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BBC grasps at straws
22 January 2026Who remembers the TV license?
Many, many years ago right here in New Zealand, it was a legal requirement to pay for a TV license if you wanted to watch broadcast television. Of course for much of the time the license was a requirement, broadcast TV was the only thing you could watch.
Every year, law-abiding TV owners would have to pay as much as $110 for the privilege of watching the ad-ridden content that was "free to air" television.
Eventually, in 2000, the license scheme was abandoned here in New Zealand but over in the UK, the tax continues unabated with all the fee going to that country's state broadcaster, the BBC.
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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