Thousands still tune into black and white televisions in UK

Almost 30,000 people across the UK still tune into their favourite programmes on black and white TV sets.

The figures were released by TV Licensing to mark the 40th anniversary of the first colour transmissions on BBC1 and ITV. There 28,000 black and white licence holders included 1,950 in Scotland.



The figures showed the black and white sets have not yet been consigned to history despite the rise of flat-screens and the iPlayer.

The first colour TV broadcasts began in 1967 on BBC2 and on 15 November 1969 on BBC1 and ITV. The first colour pictures were seen on BBC1 in Scotland in December 1969.