NO TV Commercials on french TV from 6pm to 6am ! - Page 3

Stan4dSteph · 01-05-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Well, if they're just state run channels then I don't have an opinion any longer. They can do what they want with them.

Does France have TV licenses like in the UK?

If you mean that you have to pay a yearly fee if you own a TV, then yes France does have that.

dlrp_bopazot · 01-05-2009, 12:26 PM

here's an interesting article about this

http://www.france24.com/en/20090105-...rime-time-news

it wont affect our TV Bills but other private Channels will see they taxes increased .

Now the French public TV employees were on strike today but it wont change because our President would like to see all TV commercials banned by 2010 .
Then the French Public TV will broadcast their programs with NO Commercials at all .

alphabassettgrrl · 01-05-2009, 10:08 PM

I'd love to have commercial-free tv. It's so nice when we download them via on-demand, or by bit-torrent, with the commercials cut out. Second-best is TiVo, fastforwarding through them.

I suspect fewer people have tv's if they have to pay a fee to have it; I suspect this would lead to having lives and going to a pub or some such to watch certain shows. This sounds highly superior to the current state of affairs here.

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dlrp_bopazot Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Paris - France Posts: 323	here's an interesting article about this http://www.france24.com/en/20090105-...rime-time-news it wont affect our TV Bills but other private Channels will see they taxes increased . Now the French public TV employees were on strike today but it wont change because our President would like to see all TV commercials banned by 2010 . Then the French Public TV will broadcast their programs with NO Commercials at all .
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