Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
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Old 13-05-2015, 13:30   #2191
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
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Originally Posted by MutleyF View Post
As much as we all hate it, I agree that its doubtful that the licence fee is going anywhere.

Indeed, the licence fee has (I believe I read) paid for the development of Teletext, High Definition, Digital Radio, and catch up TV (the CEO at the time, Ashley Highfield developed the Iplayer). Plus, can you imagine the BBC news website splattered in ads to help pay for it if the licence is abolished .....

Hate paying it the same as everyone, but then I also hate paying road tax !
Yes, let's get rid of that too!

Incidentally, just found the link below regarding the licence fee.

If they were to abolish the licence fee and introduce subscriptions, this would give an incentive to those who do not currently have pay-TV to go for that instead of the BBC. This will help the Sky/VM/BT/Talk Talk coffers.

Maybe that increased revenue would help to pay for some of our missing TV channels.

http://advanced-television.com/2015/...o-be-scrapped/

John Whittingdale, who was this week appointed Culture Secretary, has made no secret of his belief that the licence fee is in need of reform, describing it as “worse than the poll tax”.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy View Post
You can get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on it own.

You need the Sky Sports Pack for Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports F1.

Our Sky Source only says Sky Movies is being worked on.
Maybe so, but I expect the Sports channels will be next, unless they've worked out that people will cease their high level subscriptions for sport rather than be forced to pay more to get the whole package.
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