Radio licences  
at 31 March each year

Wireless receiving licences were introduced on 1 November 1922. The figure for that year is thus not strictly comparable with the following years' data.
From 1946 a combined sound and television receiving licence was required by television viewers and the number of sound-only licences begins to fall. The two figures for each year should be combined for a complete number of licences for radio reception.

	total			total
1922	35,755		1946	10,347,831
1923	595,496		1947	10,713,298
1924	1,129,578		1948	11,081,977
1925	1,645,207		1949	11,567,227
1926	2,178,259		1950	11,819,190
1927	2,263,894		1951	11,546,925
1928	2,470,639		1952	11,244,141
1929	2,717,367		1953	10,688,684
1930	3,075,828		1954	10,125,512
			1955	9,414,224

 

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