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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
Thanks, Geoff. I now recall that all radios, and then TVs, had to be registered in the UK. This was something done in WWII, wasn't it? Or was it started as a luxury tax? Or do I have it all wrong?
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It's actually quite common throughout Europe. The government has always controlled the key media for communication - the press, then radio, then television. Commercial radio and television is actually a fairly recent phenomenon over here (well, in the last few decades).
The tv tax is to support the government run channels (which used to be all of them) - even though they now carry advertisements just like the commercial channels do.