Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Sandy wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37226>:

<< Doesn't the government have better things to attend to than how we
get our television reception? >>

It's because the government allocates the wavelengths for
electromagnetic spectrum broadcasting - When I first saw a chart of
which wavelengths are allocated for which type of broadcast, the only
types were AM radio, FM radio, Television, Police Radio, and CB radio.
Ham radio must have been in there somewhere. But I saw one of those
charts about ten years ago and it was divided into so many little
pieces that I couldn't even read them all, like for cell phones and
for satellite-to-earth communication and for wireless LANs and so on.

That was a digression. My point is that the government allocated
frequencies to all the TV broadcast stations for free on the theory
that they broadcast 'in the public interest'. Then they allocated all
those stations more frequencies, for free, so they could start digital
broadcasting without having to stop analog broadcasting first. Now the
government wants its frequencies (the ones allocated to analog TV)
back, so it can auction them off for those kinds of uses that didn't
exist back in the 1970s and get some money.