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<OF12EA682C.3CEC4290-ON88257A53.006999C9-88257A53.0069D8B3@US.Schneider-E
lectric.com>, dated Tue, 7 Aug 2012,
ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com writes:
I always thought the idea of licensing a receiver was odd. Was it just
because the older television receivers were efficient unintentional
radiators?
No, it's historical. Since the telegraph was introduced the UK
government department known as the 'General Post Office' (GPO) had a
monopoly on all forms of communication. (There were jokes about 'winking
and flirting licences'.)
When the British Broadcasting Company was more or less forced to become
a public corporation so as not, via some complex legal reasoning, to
break the monopoly, receivers were licensed to help fund it.
This total monopoly lasted until the 1980s. Some remnants still exist,
and the TV licence still funds the BBC.
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much, too early, say they've got is exactly right, thus throwing them into
total confusion.
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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