BBC TV does not advertise, and the funds are raised from British viewers.
You have to pay a license fee to watch TV.
Television has become an indispensable part of people's daily life. But in Britain, people must buy a TV license before watching TV.
According to the latest notice from the TV license management company, the license fee for color TV sets is 109 pounds per year (100 pounds or so180 yuan RMB), and the license fee for black and white TV sets is 36.5 pounds. Except for the elderly over 75 who enjoy free treatment, the blind enjoy half-price concessions, and everyone else has to pay in full. The notice reiterated that it is illegal to watch TV without a license. Once found, it will be given a warning and a fine of 1000, and offenders may even be taken to court.
The BBC refused advertising sponsorship and relied on the public to raise development funds.
The television licensing system in Britain has a long history, which came into being with the establishment of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). As a British national broadcasting company, BBC is chartered by the British royal family and managed by officials. Its foothold is to provide the public with public welfare programs that can reflect the mainstream culture and public interests in Britain. In order to maintain its true colors and not be driven and controlled by any commercial interests, BBC's two TV stations in China-BBC1and BBC2 cannot accept any form of advertising and commercial sponsorship. Therefore, in addition to government funding, the BBC's development fund mainly relies on public fundraising. This fee is called TV license fee. Fees are determined by the Ministry of Culture and Media under the government. According to current standards, the BBC can get about 654.38+04 billion pounds of funds from the public every year. In order to ensure the smooth arrival of this huge sum of money, the BBC has specially appointed an agency-TV Licensing Company (hereinafter referred to as TL Company), which is responsible for managing and handling the payment of each TV set in every household in the UK, issuing payment notices to new tenants, warning those who evade payment and reminding them at home when necessary.
Man-machine dual tracking, searching for fish that escaped from the net
Although TL headquarters has only 1200 employees, its efficiency is still quite high. I have a deep understanding of this. I am from love.
Shortly after Dingburg moved to London, the first letter he received was the notice of TV license fee from TL Company. It turns out that the database of TL Computer Center stores the detailed addresses of 26 million families in Britain. The staff processes and updates these data according to the family and payment situation every day. In addition, with the approval of the government, TL staff also have the opportunity to access the database of the British National Insurance System and directly obtain everyone's confidential information. In addition, TL Company has detailed files on the whereabouts of every TV set in China. According to 1967 "wireless telegraph act", any company or individual engaged in selling or renting TV sets must not only register with TL company, but also provide TL company with the details of the buyer or tenant within 28 days after completing each TV set transaction. Otherwise, once discovered, businesses will be severely punished.
According to the results of the double tracking survey of people and planes, TL will use advanced TV signal monitoring vehicles to go deep into the streets and lanes of Britain if any suspicious circumstances involving unpaid license fees are found. These machines will sensitively receive the signal of any TV set in use and judge its direction and distance according to the strength of the signal. For the apartment buildings of dozens of inaccessible families, the monitoring is switched to hand-held monitoring, door-to-door testing and asking about the payment. Through these high-tech means, the monitor claims that it can catch an average of 1000 people watching TV without a license every day.
There are many people who evade payment.
Morley poll shows that 56% of Britons are unwilling to pay the license fee, and think that the BBC should look for other sources of funds. However, most British people can consciously buy permits. But there are also many people who avoid paying because they don't know the situation or live in poverty. Even when the door-to-door monitoring personnel catch a "stolen goods", they should argue three points. Some people lied that the TV display screen is broken and they can't see the image, so turning on the TV is only used as a room dehumidifier; Others say that they never watch BBC programs; Or not the owner of this house and so on. From different stories.
The population, so that the monitoring personnel in distress situation. They put all kinds of excuses on the internet and made them public.
The anti-TV license movement has risen quietly. TL Company's tough attitude of chasing after the interception and suing for fines has aroused some people's resistance, and an anti-TV license movement is brewing. Opponents plan to hold anti-TV license demonstrations in parliament square and BBC broadcasting building, with the intention of forcing the government to amend the law and cancel the TV license system.
New Zealanders used a petition signed by 220,000 people and finally forced the new government to cancel the TV licensing system. The British want to learn from this successful experience, and are actively carrying out a petition signature campaign against TV licenses, and plan to submit the petition to the Prime Minister's Office after collecting the signatures of 6.5438+0 million opponents. It is predicted that once successful, they will create the largest petition in history-the most signatures in British history.
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Source: Global Times