Here in the UK there is a license fee for possessing a TV (it's how the BBC is financed: no advertising revenue). It currently costs £157.50 (around $210) per annum. The last time I had a TV, almost 30 years ago, it was less than £80.
When I changed address a year ago I almost instantly received a letter from the TV licensing authority saying I didn't have a TV license. I wrote to them saying I didn't have a TV. I also told them I would NOT allow them access to the property without a warrant.
Today I received a letter with TV LICENSING on the envelope. I expected it to be a similar letter to last year, but no: it is a confirmation that I don't need a license. I didn't even know there was such a thing!
So I have what is, in effect, a non-TV license.
I wonder what faceless bureaucrat though this one up!
I've been helping a mate do up a property to move into. We gutted the place and started afresh. He received 3 reminders saying the property had no TV licence, it also had no aerial or windows for that matter...lol. The last demand with menaces said they'd send an inspector even after he'd replied the property was currently empty. Said inspector duly turned up one day to see the non existent licence, we invited him in, he looked around at the tools and plaster scattered everywhere, and said, the property is empty, (no shit Sherlock) then he said, you'll need a license when you move in, mate said I'll transfer the one I've got, inspector said you never said you had another property, Mick said, well you never asked!!! ... End of conversation...lol