How many tv channels did you have as a child?

[reecejackox]

5 for myself

[Zizu]

Just 2 or 3 as a kid


They went off around 11pm each night

[Crimson Dynamo]

3

[hijaxers]

As a child we had 3

[AnnieK]

3 until i was in my teens then 4....

[James]

3 or 4. We didn't get Channel 4 here until a few years after it launched.

I got Sky satellite TV at the end of 1995.

[bots]

2 as a kid. BBC 2 came along as a big leap into the future :laugh:

[bots]

Just 2 or 3 as a kid


They went off around 11pm each night

with the national anthem :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Many people on TIbb will never recall having to get up out your seat and go and change channels by pressing buttons on the TV

[Zizu]

Many people on TIbb will never recall having to get up out your seat and go and change channels by pressing buttons on the TV


Worse still not being able to pause or record anything you wanted ..

The number of times we missed a vital part of a series or even a full episode due to someone calling to visit or ringing you midway

[Cherie]

we had one RTE One, it didn't start until 5pm and finished at 11pm and then when I was around 5 or 6 we got RTE 2

[GoldHeart]

4 and a half as channel 5 was usually on the blink :rolleyes: .

[Gusto Brunt]

Four.

[Oliver_W]

Five, and Channel 5 was nearly always "snowy".



I don't know if this is a false memory, but in one particular house I THINK we could get SkyOne if the telly was tuned in a certain way, but it was awful quality. That might be conflating with a particularly bad reception for C5, but I.vaguely remember a weird and shortlived glitch with SkyOne that allowed normal TVs with a certain aerial being able to get it in very specific circumstances?

[Zizu]

Five, and Channel 5 was nearly always "snowy".



I don't know if this is a false memory, but in one particular house I THINK we could get SkyOne if the telly was tuned in a certain way, but it was awful quality. That might be conflating with a particularly bad reception for C5, but I.vaguely remember a weird and shortlived glitch with SkyOne that allowed normal TVs with a certain aerial being able to get it in very specific circumstances?


A snowy picture was the result of a poor reception or a poorly situated aerial back in the day wasn’t it ??

[James]

On certain days I could get Northern Ireland channels albeit snowy, from my aerial.

[millyrose]

Many people on TIbb will never recall having to get up out your seat and go and change channels by pressing buttons on the TV

That was nearly always me as i was the youngest :laugh: and in black and white.

[millyrose]

Worse still not being able to pause or record anything you wanted ..

The number of times we missed a vital part of a series or even a full episode due to someone calling to visit or ringing you midway

Having to watch it when it was on and sometimes missing something if 2 programmes where on at the same time.

[millyrose]

A snowy picture was the result of a poor reception or a poorly situated aerial back in the day wasn’t it ??

We was lucky because our aerial was on the roof so we had a good reception.

[rusticgal]

2 I think..

Mind you at least we found something to watch...with 2000 channels I struggle to find anything...:laugh:

[Strictly Jake]

4 and i remember when they launched channel 5. Simpler times when everyone watched the same show together as a family. You didnt get a choice. So i was brought up on heartbeat, corrie and father ted