How many tv channels did you have as a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

5

1 BBC then 2 when ITV was added.

We're so old! 😆 🤣

Same here, my mum wouldn't let us watch ITV.
I remember when channel 4 launched and it was really good. Was allowed to watch it!

3, although we didn’t have a tv for a while.

We got sent home early from netball practice when I was 11 or 12 to watch Channel 4 launch. Our reception waa rubbish.

This 😕😳

3…BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. I can still remember seeing colour TV for the first time stood outside Rumbelows shop window! We didn’t get a colour set until 1972 (the year my sister was born). It was so exciting! 😂

Two. On budget day, they moved BBC1 children's programmes to BBC2. We couldn't watch, as you needed 625 lines and we only had 405. If someone asked you round for tea the first question would often be 'Have you got colour?'

Same here @Pinkbox

Two full time BBC1 and ITV I still remember the national anthem being played when bbc1 shut down at around 11pm every night. BBC2 was a part time channel which played the test card showing the photo of the blonde haired girl with the balloons and clown doll much of the time.

I remember this very well…it was my 18th birthday and we watched the launch with party poppers 😂

I know. One minute we are bright young things watching the launch of an exciting new TV channel, the next...

3 then chnl 4 launch when I was 16or17 iirc

UntiI I was 7 - zero, in a country where there was no TV. Then one. Then (different country) zero due to war, until age 10 when I went to an English boarding school and the TV was switched on once a week for Top of the Pops!

Three, until Ch4 launched in 1982 then Ch5 in 1997.

I love that everyone watched the same programs at the same time back then. We had so much to talk about every morning at school.

My formative years were in Alaska (60s-70s) PBS (Public Broadcasting Corp) in the morning and Nbc from Noon on. If you had money you could get cable, but didn't know anyone who had it.

Correction, we didn’t have cartoons every day, I remember it wrong. I just found an old tv programme online from when I was 5 years old. It reads:
7:30pm - news, followed by some programme about how amazing our president was, followed by news. Tv off at 10pm. So 2.5 hours of propaganda.

But that was during the week. At the weekend we had 2 hours of tv in the afternoon followed by 4 hours in the evening. Usually folk music, propaganda, and some cheap movie bought from our communist neighbours. Yay! 🤣

Four, five if we tilted the aerial in exactly the right way but it was always fuzzy

Same!

I’m pretty old. There were 3 and then Ch4 started when I was about 16.

I'm another one who technically had 3 but was only allowed to watch 2. ITV was very frowned upon, apart from Upstairs Downstairs, for some reason.

1. I remember channel 4 coming and then channel 5.

I still have our first telly.

3 then 4.

Me too! Has a big fuzzy 5 in the corner! Used to play bamboozle on tele text with my df on a Friday!

3 until I was a teenager then 4.

4, then in 1997 when I was 14 channel 5 was launched, it was very exciting at the time 😂