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	Television licence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Television licensing is common in Europe, as well as some countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, but not used in the Americas, with the exception of the French overseas departments.
		All licence fees were abolished in 1974 by the Australian Labor Party government led by Gough Whitlam on the basis that it was an unfair and regressive tax.
		Television was introduced in 1960, and with it the television licence fee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television_licence (1638 words)

	Television licence - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Licence Fee in the UK In the United Kingdom, these fees are set by Parliament and go directly to the funding of the BBC, enabling it to run without the need for funding by advertisements.
		In 2003, the television licence in Ireland is €150.
		The licence fee in Germany is €193.80 per annum for TV and radio.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Television_licence (851 words)

	Television licence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A television licence is an official (A legal document giving official permission to do something) licence required in some countries for all owners of a (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television receiver.
		The licence fee in (A republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)) South Africa is (The 18th letter of the Roman alphabet) R225 per annum for TV.
		Radio licence fees were introduced in the (The decade from 1920 to 1929) 1920s to fund the first privately-owned broadcasters which were not permitted to sell advertising.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/television_licence.htm (1903 words)

	Encyclopedia: Television licence fee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The licence fee in Finland is 193,95 € per annum for TV.
		The licence fee in Germany is 193.80 € per annum for TV and radio.
		In 2005, the television licence in Ireland is €152.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Television-licence-fee (1053 words)

	Television: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Television
		Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance.
		The earliest television sets were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk (the Nipkow disk[?], invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow[?]) that produced a red postage-stamp size image.
		Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
	www.encyclopedian.com /te/Television.html (1133 words)

	television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nipkow's spinning disk design is credited with being the first television image rasterizer, but it is believed that he never built a prototype to prove the design (it wasn't until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology made the design practical).
		A semi-mechanical analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
		Vladimir Zworykin is also sometimes cited as the father of electronic television because of his invention of the iconoscope in 1923 and his invention of the kinescope in 1929.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Television (3528 words)

	Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image.
		Television usage in the United States skyrocketed after World War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related technological advances, the gradual expansion of the television networks westward, the drop in set prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income.
		Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents are raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television (6463 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 324 - 18 November, 1980 - Adjournment Debate - Television Licence Fees
		Some programmes that are at present on our national television service are of such a low standard that if they were put on in a hall, theatre or lounge bar in a country area they would have to close after a few nights if the proprietor had not the sense to recognise their poor quality.
		In that period the fee was increased from £4 to £7.50.
		A colour licence fee of £15 was introduced in October 1973 and was increased to £31 by April 1977.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0324/D.0324.198011180081.html (2590 words)

	Television Licences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A television licence is a certificate that states that you have paid the appropriate fee to the government and contributed to the cost of public service broadcasting in Ireland.
		The television licence fee is collected by An Post on behalf of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, who has responsibility for broadcasting policy in Ireland.
		Each licence is issued for a 1 year period; this means that if you will be staying in Ireland for less than 1 year, you must still obtain a full television licence.
	www.oasis.gov.ie /arts_and_culture/broadcasting/tv_licences.html (1282 words)

	ipedia.com: Television licence Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Licence Fee in the UK In the United Kingdom, these fees are set by Parliament, paid annually via the Post Office and go directly to the funding of the BBC, enabling it to run without advertisements.
		Addresses with no licence are automatically assumed to actually have a television, and are subject to repeated mailshots and visits by the enforcement agency, which causes a great deal of resentment on the part of those with no television.
		In 2003, the television licence in Ireland is 150 euro.
	www.ipedia.com /television_licence.html (650 words)

	BBC response to licence fee announcement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We are encouraged that the Secretary of State strongly reaffirmed in October that the licence fee remains, for the foreseeable future, the best means to provide the BBC with sufficient security to continue to meet its obligations to all its audiences.
		Television licence fees are to go up to £101.00 for a colour licence and to £33.50 for a fl and white licence from 1 April 1999, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced today.
		Under this formula, licence fee increases for the five years as a whole were held to RPI minus 0.08%.
	www.bbc.co.uk /info/news/news146.htm (808 words)

	Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rosing disappeared during the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, but Zworykin later went to work for RCA to build a purely electronic television, the design of which was eventually found to violate patents by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
		Nigeria was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce television, in 1959, followed by Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1961, while Zanzibar was the first in Africa to introduce colour television, in 1983.
		A 2/23/2002 article in Scientific American suggested that compulsive television watching was no different from any other addiction, a finding backed up by reports of withdrawal symptoms among families forced by circumstance to cease watching.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/te/television.html (4260 words)

	PTV to earn Rs4bn thru licence fee: New collection system -DAWN - National; 15 June, 2004
		ISLAMABAD, June 14: The Pakistan Television Corporation will become one of the few richest corporations in the country with a revenue of Rs4.1 billion annually collected through monthly television licence fee to be collected along with electricity bills.
		The annual expenditure of PTV is about Rs3 billion, he said, adding that the decision of collecting licence fees through electricity bills would also save both the TV set holders as well as the collection staff from the many hassle involved in the collection of Rs300 as a fee per TV set.
		The idea to collect licence fee through electricity bill was in the minds of PTV management for the last many years, but Arshad Khan, the new PTV managing director, was lucky enough as the concept got matured soon after he assumed the charge, a senior PTV officer said.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/15/nat16.htm (386 words)

	Television Licence Fee: 4 Nov 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was paid in television licence fees by residents of Dumfries and Galloway in the last year for which figures are available.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was paid in TV licence fees by residents of Chorley parliamentary constituency in each of the last five years.
		The information requested is not available, since TV Licensing, who administer the television licensing system for the BBC, do not maintain statistics of television licence sales and revenues by locality.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2003-11-04.135254.h (150 words)

	RTE News - Television licence fee to increase by £14.50
		The Government has approved a television licence increase of £14.50 from next September.
		The Minister said: "Licence holders must be reassured that the licence fee revenue is well spent and that the RTÉ Authority meets its statutory obligations in the most cost-effective manner".
		The NUJ has described the licence fee increase as "scandalous".
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0703/rte.html (509 words)

	Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The BBC launched the world's first regular broadcast television service, from Alexandra Palace in London on November 2, 1936.
		All of these early TV systems shared the same aspect ratio of 4:3, which was determined by the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) manufacturing technology of the time -- today's CRT technology allows the manufacture of wider tubes.
		In the US, television networks produce prime-time programs for their affiliate stations to air from 8pm-11pm Monday-Saturday and 7pm-11pm on Sunday.
	www.enlightenweb.net /t/te/television.html (1665 words)

	Campaign to Abolish the tv Licence
		The C.A.L. believes that the Television Licence Fee, which British citizens are forced to pay by law, is unjust and unfair.
		It is a matter of shame that this sort of thing still goes on in the 21st century in what is supposed to be a civilised and democratic country.
		Q9 As you know, the BBC is currently funded by the licence fee, and all households with a colour television pay an annual fee of £104.
	www.spiderbomb.com /tv (544 words)

	Pak FM announces guideline on TV licence fee payment- Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News
		MUMBAI: Pakistan finance minister Shaukat Aziz has announced that only the country's television set owners needed to pay an extra fee in every electricity bill for over 100 units as television licence fee.
		He added that those who didn't own a TV set could sign a declaration and no fee would be added to their bills.
		Shaukat Aziz in his budget speech on 12 June had announced that owing to difficulties in payment of annual television licence fee of Rs 300, it was decided to divide the amount and add it to electricity bills.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/june/june126.htm (127 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - The BBC
		THE BBC last night announced plans to begin offering broadcasts in high-definition television (HDTV), billed as a revolution in quality and sound, from the middle of next year.
		ANNA Ford, one of the most familiar female faces in television news, yesterday confirmed she was...
		THE BBC yesterday set out its inflation-busting demand for the licence fee that could mean viewers...
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=1331942004 (411 words)

	TV licence fee to rise in April
		The cost of a colour TV licence will rise from £116 to £121 on 1 April.
		"The television licence fee settlement announced by the Government in February 2000 provides for changes in the licence fee of RPI plus 1.5 per cent for each year from 2000-2001 to 2006-2007.
		This settlement is designed to enable the BBC to provide a strong and distinctive schedule of high quality programmes and remain at the forefront of broadcasting technology.
	www.pm.gov.uk /output/page4806.asp (223 words)

	BBC - About the BBC - Licence fee
		The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence.
		A fl and white TV licence is £42.
		The BBC has submitted its case for a new licence fee settlement covering the next Charter period.
	www.bbc.co.uk /info/licencefee (376 words)

	SANGHAR: Man with no TV gets bill for fee -DAWN - Local; 21 July, 2004
		Talking to journalists, Abdullah Burdi said that he received his monthly electricity bill that included Rs25 as licence fee despite the fact that he did not own a television set.
		He said that he went to the Hesco SDO for correction, but was informed that he should contact the revenue officer.
		Mr Burdi alleged that several people who did not own a television set, were made to pay the fee whereas those in his own neighbourhood, who did possess TV sets, were excluded.
	www.dawn.com /2004/07/21/local30.htm (201 words)

	RTE Business - RTE very disappointed with licence fee increase
		RTE says it is 'very disappointed' with the announcement of a £14.50 increase in the television licence fee, adding that the decision raises 'very challenging questions' for the organisation.
		She said licence holders had to be reassured that licence fee revenue was well spent and that the RTE Authority met its statutory obligations in the most cost effective manner.
		She added that the Government had agreed that costs in RTE must be reduced in line with the organisation's transformation agreement.
	www.rte.ie /business/2001/0704/rte.html (432 words)

	Television Licence Fee: 11 Jun 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Television Licence Fee: 11 Jun 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the future of the television licence fee.
		The Government intends that the television licence fee will remain the main source of BBC funding at least until the expiry of the BBC's current Royal Charter at the end of 2006.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2003-06-11.118527.h (128 words)

	TMF: Re: Poll: Television Licence Fee / Land Of Serious Topics
		Yep, I pay only the BBC Licence Fee to watch Jeremy Paxman, David Dimbleby and just a couple more..;-((((
		There are benefits in having the Satellite Equipment installed in any event...You can probably still get it all free...ie Dish..dead small now..very unobstrusive.
		Why would anyone want to pay the BBC Licence fee with all that going on?...
	boards.fool.co.uk /Message.asp?mid=8971913 (438 words)

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		PAKISTAN: PTV to earn Rs4bn thru licence fee: New collection system
		The Pakistan Television Corporation will become one of the few richest corporations in the country with a revenue of Rs4.1 billion annually collected through monthly television licence fee to be collected along with electricity bills
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=12056 (419 words)

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