We just hid the TV under my bed until the van had gone away again.

Our halls of residence (Stephenson Hall, Sheffield) JCR ran a scheme. At the beginning of the year you sold your TV to the JCR for a pound, the JCR would then rent the TV back to you for the rest of the year for a pound, the JCR had a TV licence.

No idea whether the scheme had any legal basis, we never got raided...