– How do authorities check if you’re watching TV without a licence in the UK?
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The myth is that they have the ability to track down the signals emited by your TV antenna when connected to an active receiver. And although this is theoretically possible nobody have been able to demonstrate such a device in practice and no evidence of such a device have ever been found.
Most of the time they find out because shops selling TVs are required to tell the authorities of any units sold. They then issue investigators who will quite literally peak through the windows to try to see the TV or look for the antenna. If they suspect you have a TV that can receive licensed programming then they will warn you and try to get you to pay your license fee. But you can still refuse and challenge their evidence at which case they might back down or they might start the court procedures.
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