🍵 🎛️ 🥁 TV detector vans still roam UK streets 🤷🏻 👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾 🔩

You might not know, but the United Kingdom requires every household that uses a television to acquire a license for this privilege. Introduced in 1923 after the passage of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, a license was required for anyone using a radio. In 1946, television was also licensed. The funds collected from citizens are used as the main source of funding for the British National Public Broadcasting Organization. In short, the BBC.

Yes, you got it right. Every family listening to radio or watching television has to go to the post office, pay money, and purchase this license. The postal service automatically transfers the money received directly to the BBC.

To ensure that not a single penny for watching TV or listening to the radio goes past the company's budget, the BBC created and launched special vans, whose task was to find illegal TVs.

Typical TV license bill. Separate licenses for black and white and color sets still exist: 6000 licenses for black and white TVs were issued in 2019.

The van is watching you

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