You’d better pay your TV licence fee. Day and night, the BBC’s detector vans roam the streets seeking out unlicensed viewers. You could be next! We haven’t heard quite so much about these ...

TV licence 1 Articles . TV Detector Vans Once Prowled The Streets Of England. ... Alternatively, a search warrant may be granted on the basis of evidence gleaned from a TV detector van.

2007 the TV license was replaced by a “media license”, payable by anyone owning access to the internet at the excess of 250KB/s, whist 2021 it includes “anyone owning access to the internet ...

‘The van was only a gimmick’: secrets of the TV licence inspectors. From ostentatious vehicles to Hitchcock-style horror adverts, attempts to catch ‘TV spongers’ have moved with the times.

And the TV Licence company, subcontracted by the BBC, has warned it has a fleet of ‘detector vans’ ready to issue £1,000 fines to any household caught watching the Olympics without a TV ...