Pretty sure you are wrong. I'll let someone in the U.K. verify though.
https://www.freeview.co.uk/support/...oes-freeview-hd-cost.html#2QdiFCtSzz8h1sjs.97
This is the channels
https://www.freeview.co.uk/why-freeview/freeview-hd#imJLbVQt3zstj0h6.97
You think that's strange? Get this: In most areas of the US, if you rent a home, you pay no taxes to the local school district, even if you happened to have 12 kids attending school. But if you own a home, and you'd never had children, you pay property taxes to fund schools.
You pay the taxes as part of your rent. In many locales, the tax rate on rental properties is higher than for owner-occupied housing.You think that's strange? Get this: In most areas of the US, if you rent a home, you pay no taxes to the local school district, even if you happened to have 12 kids attending school. But if you own a home, and you'd never had children, you pay property taxes to fund schools.
In theory.You pay the taxes as part of your rent.
You think that's strange? Get this: In most areas of the US, if you rent a home, you pay no taxes to the local school district, even if you happened to have 12 kids attending school. But if you own a home, and you've never even had children, you pay property taxes to fund schools.
Paying for something that benefits everyone, it's called being part of society.In theory.
Is it based on the number of kids you have in school? No. Do you pay less rent if you're 50 and have never had a child? No.
You think that's strange? Get this: In most areas of the US, if you rent a home, you pay no taxes to the local school district, even if you happened to have 12 kids attending school. But if you own a home, and you've never even had children, you pay property taxes to fund schools.
instead of pointing your dish at a satellite you just point it at a tower.
In theory.
Is it based on the number of kids you have in school? No. Do you pay less rent if you're 50 and have never had a child? No.
My area benefits in that they have a Do Not Ask policy and >12% of the student body is made up of a demographic in which it is estimated half are illegals living in the county. So yeah, those benefit greatly! But considering the decline in the school system's rating (compared to those around it) while the march of increasing taxation continues the ROI seems smaller to everyone, and even smaller to those like me without children.Kinda necessary. There's a twofold problem. First, schools are f'in expensive. While you may not DIRECTLY have a benefit of schools in your area, I can guarantee that your entire area (unless you're in one of those special areas....) reaps the benefit of not having thousands of non-educated little ankle biters looking for jobs.
Next - doing it based on income or sales tax makes it very volatile. In the past, property taxes were pretty consistent. Volatility makes a budget very hard to manage. Of course, the no-cost lending has made housing almost as risky as other ventures... so.
Also keep in mind the quality of the programming and most certainly the quality in the technical delivery was much better in the UK than the USA for analog OTA. For instance, 540 lines vs. 480. And we paid for OTA in different ways. Anyone remember Texaco Star Theater, which Texaco is now known as Chevron. Imagine the first high successful OTA show on America was sponsored by a gasoline company.