You do need to buy a TV Licence if you watch or record any live TV broadcasts on any channel or platform, including (but not limited to), terrestrial channels such as BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Channel 5, digital channels such as E4 and Dave, streaming services such as YouTube, NOW...
Next came the 'MD Tweeter', a birds nest-shaped device which plugged directly into the Mega Drive's cartridge port and would "tweet" bird song at you whilst you played a game, and its big brother the 'MD Black Bird' which behaved in a similar manner, except with more of an arpeggiat...
If the TV point is on the wrong side of the room you can (on a temporary basis) just run a coax lead between the TV and the point as that will prove that everything is working ok. When you know it is ok then you just need to get a new TV point installed, should easy enough ...