TV content in pubs?

Edups

Just seen this:
Age Tester Site Checker
Serve Legal LTD - Westtown, County Waterford
Part-time
Serve Legal are recruiting NOW and have work available every weekend all over Ireland N.I. and R.O.I.. We are looking for persons aged 18 years old to join the team. The work involves visiting a number of pubs and recording what is being shown on their TV. This work will be available almost every weekend though there may be testing on other days of the week.
If you think youve got what it takes to join the Serve Legal team and are over 18 years old, apply now. Applications must be made online at www.servelegal.co.ukapply.

What in the name of jaysus do pubs be putting on the TV that this has become a job? Are they throwing on babestation or some thing? And in fairness even if they were after 9pm children aren't allowed in pubs so what would it matter as long as the other people there didn't mind. I have to wonder how inconspicuous you could be recording the TV anyway. Someone sitting at the bar with their phone out (presumably how they record) won't blend in.

Is this truly things gone mad?

whoopsadoodles

They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.

tomwaterford

Do you get an allowance for business expenses though

The_Valeyard

Hate TV and loud music in pubs.

kfallon

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.

I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'

whoopsadoodles

kfallon wrote: »

I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'

That's why they change the glass every so often

Walter2016

Here's a different version of the advert.

Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

Apply now @ skysnitches.com

Edups

Walter2016 wrote: »

Here's a different version of the advert.

Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

Apply now @ skysnitches.com

Ahhhhh

Bastard that murdoch he used to be a lovely boy

dreamers75

Walter2016 wrote: »

Here's a different version of the advert.

Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

Apply now @ skysnitches.com

What pub shows is what gets people in the door, damn right they should pay for it.

cml387

OP I think you may have the wrong idea here.

This is SKY ensuring that publicans are legitimately showing football on SKY to their customers by having paid the correct (and considerably larger) subscription.

This has been going on for years.

Edups

dreamers75 wrote: »

What pub shows is what gets people in the door, damn right they should pay for it.

They do pay. But why should smaller pubs pay 15k a year to show some football match? I don't own a pub but I'll be ****ed if I would.

The_Valeyard

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Hate TV and loud music in pubs.

This, a trillion times. This.

Fleawuss

New pub game! Spot the Snitch! Who's the Rent-a-Rat?

Vic_08

kfallon wrote: »

I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'

A serial number generated by the box is displayed on sky sports channels so the account used can also be traced.

Eggonyerface

Vic_08 wrote: »

A serial number generated by the box is displayed on sky sports channels so the account used can also be traced.

That's to track who's supplying online streams a far as I know

Edups

Fleawuss wrote: »

New pub game! Spot the Snitch! Who's the Rent-a-Rat?

Whoever is eating cheese.

dd972

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Hate TV and loud music in pubs.

Don't think the The George will be your cup of tea then..

uch

Pubs should't have TV's, thats where we go to talk to each other, thats why we call every one a cúnt

uch

dd972 wrote: »

Don't think the The George will be your cup of tea then..

Didn't know the George had TV's

Ursus Horribilis

uch wrote: »

Pubs shouldn't have TVs, that's where we go to talk to each other, that's why we call every one a cúnt

It's the loud music that gets my goat. It's so that people can't actually have conversations with each other without shouting and getting dry mouths. Dry mouths = more beer

finglashoop

Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground

finglashoop

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-17150054

Surreptitious

finglashoop wrote: »

Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground

Say what now?

Hammer89

I like a football match in a pub. I also love seeing the disapproving rugby heads look on from the lounge, probably tutting away at the sound of an occasional curse word from the apparent working-class rapscallions who flock to watch English football teams kick a bit of leather around. Their faces say, 'Knackers!' but their eyes say, 'Why not Leinster?'.

byte

Surreptitious wrote: »

Say what now?

I'd suspect they're on about this case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17150054

I'm open to correction, as memory fails me now, but that's why there's a Premier League logo graphic stuck on their games now, as it's a copyright image. Similar for other leagues. I think Sky Sports might be the only exception, where I assume their logo is what is the copyright.

lawred2

Edups wrote: »

Just seen this:
Age Tester Site Checker
Serve Legal LTD - Westtown, County Waterford
Part-time
Serve Legal are recruiting NOW and have work available every weekend all over Ireland N.I. and R.O.I.. We are looking for persons aged 18 years old to join the team. The work involves visiting a number of pubs and recording what is being shown on their TV. This work will be available almost every weekend though there may be testing on other days of the week.
If you think youve got what it takes to join the Serve Legal team and are over 18 years old, apply now. Applications must be made online at www.servelegal.co.ukapply.

What in the name of jaysus do pubs be putting on the TV that this has become a job? Are they throwing on babestation or some thing? And in fairness even if they were after 9pm children aren't allowed in pubs so what would it matter as long as the other people there didn't mind. I have to wonder how inconspicuous you could be recording the TV anyway. Someone sitting at the bar with their phone out (presumably how they record) won't blend in.

Is this truly things gone mad?

Sky/Virgin or whatever without a public subscription

B.A._Baracus

I remember when the starview boxes were popular in 2007-2009 so many pubs had them. No one gave a toss. Wouldn't be surprised to hear pubs are paying non-commerical rates or even using streaming boxes :pac:

Outlaw Pete

uch wrote: »

Didn't know the George had TV's

Sure they easily have more than any other pub in Dublin.

whoopsadoodles

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.

I've just had an even better idea that those lads (the checkers) can use to make even more money.

Sure, take the crown shilling from Sky to go into pubs with your camera to be a grass. Then, when you see something you shouldn't, pull the owner/landlord/supervisor aside for a (*cough*) "private word". Double your money at the pub's expense by returning to your student bedsit and holding your camera up to old VHS tapes made by your parents of The Late Late Show.

Edups

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've just had an even better idea that those lads (the checkers) can use to make even more money.

Sure, take the crown shilling from Sky to go into pubs with your camera to be a grass. Then, when you see something you shouldn't, pull the owner/landlord/supervisor aside for a (*cough*) "private word". Double your money at the pub's expense by returning to your student bedsit and holding your camera up to old VHS tapes made by your parents of The Late Late Show.

I think the only thing that will double is the pain your feel as pub customers kick your **** in for being a snake

finglashoop

finglashoop wrote: »

Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground

Irish pub landlord I know in London (that's a pub landlord from Ireland, not the landlord of an Irish Pub) hung a photo of Steve Staunton in the bar with a warning that staff were not to accept checks from this man, or probably even serve him a pint if he called in.



(just for giggles of course, he didn't know Stash, just didn't like his style).