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sammy
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by sammy » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:16 pm
Karhunkoski wrote:Anyone know if the TV licence is also required for owning a radio?
No, not required.
But -surprise, surprise- there
used to be such a thing as a radiolupa!
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolupa
Can't much remember it myself though (then again we didn't have a radio at home at the time

only the telly... IIRC the telly licence used to be a bit cheaper, if you had a B/W set - but that's changed too)
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Karhunkoski
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by Karhunkoski » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:40 pm
Wow, I never knew that, thanks Sammy!
There again. back in those days the telly didn't start broadcasting until early evening, first on one, and then on the other available channel.

Political correctness is the belief that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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Jukka Aho
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by Jukka Aho » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:59 pm
sammy wrote:Karhunkoski wrote:Anyone know if the TV licence is also required for owning a radio?
No, not required.
But -surprise, surprise- there
used to be such a thing as a radiolupa!
Helsinki University of Technology students living in the Otaniemi student village used to circumvent the radio license requirement by building their own public address system. Some stories about that (in Finnish):
(More stories relating to the Otaniemi student village – some of them quite funny – can be found
here.)
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