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Originally Posted by Mr K
I find it interesting that TVL say they don't check up on b&w licences and just take people's word for it! The no of B&w licences might now increase dramatically  |
I'm not sure how they administer the sale of black & white licenses, but I do know that you can't buy them online. Presumably some human involvement is used to try and weed out those trying it on.
The number of monochrome licenses has been decreasing year on year since they were overtaken by the sale of colour licenses in the early eighties.
Last year there were 8,000 monochrome licenses in use (with the vast majority being in London), so at this rate they will naturally die out within a few years. I suspect that this is partly due to older people who were content with black & white either moving into residential care/with families, dying or becoming entitled to a free TVL at age 75 when they might as well go colour. Some postcodes are 100% colour already:
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/med...=1369783627625
A lot of sight impaired people use black & white to cut costs as they cannot appreciate the colour pictures, the relatively few who cannot see anything at all are able to use a box that picks up TV sound only and doesn't require a TV licence.