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Re:I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do... by porlw on Sunday July 29, 2012 @05:58AM (#4308018)
I wish people would stop harping on about the UK TV licence fee.

TV in the US is not free - you pay for it every time you buy something made by a company that spends money advertising on TV.

It's practically impossible to opt out of paying for TV in the US. At least in the UK you can opt out if you genuinely don't want to watch anything.

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Re:I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do... by cheald on Monday July 30, 2012 @03:12AM (#4311252)
Frankly, I'd rather pay £150/year for all the BBC programming (without commercials, including full online on-demand streaming) than $720/year for my cable company's "basic" package (which I continue to pay for by sitting through advertising for a third of the show's airtime anyway). If we bought that model to the US, I'd be ecstatic.
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