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<blockquote data-quote="sonnetpete" data-source="post: 824799" data-attributes="member: 310216"><p>I suppose the idea of paying an 'equivalent licence fee' might seem a good solution......but I already pay a licence fee (included in my French Council Tax). Admittedly it's to receive French programming....though of course with the usual caveat that it's a licence to have equipment to receive transmissions, regardless of where they originate....so effectively I'd be paying two.....that's not to say I wouldn't but if you tried to sell the idea like that I can forsee a lot of very irate ex pats...</p><p></p><p>AS: Some of us live somewhere where it's just as cold and wet as the UK....and pay taxes in the UK.....and speak the native language of their adopted country (in various degrees of fluency).....but the fact remains that (in my case) the French programming is even direr than the UK....so ex pats use the TV as a sort of comfort blanket...If the 'fee' produced programmes one would want to watch (you know...entertain..educate...inform) that would be different...(soap box dismounted now)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sonnetpete, post: 824799, member: 310216"] I suppose the idea of paying an 'equivalent licence fee' might seem a good solution......but I already pay a licence fee (included in my French Council Tax). Admittedly it's to receive French programming....though of course with the usual caveat that it's a licence to have equipment to receive transmissions, regardless of where they originate....so effectively I'd be paying two.....that's not to say I wouldn't but if you tried to sell the idea like that I can forsee a lot of very irate ex pats... AS: Some of us live somewhere where it's just as cold and wet as the UK....and pay taxes in the UK.....and speak the native language of their adopted country (in various degrees of fluency).....but the fact remains that (in my case) the French programming is even direr than the UK....so ex pats use the TV as a sort of comfort blanket...If the 'fee' produced programmes one would want to watch (you know...entertain..educate...inform) that would be different...(soap box dismounted now) [/QUOTE]
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