Johned, Its the crafty implication that the TV licence is purely to fund the BBC, that irritates me, while its true that the entire money collected goes the BBC, the fact remains that the TV licence is not a fee for using BBC services, its a government imposed TAX, which they are now getting the BBC to collect, for using any equipment capable of receiving a radio or TV transmission irrespective of the channels so you would be still breaking the law even if you never used any BBC services.