Jul. 15, 2026
BBC confirms bad news as 500,000 UK households cancel TV licence
By the end of the 2025/26 financial year, there were 23.3 million TV licences in force across the UK, down by 540,000 compared with the previous year. The BBC said the decline was largely driven by more households no longer watching content that... Read more.
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