Category Archives: What really grinds my gears

For the past year I have received numerous letters from the TV licencing enforcement, including a visit from an enforcement officer, followed by more letters. Except I don’t own a TV set and haven’t owned one in all the time I’ve lived here. The enforcement officer was actually made aware of this but after being clearly informed of my no-TV situation he assured me the letters would stop being sent. They haven’t, so last week I telephoned them and explained in no uncertain terms that I do not use a TV set and therefore should not have to pay for anything.

Apparently this will need to be confirmed by yet another home visit from an enforcement officer, although I was told by the call centre employee (who, in fairness, was very polite about the whole thing) that more letters will arrive in the meantime due to the automated nature of their distribution. All this is a heavy-handed and antiquated system that has no place in the current state of the broadcasting industry: things have moved on and it’s high time the licencing system did too.