[alancalverd]

Broadcast TV signals are photons. You need a licence to receive them. What's the problem?

[Bored chemist]

All the talk of carriers and photons makes no difference.
This is still wrong.

I already said earlier the thread they are charging us a license fee to detect light,

What gets transmitted and detected is a radio wave, not light.

[guest39538]

It is electromagnetic radiation, it is non-observable light by the eye, television emitted wave-lengths of light are what we detect in our brains as pictures.
You know that.

So, the bit about a carrier was just you putting a "sciency sounding" word in for no reason.
Why do you do that?

Electromagnetic waves are carrier signals, it contains information at the right frequency . 

But you said specifically that photons are the carrier.

Well they are technically, they are super cool bits of information, information that can be detected and decoded by the brain or device.
But when I say photon, I am talking about field perturbations and energy spikes  travelling through the field. 

[guest39538]

All the talk of carriers and photons makes no difference.
This is still wrong.

I already said earlier the thread they are charging us a license fee to detect light,

What gets transmitted and detected is a radio wave, not light.

hmm, a radio wave is light as well dude. Of the invisible spectrum type.

[Bored chemist]

a radio wave is light

No

[guest39538]

a radio wave is light

No

Stop being stupid

Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. ... At 300 GHz, the corresponding wavelength is 1 mm (0.039 in), and at 3 kHz is 100 km (62 mi). Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light.