A CRACKDOWN on TV licence dodgers netted a total of £6,500 in fines in just one day at a court.
Hyndburn magistrates convicted 24 people and a further 13 admitted watching TV without a licence.
The 37 offenders were also ordered to pay a total of £1,785 costs.
They were warned to buy a licence if they wanted to keep their TV sets, or they could face stiffer penalties.
TV Licensing officers recently launched a month-long campaign to snare licence cheats across East Lancashire.
They will target homes where there is no record of a licence being held.
A spokesman for TV Licensing said: "We catch 1,000 licence dodgers every day. Anyone thinking of watching television without a valid licence will be caught.
"We would much rather people bought a licence in the first place and avoided a court case."
Information on TV licences is available by ringing 0990 763763.
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