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It’s even crazier to watch tv you have to have a license.. I never knew that. But it’s like paying your non-over the air tv bill.
It's better thought of as a tax that funds the BBC, but it can't be called a tax because it's not run by the government.
It's an outdated idea though that doesn't make any sense in this era because it means that technically if you want to watch any live TV at all then you have to pay the BBC money even if you don't watch anything by them.
Or you could just not answer the door in the extremely rare case that any enforcement officers actually come around and instead watch TV for free.
It pays for quality BBC programming. BBC News is horrible, but BBC dramas, documentaries, and kids shows are top-tier and I'd happily pay for that, license or tax or otherwise
BBC news would be fine if they just fired some of the presenters who are obviously biased. Maybe now the Tory plant what's his face has gone (although ironically not for the reasons he should have been fired) BBC news might get better.