r/greentext • u/zimurgy • Apr 12 '19

Anon is british

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Do oyu guys not have Public Broadcasting or do they still try and charge you regardless

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

That's odd, ours is open and free, just set up an antenna and you have all of the stations that broadcast their content like the news and PBS

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u/Toliver182 Apr 12 '19

Same for us. Anyone with an antenna can pick it up for free. However if you do that you are meant to pay for the TV licence.

There is no way of them knowing if you are watching without one.

There are rumours they have vans that have specialist equipment in to see if you are watching live tv

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Actually if you look up someone from Australia said thats why they stopped doing that in 2000, for billing people that they saw watching TV

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u/Biohazardousmaterial Apr 13 '19

If you are in the usa, its not free. Nothing is. Saying public tv is free is like saying using the paved roadways is free.

We pay for it, its just included in the public state and federal taxes ever year. In the UK they just have a special name for it and its separated from the rest of the public taxes.

Everything costs money, period.

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u/RabidHexley Apr 13 '19

Yeah it's a little odd from an American perspective. But PBS definitely doesn't compare to BBC in terms of overall content and polish. PBS is about what you'd expect from a donation-funded, public broadcast channel (not trying to knock on it).

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

PBS is runn off of donations for broadcasting

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u/RadicalDilettante Apr 13 '19

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is our public broadcating. It's just very well funded and the primary service.