Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[Tonks]

Does this mean that all TV in the UK has to pay the license?? Don't you 
have any free TV that does have commercials? I see all of the cool UK 
sitcoms free on PBS. But I don't get cable and can only get about 7 
stations with my rabbit ears sort of reception. That will be gone come 
Feb. 2009 unless I get a converter box or a new TV. When I want to 
enjoy lots of good movies and cable TV I have to wait till a friend 
goes on vacation and I house-sit for her. That is only once or twice a 
year. Then I enjoy doing all of my laundry in her machines and watch 
her TV all day and half the night. Best that I don't have cable at 
home, I would never get anything done. 

Tonks_op