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Petition to enable ex-pats access to BBC overseas
last year, mid-AprilCrafty Leak writes:
It is SHOCKING that the BBC (and I guess ABC in Australia) do not allow an “international” tournament (with half empty cricket grounds!) to be broadcast on-line “outside the UK”! Do they want to help cricket grow as a sport or not?
So what if you are a UK TV license fee payer who lives abroad? You pay for the BBC, then they deny you rights to their services because you are outside the UK - IT’S DAYLIGHT ROBBERY!
There is a campaign on the 10 Downing Street website to allow non-UK users access to BBC services:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BBC-4-Expats/
Check it out and SIGN it! All it involves is entering your passport number - simple really, as the technology is there!
Worth signing. I have friends overseas who are continually frustrated by the lack of access to TMS while still holding their UK passport. I don’t doubt it’s technically possible, but there is no doubt a whole mile-long length of red tape to go through first. So…sign up.
Strictly for our amusement?
2 years ago, at the end of SeptemberSo Ramps is going dancing. I had a chat with him the other day which you can read at Cricinfo. Should be fun to watch; he’s pretty down-to-earth about the whole thing. I wonder if Gough will be watching…
Meanwhile, I’m in Devon - but it’s been a day to forget….
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