How many tv channels did you have as a child?

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5

I remember channel 4 being launched when I was a pre-teen. Brookside was amazing!

2

2

BBC and ITV but was only allowed to watch BBC because as someone above has said ITV was common. .
I have a lovely long list of things that my darling late Mother deemed common that I'd like to share with BOUYED to see if we are related.

1. Then the 5th started.

Me too 😂

none as we never had a television.

3, but we didn't watch ITV because of the adverts!

We didn't have a TV when I was very young. We got one when I was in my last year at primary school in 1969. Back then we only had BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. We didn't have 24/7 TV and often had the testcard during the day when there ws nothing on. During the oil crisis in 1973 when we had loads of power cuts TV shut down at 10.30 every night.

I remember when Channel 4 launched in 1982 because it was my birthday.

3 when I was born, 4 during my childhood. I was a teenager when Channel 5 launched but we couldn’t get it for a few years because there were issues in some areas depending on how your aerial pointed or something.

BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, RTE1, RTE2 (grew up in Dublin so we could get the British channels).

That was the final tally - to begin with we had BBC1 and 2, RTE (there was only one initially), and ITV.

I grew up in Ireland with 1 channel, RTE.

Just one, because you needed another aerial pointing in a different direction to get ITV. Also a lot of tv's couldn't receive ITV anyway.

3, and it was black and white tv.

I remember when Changel 4 launched. It was huge news. It started on November 2nd (year?) and the first programme was Countdown.

3 until I was 12, then 4. Can't remember when Channel 5 came out.

Three until channel 4 arrived

4 - but one of them was only in Welsh!!

I remember both of these things too.

But they were separate as Home & Away launched on ITV.

For my childhood, I mostly had 4. But we did have cable tv for a while. We had a dial on the wall to change those channels, I think there were maybe 5 or so. Can’t remember what they were except (I think) Nickelodeon

I think about six (this was US): three network, the public no ads channel (PBS) and a couple local stations that did reruns of series. We weren’t allowed to watch TV on school days though.

When I was very young (in the 80s) we had 1 channel.

We had a black & white tv.
Some nights there were movies on tv, other nights there weren’t and the programme would end early after the news.
We had 10- 15 mins of rubbish cartoons every evening. They were in Russian and didn’t have subtitles/ weren’t dubbed so we just watched the images and tried to figure out what was being said. Whenever the cartoons came on, all the kids playing outside would scatter in seconds, running inside to watch tv.
Kids these days are so lucky.

Three. Except for the three months in 1979 when ITV went on strike and we only had BBC1 and 2.

3 which became 4 with Channel 4 in 1982 when i was 12 and then Channel five 15yrs later..

Loved the channel 4 music. I taped it on my tape recorder!

None.
My parents thought the screen time would make us stupid.
We had a huge library though

3 which became 4 with Channel 4 in 1982 when i was 12 and then Channel five 15yrs later..

Loved the channel 4 music. I taped it on my tape recorder!
Take a look at this video, 'channel four transmission music 1982' share.google/wmyat9O4tKPz0ozdZ

5, but the signal on the 5th was hard to dial in and there wasn’t much programming anyway.

we did get cable tv in my childhood. I don’t know how many channels that had. I do remember having to get up and hit big bulky physical switches to get to additional channels on it because there were two blocks of channels that came in on separate cabels and you had to swap back and forth.