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: 2) by mth on Friday November 09 2018, @11:46AM
Does it really make sense to the B&W license to be cheaper though? Maybe it made sense when color TVs were new and the people reaping the benefit of color broadcast would be asked to pay for higher production costs. But today the production and distribution costs will be the same regardless of whether it's being watched in color or not.