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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @09:39PM
Funnily enough, most of these places if they're manned usually do have a License as there's usually a TV somewhere on the premises, this has been the case every place I've worked.
Know thee not the ways of the crack BBC Maritime License enforcement brigade (Underwater branch)? [divingalmanac.com]
(Though seriously, I do remember an old Black&White Public Propaganda Film showing inspectors doing the rounds of boats in some harbour looking for unlicensed TV sets).
They might be logging the IP numbers and doing traffic analysis to identify such behaviour, but as the people behind the collection of the license (Crapita) are spectacularly useless [duckduckgo.com] I wouldn't worry.