TV licence fee increase

[LazyLion]

I'm not going to renew my licence either. I'll do whatever I have to do to not pay the licence. Going to ask a TV reapairman friend of mine to denature my TV for me. Will take down the aerial as soon as possible.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

you own a tv you must have a license, not like owing a car but if you want to drive it you must have a license.

i still regret the day i got a tv license.

Just to comment on Mr Smooth. I have also tried to argue my way around this in circles many times. The fact still stands that you are paying a license to the government not the sabc, the sabc in the olden days were appointed to collect the license on behalf of the government thus do they collect a minimal fee on it for them selfs. We are paying a license for the reciever that is in the tv the actual device that can recieve a free to air tv signal. So no matter how much we run in circles with explanations and excuses if you want to buy a tv and it can recieve a tv signal you must pay the license fee whether you only watch cartoon channel or just natgeo.

My gripe is not paying the license, it's paying the license to the SABC. If anything, it should go to ICASA (as useless as they are, they are usually the ones to issue licenses in the communications industry). They also allocate the frequency spectrum to be used for broadcasting.

The argument that it doesn't go to the SABC is a little flawed - it's their board that proposed the increase, not the government. Either way, it should go to neither of them.

 

[sly]

I just payed my TV licence.. It's the right thing to do

 

[jetlee]

The irony is that for years they posted a huge profit and drew massive salaries.. in a lot of other countries National TV is free (they recover revenue from advertising) .. How much do you think it costs for the admin burden of advertising that people must pay licenses, collecting licenses, the legal fees used to punish people who dont pay licenses..

Really .. for the Admin and PT .. it barely seems worth it .. why not ditch the license fee altogether and recover it from advertising .. makes sense to me .. or do we still live in the dark ages ?

 

[Xyber]

For less than 70c a day I can keep on not listening to the radio and not watching SABC (or even DSTV for that matter). I listen to my CDs in the car and watch BluRays and DVDs on my TV.

Just to comment on Mr Smooth. I have also tried to argue my way around this in circles many times. The fact still stands that you are paying a license to the government not the sabc, the sabc in the olden days were appointed to collect the license on behalf of the government thus do they collect a minimal fee on it for them selfs. We are paying a license for the reciever that is in the tv the actual device that can recieve a free to air tv signal. So no matter how much we run in circles with explanations and excuses if you want to buy a tv and it can recieve a tv signal you must pay the license fee whether you only watch cartoon channel or just natgeo.

Should TV license not fall away when the digital thing kicks in (whenever they get around that) seeing that you can't catch these free to air signals without the special little box then. So if you want that box you can pay the license and the rest of us can use the TV for what we want.

The amount is nothing, I mean R250, seriously, but its the idea that I have to give money and not receive any kind of service in return. I rather give that R250 to one of the guys "looking after" my car in the parking lot.

 

[Frankc]

I don't have any TV at all. (There is still things called monitors and something else that you can plug into your PC to receive TV signals)

Obviously I still need a licence for such device but since I don't have a TV and a license is called a TV License.......

 

[Antonf]

I never had an SABC licence
I don't have an SABC licence now
I never will have an SABC licence.

I don't watch any SABC channels.

I don't need

the reciever (sic) that is in the tv the actual device that can recieve (sic) a free to air tv signal

If someone wants the "reciever" he's welcome to it...

 

[InTheCube]

I don't really mind the 11% increase - R0 + R0 X 11% = R0 per month. Pretty affordable if you ask me.

 

[Tns]

Should TV license not fall away when the digital thing kicks in (whenever they get around that) seeing that you can't catch these free to air signals without the special little box then. So if you want that box you can pay the license and the rest of us can use the TV for what we want.
.

i actually emailed a few people about that, when the anlouge signal gets switched off in 2013 there is no more signal to received, but apparently you still need a license

 

[ginggs]

I'm not going to renew my licence either. I'll do whatever I have to do to not pay the licence. Going to ask a TV reapairman friend of mine to denature my TV for me. Will take down the aerial as soon as possible.

Good luck with that. A friend of mine's TV broke and he decided he didn't want another one. He had to get an affidavit from the police and a quote from a repairman stating the TV was beyond economical repair. After going to all that hassle the SABC now denying ever receiving his documentation and are still trying to extract license fees from him.

An SABC license is like herpes.

 

[rorz0r]

You can have your receiver taken out (tv "denatured"). There's enough info on it on the sabc website but the gist of it is that it costs more and is a lot more effort and a lot more dealing with the sabc than just paying your tv license.