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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's because they are funded by the TV licence fee (every household in the UK has to pay a licence fee of about US$250 per year, which funds the BBC), and hence only licence fee payers - people in the UK - are eligible to download them.
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Harry, is that fee incorporated into your cable/satellite or is it part of your property tax or income tax? Or is it some other way I have yet to conceive?
I will say this, I have always been a little bummed that I can't watch BBC online content here in Canada. However, I never knew you where paying so much for it. I knew BBC is like our CBC and is publicly funded I just didn't know how much per household it was. I don't even know what it works out to here in Canada for the CBC.
At least we do have BBC Canada as poor a line up as they do run at least it's something. (And 1-2 years behind to boot)
Thanks for the info Harry. And I guess the wife and I have fallen behind on the Dr. Who front. We haven't kept up with it in a few years now. It's hard to stay current with Dr. Who and not break any laws over here. All well.