what can i watch on sky when i cancel my tv license ?

[DaveDrizen]

One thing I will say people object to paying £145 a year for licence yet happy fork out Over £100 a month  for a Sky or virgin subscription,

[Chodley]

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@DaveDrizen wrote:

One thing I will say people object to paying £145 a year for licence yet happy fork out Over £100 a month  for a Sky or virgin subscription,

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Indeed. My total Sky plus streamer subs amount to £1680 a year (not sure how I'd account for Prime in this so left it out)

TV license is a rounding error.

[PandJ2020]

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@Adma1 wrote:

If you do not wish to pay the TV licence fee, do not watch or record and live tv broadcasts.  Do not use Iplayer, only watch on demand services from the likes of Netflix, Prime, Disney, ITVX, My5, or 4 or YouTube.  That way you do not need a TV licence and can apply to be exempted from  buying one.

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That's true but I wouldn't want a Sky box to do just that...

[TimmyBGood]

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@Adma1 wrote:

Do not use Iplayer, only watch on demand services from the likes of Netflix, Prime, Disney, ITVX, My5, or 4 or YouTube.  That way you do not need a TV licence and can apply to be exempted from  buying one.

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Worth noting that Prime, Netflix and YouTube and the television channel apps also carry some 'live' content, so caution is required there.

[spannernick1]

BBC is now looking into a subscription service like Netflix now instead of the TV Licence(problery becuase Donald Thump is suiting them and can't use the TV Licance to pay him so need there own money now), even PMs think its very old now and needs changing, you should not need to be changed twice to watch Sky programs live, it makes no sense.

The U channels that where UKTV is part of the BBC, thats why UGold shows only reruns of old BBC programs(werid its not a free channel), I pay a TV Licence but do not watch anything from the BBC, BBC channels are not on my Sky Steam box, the first channel is ITV, last time I watch the BBC was in 2017 and when Peter Capaldi played Doctor Who, it when down hill after he left so stopped watching it.

And by making Freeview and Freely makes it sound like its free to watch(when it has the live channels with it) and makes it even more confusing...??

How can it be called Freeview when you need a TV Licence to view it, I asked them that on there website and they never replied... 😞

[TimmyBGood]

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@spannernick1 wrote:

BBC is now looking into a subscription service like Netflix now instead of the TV Licence(problery becuase Donald Thump is suiting them and can't use the TV Licance to pay him so need there own money now)

Review of BBC funding is part of the Charter Renewal process which happens every decade and is unrelated to any other issue 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-charter-review-to-future-proof-the-bbc 

The U channels that where UKTV is part of the BBC, thats why UGold shows only reruns of old BBC programs(werid its not a free channel),

UKTV channels are run by BBC Studios which isn't funded from the Licence Fee

How can it be called Freeview when you need a TV Licence to view it, I asked them that on there website and they never replied... 😞

'Free' as in no subscription required

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