"Newps" wrote in message
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Rob Perkins wrote:

In the US, maybe. Elsewhere, where there is a tax on television
receivers, there really *is* a TV Police.

You mean you have a tax on TV's other than the normal sales taxes?
Would this be a yearly deal?

Yes.

http://www.tv-l.co.uk/index_frameset.html

It funds the BBC and the terrestrial transmitter network. It's
widely acknowledged to be responsible for the prevention of
"dumbing down" TV to er, how can I put this...US levels of
catering for the lowest common denominator (there are no
commercials on BBC 1 and 2 and on BBC radio).

Paul