I just saw somewhere that there is a 187 per year tax on TV's in the UK??? Is that per TV?
Per household. Is that 187 in USD? It's currently GBP116 for colour (less for B&W). The money goes to the BBC (or a lot of it does), financing advertisement-free national TV and radio. There used to be a corresponding radio tax, but that was done away with some time ago.

Peter