drag British TV into 21st century
drag British TV into 21st century
drag British TV into 21st century
Using a database system, enforcement officials may call at any home and if they cannot spot a satellite dish they may question the owners as to why they failed to get one.
Judge Lead summed up with ..
"...The law is clear. It is an offence to receive live broadcast images on a television or computer or digital device without a valid satellite receiver.... Every home must have a BSkyB dish that costs around £145 a year.
It does not matter if the owners watch Sky television or just the free to air channels or even cable, internet or foreign TV. Or even if they don't watch TV at all. They must have a dish capable of receiving the network."
And he added ..
"And naturally they must pay £145 for a new dish every year, oh yes. "
Rupert Murdoch of BSkyB beamed happily that .."Its the unique way we will be funded that will allow us to pay our executives whatever we like....it will be fab..
But there are concessions of course. Anyone aged over 75 will be exempt from the satellite installation fee . And anyone who has somehow buggered up their flat screen's contrast and colour settings and lost their remote and so now only watches in black and white need only pay £49...the sad losers.."
In Islington, North London, many residents said that they would never have Sky TV. But on inspection at the rear of the premises or concealed inside the gables or up a tree at the end of the garden we could see slimline satellite dishes.
One owner of a terraced mansion, who initially denied having any subscription television, later explained that he only watch Sky Drama or Sky Arts.
"I'm not paying a £145 a year just to watch the Wire and Game of Thrones...I barely view anything else..except that Etruscan pottery show..And the opera, obviously. And I only hid the dish in the attic so as not to chav the place up and reduce the street's house prices."
If you want to know more about this story press the red button. Or try Goggle on your smart TV. Or use your phone or laptop or desktop or Xbox or tablet like everyone else. But do make sure you have a BSkyB dish installed or we'll get you!
