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Telly addicts

How many tv channels did you have as a child?

139 replies

OneUmberJoker · 07/12/2025 20:27

5

OP posts:
PandoraSocks · 07/12/2025 20:27

3

NotrialNodeal · 07/12/2025 20:27

Same OP.

purpleme12 · 07/12/2025 20:28

Four. I definitely remember when channel 5 was launched!

Moonlightfrog · 07/12/2025 20:31

4

NotrialNodeal · 07/12/2025 20:31

I've just realised in my younger years it was 4 and then channel 5 came into existence. We never really watched that channel though, didn't have any good programmes!

k1233 · 07/12/2025 20:31

2

Leavemealone1986 · 07/12/2025 20:31

3 when I was born but I dont remember that time. I remember 4 (I was about 17/18 when Chanel 5 launched).

Onemorestepalongtheroad · 07/12/2025 20:31

4 in primary school. I remember 5 being launched and watching home and away’s first episode

Americano75 · 07/12/2025 20:31

I remember watching the channel 4 launch. 😆

BuoyedWithOptimisticIgnorance · 07/12/2025 20:32

Technically 3 but we weren't allowed to watch ITV because it was common.

RosesAndHellebores · 07/12/2025 20:33

3 - I was working in London when Ch4 launched and remember Roland Rat and the Green Goddess! And DH and I remember different programmes because his ITV was Yorksshire and mine was Anglia.

MissAmbrosia · 07/12/2025 20:33

3

QwestSprout · 07/12/2025 20:33

Very young - 4, slightly older child - 5, still a child legally - 30 (Freeview).

Bbq1 · 07/12/2025 20:33

3 early on then Channel 4 aired. I remember being about 7 and watching the launch at my friends house.

DramaAlpaca · 07/12/2025 20:34

We had 3. I remember Channel 4 being launched; a bunch of us at university sat in front of the TV in the Students' Union watching the first ever episode of Countdown. I'm old!

Tillow4ever · 07/12/2025 20:34

purpleme12 · 07/12/2025 20:28

Four. I definitely remember when channel 5 was launched!

Me too!

SwedishEdith · 07/12/2025 20:35

When did BBC 2 start? We used to rent our tv (normal then) and I have a memory of us getting an upgrade so we could get BBC 2.

Okiedokie123 · 07/12/2025 20:37

42
but only on Thursdays

KittyHigham · 07/12/2025 20:38

2

Sunshineclouds11 · 07/12/2025 20:39

purpleme12 · 07/12/2025 20:28

Four. I definitely remember when channel 5 was launched!

Same!

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Inextremis · 07/12/2025 20:39

2, but we only ever watched the BBC. Probably because it was too much bother to walk across the room to change channels!

KittyHigham · 07/12/2025 20:40

SwedishEdith · 07/12/2025 20:35

When did BBC 2 start? We used to rent our tv (normal then) and I have a memory of us getting an upgrade so we could get BBC 2.

Like you I remember our tv was rented.

PandoraSocks · 07/12/2025 20:41

Americano75 · 07/12/2025 20:31

I remember watching the channel 4 launch. 😆

Me too!

OutsideOfComfortable · 07/12/2025 20:41

Three, but only allowed to watch 2.

Tryingatleast · 07/12/2025 20:41

Five until sky arrived in the 90s! MTV was a revelation as was the Simpsons!!!!