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posted by martyb on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.

BBC:

More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.

London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.

A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.

BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.

Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:29PM (#759579)

    Yes, a license fee is collected to fund the BBC, which is otherwise not assisted by public money. I believe it is also supposed to be remitted if you stream anything from the BBC's online service (iPlayer?). Or at least that is what I have gathered from the "Oi, you got a loicense?" meme.

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday November 09 2018, @07:50AM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 09 2018, @07:50AM (#759763)

    Correct, although other broadcasters with some public service broadcast remist (such as Channel 4) also receive money from the license fee.

    Until a few years, the law only required a license to watch or record live broadcasts of TV. That excluded watching catch-up streams, but not live streams. As streaming services have become mainstream now, that loophole was removed.

    (Radio, in live or catch-up form, is license free.)