Originally posted by Panther_Black_VX
Two excellent points!! I was even SHOCKED to here that there is a "TV" tax in England. Taxing the number of TVs a household has.
That is how they fund the BBC. I'm pretty sure it is on a per tuner basis and it gets a little weird when you can watch tv on your computer. They really do have "tv detector" trucks that cruise around checking to see how many TVs are turned on in a house to see if it exceeds the number that taxes were paid on.

Compared to what we get over here with commercials, the BBC is probably worth it. Their stuff is about on par with privately funded channels like HBO and Showtime.