Anyone know a pub in london that will show the gp??

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:28 am

being a poor student i dont have a tv licence but really want to watch the Monaco GP this weekend.

does anyone know a decent pub in north or central london that will be showing the grand prix ?

i hate listening to a race on the radio

ben

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:21 pm

You have to be licensed to watch television in England? Is there a test to make sure you can do it correctly? Or is it like a restaurants liquor "license" where you just have to pay a fee? Is TV government sponsored with no commercials or something? I'm going to have to go and look this up...

antron · Post by **antron** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:39 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote: You have to be licensed to watch television in England? Is there a test to make sure you can do it correctly? Or is it like a restaurants liquor "license" where you just have to pay a fee? Is TV government sponsored with no commercials or something? I'm going to have to go and look this up...

when I was there in 1993 you had to pay to receive over the air transmissions, and there were plenty of commercials.

to catch you thay had vans that rode around and could detect you watching tv. I thought it was crazy.

hope things have changed.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:43 pm

The BBC charge everyone owning a TV with a license fee which pays for quality, commercial free, unbias television and radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

It sounds draconian, but it is the greatest thing that this country ever did along with the NHS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:09 pm

But you get other channels than just the BBC don't you? Yet you still have to pay for the BBC to be able to watch anything else? Do you have cable and satellite over there? If you do, it would be really easy to regulate who can watch what...

freddiebamboo wrote:unbias television and radio.

Nothing is without bias.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Criticism

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:21 pm

It's clearly not the pillar of impartiality that is Fox "we report, you decide" News. But thats a whole other needless internet willy waving session.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:35 pm

Um, I said nothing is without bias, not that the BBC alone is biased

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:40 pm

It just seemed a little bit unecessary to point that out in a thread about wanting to watch the grand prix in the pub, so I thought i'd add a little unecessary comment of my own.

Mr_Monks: You could always ask them to put it on in the student's union. Unless they'd rather force everyone to watch Doncaster vs Leeds instead.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:32 pm

You need to pay a yearly license to own a TV in the whole Europe, from the southernmost tip of Italy to Svalbard.

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:54 am

Fenrir wrote:You need to pay a yearly license to own a TV in the whole Europe, from the southernmost tip of Italy to Svalbard.

This might not be entirely true. At least in Finland you pay the license for the TV signals, not the TV itself. When the country switched to digital-only transmissions I didn't go along with it (didn't buy a digibox or a digital television) so I'm now left without TV programs to watch, but I still have the device for playing games and watching DVDs on. And I don't have to pay the license.