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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Friday November 09 2018, @08:08AM (1 child)
They might have been paying by recurring direct debit since they owned a B&W TV, and haven't update the payment since.
It's a long stretch to suggest that's the case for all of them. though.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday November 09 2018, @06:06PM
"All", perhaps not.
Almost all: certainly. Any B&W TV set must be at least 30 years old now. They are museum pieces and repairs are likely to cost more than a new set.
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