It used to be easy with CRT TVs with their enormous HV flyback transformers
now that LCDs are becoming so commonplace they don't require the same 30,000 volts spikes at a characteristic frequency which is easy to pick up with a directional antenna. Some people used to build an improv Faraday cage to try and get around it and/or to stop the CIA from reading what was on their PC monitors... tinfoil hat time.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 11 Nov 2011, 13:14, 1 reply)

I don't have a TV
Having recently moved, I got the standard 'death destruction hell and pestilence' letters from the licencing people, which I ignored. A couple of weeks ago I was mowing the front lawn when a man came up and told me he was from the TV licencing people.
"Haven't got one" I told him.
"Do you mind if I have a look?" he replied.
"No mate, knock yourself out - the door's open".
"Well that won't be neccesary sir, anyone who'll let one of us wander round unsupervised obviously doesn't have a set" he said - and then he got back in his car and buggered off!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 14:33, closed)

You miust be in the tiniest
of minorities.

I'd have told him to piss off.
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