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Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 1) by pTamok on Friday November 09 2018, @03:51PM (1 child)

    by pTamok (3042) on Friday November 09 2018, @03:51PM (#759901)

    Well, I was assuming that MDC owned the phone, and it was powered of its own internal batteries at the time.

    I am aware of the extreme convolutions of the regulations, and was trying to keep it relatively simple.

    It looks like with Brexit, the UK will probably not participate in the (digital) single market, so any hopes of ex-pats being able to get BBC legitimately across the EU/EEA look to be emaciatedly slim at best.

    The media conglomerates are not going to like being forced to offer pan-single market deals. It will hit their revenues, no matter what, and has the potential remove service from inhabitants of countries with below average purchasing power if the media giants play hard-ball and refuse to offer pan-single market low price deals. I can see that being spun as the EU's fault.

  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday November 09 2018, @05:23PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday November 09 2018, @05:23PM (#759941)

    Don't even get me started on Brexit. Ever since the vote the number of EU companies willing to offer me contracts has dwindled to almost nothing, and even then, only the occasional short 3 month stint, with no auto renewal or permanence offered. Companies don't want to bother with the headache and uncertainty of my ability to live and work in the EU, so go for other contractors.

    As such, I have to pack up and head back to the UK, after years living in the EU, with no idea if there will be any decent work for me there. At least I will have the TV licence harassers to entertain me again...

    Truth be told, I suspect pan-single market deals on TV access to the be the least of the UK's worries, especially if they end up with a hard Brexit, as seems likely to occur.

    > I am aware of the extreme convolutions of the regulations, and was trying to keep it relatively simple.

    Come now, how could you leave it out? Half the fun is in the convolutions of the regulations. :-) It's the only silver lining to the whole mess!