 (equivalent to £ as of ). The licence was originally issued by the General Post Office (GPO), which was then the regulator of public communications within the UK. The GPO also issued licences"
"withdrawing from it. The current Royal Charter for the BBC expires on 31 December 2027 and the TV licence fee itself was fixed at £145.50 until March 2017. After this time the fee will increase in line with inflation for five years until 2022; the price was raised to £147. The government stated that ""while the current licence fee collection system is in operation, the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained"". The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 gives the following definition: Television licensing in the United Kingdom Spelling help to editors: In UK English, the noun"
"the document of blind registration or a certificate from an ophthalmologist. The concessionary TV licence covers TV use by the whole household. Those aged over 60 and in residential care homes (including nursing homes, public-sector sheltered housing and almshouses) can get ""Accommodation for Residential Care"" (ARC) licences for £7.50 a year. TV licence sales figures were quoted by the BBC to be 25.562 million in the year 2014/15, including 4.502 million concessionary licences for the over 75s, which were paid for by the UK government. The equivalent figures for the year 2013/14 were 25.478 million total licences including 4.328 million"
"television reception. Fee payers who previously only registered a radio or a ""novel broadcast reception device"" but no TV set, will see their license fee increase by 212% (from €5.76 to €17.98), however households which previously had to pay multiple license fees will have to pay less. Beginning on 1 January 2013 on, people with disabilities are no longer exempt from paying license fees but will have to pay one third of the household flat-rate of €17.98. Under the previous regulations, the deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers who were legally deaf had been exempt. However, they started to contribute in 2013"
"of homes are multichannel, with 42% of these having access to 200 free to air channels via satellite and another 43% having access to 30 or more channels via Freeview. The licence that funds the seven advertising-free BBC TV channels costs £147 a year (about US$200) as of 2018 regardless of the number of TV sets owned; the price is reduced by two thirds if only black and white television is received. When the same sporting event has been presented on both BBC and commercial channels, the BBC always attracts the lion's share of the audience, indicating that viewers prefer"
"reception alone, the monthly fee was €5.76. On June 9, 2010, state governors decided that Heidelberg University Professor Paul Kirchhof's model of a flat-rate household license fee would be introduced in 2013. The model set out the collection of license fees as a lump sum per household, regardless of the number of broadcast reception devices present, or even, if any devices are present at all. This required that the 'GEZ' be reorganised, and that broadcast license fee commissioners are no longer be employed by state broadcasting institutions. The monthly fee per household is now €17.98, the amount previously payable for"
"per household with a TV set, independent of use. There is also a special licence fee paid by owners of one or more TV or radio sets on public premises or anyhow outside the household context, independent of the use. In 2016 the government opted to lower the licence fee to 100 euros per household and work it into the electricity bill in an attempt to eliminate evasion. The fee is now (2018) 90 Euro. It is two-thirds of income for RAI (coming down from about half of income about seven years ago), which also broadcasts advertising, in 2014 giving"
"of this basic package was £5,500 per annum in 1983, equivalent to around £25,000 as at end 2014. The charge includes: Additional frames were available in batches of 500 for £500 per annum (over £2,300 as at end 2014) while Closed User Groups and Sub-IP Facility cost respectively £250 (over £1,100 as at end 2014). Those with smaller requirements or budget could rent pages from a main information provider rather than from the Post Office/British Telecom. The main IP had to pay an additional £250 to obtain the privilege but could then rent out individual pages at a market rate."
"criminal law. A discount is available for households with only black-and-white television sets. A 50% discount is also offered to people who are registered blind or severely visually impaired, and the licence is completely free for any household containing anyone aged 75 or over. As a result of the UK Government's recent spending review, an agreement has been reached between the government and the corporation in which the current licence fee will remain frozen at the current level until the Royal Charter is renewed at the beginning of 2017. The BBC pursues its licence fee collection and enforcement under the"
"beginning on that channel on 2 December 1967. BBC1 and ITV followed suit on 15 November 1969. Colour broadcasting added further to the cost and complexity of producing television sets. The resulting high price and low coverage areas of the new technology delayed consumer adoption further: it wasn't until 1977 that the number of colour licences sold outnumbered those of black and white. In the early 1970s, Sony and Hitachi launched UK colour televisions that cost less than £200. Domestic manufacturers attempted to compete, but were handicapped by outdated manufacturing techniques and an inflexible workforce. Pye found themselves with high"
"a portion of the broadcasting licence fees payable by private television broadcasters. Since the beginning of 2013 the licence fee has been replaced by a public broadcasting tax (known as the Yle tax), which is collected annually from private individuals and corporations together with their other taxes. By far the largest part of the Yle tax is collected from individual taxpayers, with payments being assessed on a sliding scale. Minors, as well as persons with an annual income of less than €7,813 are exempt. At the lower limit the tax payable by individuals amounts to €50 per annum and the"
"Proposals to abolish licensing have been circulating since October 2009. The national carrier hopes to receive funding entirely via state subsidies and commercials. According to IOL.co.za: ""Television licence collections for the 2008/09 financial year (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009) amounted to R972m."" (almost €90m) In South Korea, the television licence fee () is collected for the Korean Broadcasting System and Educational Broadcasting System and is ₩30,000 per year (about €20.67). It has stood at this level since 1981, and now makes up less than 40% of KBS's income and less than 8% of EBS's income. Its purpose is"
"fees are to be temporary suspended. June 2015 ERT come back by Alexis Tsipras.Greeks , now pay 36 euro per year. As of 2012 the cost of a television licence in Ireland is €160. In 2006, the charge was €158, up from €155 in 2005. However the licence is free to anyone over the age of 70 (regardless of means or circumstances), to some over 66, and to the blind (although these licences are in fact paid for by the state). The Irish post office, An Post, is responsible for collection of the licence fee and commencement of prosecution proceedings"
"the computed split between radio:TV licences before 1970, and the split between colour:black-and-white from 1970 onwards, as indicated by the numbers shown in the lower table number of licences issued. ""The computed split"" is the simple value for the total of the licences issued (at whatever price) divided by the number sold. The Licence Fee is frozen in cash terms at its April 2010 level until April 2016. Historical price conversion as per RPI figures from , RPI projections from . The number of licences on issue at 31 March or 1 April by year is as follows: Television licensing"
"seasons with the highest price in Asia and the second highest in the world valued $320 million. The service started broadcast via cable-TV providers and on satellite via Vinasat-2 in mid-August 2013, just weeks before English Premier League started its new season. In September 2013, CTH filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. and its local company, Apple South Asia (Thailand), accusing of violating intellectual property rights for commercial purposes and counterfeiting or altering a registered trademark for ฿100 million after they allow an app call ""Sports Channel"" that allow the user to watch EPL live broadcasts to be sold on"
"channels: Challenge, Gold, Nickelodeon, VH1, Sky Living, Sky1, Comedy Central, TCM, Syfy, The History Channel, National Geographic and Sky News, which ranged from £5 to £13 extra per month. From 28 November 2013, Virgin Media ceased to provide an analogue TV service in Milton Keynes. Meanwhile, BT are re-using the cable TV ducting to run fibre optic broadband cabling as part of the FTTP trial in the town. Westminster in London had the same problem, where BT owned the cables. Residents are also unable to install satellite dishes due to constraints. BT's cables have insufficient bandwidth, so Virgin are unable"
"always been on the agenda for the Green Party in the Republic of Ireland. However, in recent days, a change has occurred such that BBC services are now to be offered in the Republic of Ireland on a ‘paid for’ basis and not the original free-to-air basis. This change has been referred to as a mistake between the MOU and press releases. Basic Pack - €9.99 (Channel line-up and cost structure subject to change) Setanta Sports Pack - €19.99 (""Subject to change"") Sky Sports Pack - €24.99 Sky Movies Pack - €14.99 One Vision (DTT) OneVision was a consortium that"
"were sent to unlicensed addresses. The average postage cost to post one standard TV Licensing letter in the financial year 2012/13 was stated to be £0.2059. The methods by which an occupant can reply are in writing, by telephone or by filling in an online form. If there is no reply to the first letter and a TV licence is not bought by the occupant, then TV Licensing continues to write regularly to the address and ""the tone of the letters progressively becomes stronger to encourage a reply"". For example, one of its standard letters includes the phrase: ""Official warning:"
"February 2015. In 2016, the recommended retail price has been set at RM285 (inclusive of GST). RM350 (excluding RM100 installation) had been the new price of new set from 1 February 2017. On 1 October 2017, the total price has been set at RM355. Njoi's main competitor would be antenna based DTT service, MYTV. This colour box is for NJOI customers who have HD Decoder to watch HD channels and is not available for NJOI who still using normal Decoder. Note This colour box is for NJOI customers who have HD Decoder to watch HD channels and is not available"
"formed in compliance with the European Convention on Transfrontier Television that Croatia had joined between 1999 and 2002. The licence fee in the Czech Republic is 135 Kč (€4.992 [using exchange rate 27 July 2015]) per month as from 1 January 2008. This increase is to compensate for the abolition of paid advertisements except in narrowly defined circumstances during a transitional period. Each household pays for one TV licence regardless of how many televisions they own. Corporations and the self-employed must pay for a licence for each television. The media licence fee in Denmark, , is 2477 kr (€332). This"
"ERT is mainly funded by a license fee, paid with the electricity bill (along with other applicable taxes) which represents the vast majority of the resources of the public group. The fee was 4.74 euros per month in 2013, but was reduced to 3 euros per month upon the launch of ERT. It is not connected with actual ownership of a TV set. There are modest grants from the government for contributing to educational public missions. And since 2008, some commercial resources from advertisers (even though the channels have lost significant parts of audiences) and the economical crisis in Greece"
"after years of controversy over the introduction of television, the SABC was finally allowed to introduce a colour TV service, which began experimental broadcasts in the main cities on 5 May 1975, before the service went nationwide on 6 January 1976. Initially, the TV service was funded entirely through a licence fee just like the UK, but began advertising in 1978. The SABC (both Television and Radio) is still partly funded by the licence fee (currently R250 a year). The service initially broadcast only in English and Afrikaans, with an emphasis on religious programming on Sundays. A local soap opera,"
"that a period of consultation with staff on the plans were due to begin shortly. The BBC agreed to finance Monitoring from 2013/14 as part of the 2010 licence fee settlement which froze the annual colour licence fee at £145.50 for six years. The agreement also saw the corporation agree to take over the Foreign Office-funded World Service from 2014. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees strongly condemned the gradual scaling down of BBC Monitoring's capabilities in two separate reports published in late 2016. The reports claimed that BBC Monitoring's operations have been adversely affected by cuts."