How many tv channels did you have as a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

5

3 then I was in my teens when Channel 4 launched

Really surprised that a number of others weren’t allowed to watch the third channel either! I had always thought it was a thing my Mum thought up. I grew up not knowing what people were talking about when they discussed Corrie! Funny that I watched Channel 4 from the start though, presumably because I was a teenager and wasn’t going to take no for an answer 🙃

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3 although we often had to retune the TV as we often got the Welsh channels instead of the English ones.

1 channel. BBC reached Devon about 1956, I think...
I used to be really excited when I visited my aunt near London because she had ITV and there were cartoons!!!!!

Yes. It was so edgy!

When and where I was born 0.

Just two, BBC and ITV, then BBC 2 launched when I was 7. My parents didn’t get a colour tv until after I’d left home in the mid-1970s, we just had black and white.

3, becoming 4.

4, channel 5 from being 11

2 - BBC and itv. Our old tv couldn’t get bbc2. Never saw Monty python. Deprived teen!

3 but I was only allowed to watch 2.

Three and also a rented TV

As a wee child, 3.

I remember the old “test card F” when BBC wasn’t broadcasting all day… and channel 4 arriving… and then channel 5.

I also remember going to Blockbusters with my friend (we didn’t have a VHS recorder until I was in my teens).

Good times.

2 - where I lived we didn't get ITV until 1976. I was 14. All we talked about at school was the adverts. We'd walk into school singing "If you want a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club!"

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BBC1, ITV. Had to go next door to see 'watch with mother' because for some reason our TV couldn't pick up BBC2...yes I am old.

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In black and white and you had to tune it in to get anything!

2, but was only allowed to watch 1, the ABC, Australia’s public broadcaster.

Three. I’d just started work when Channel 4 launched!

@redwinecheeseandothersnacks Watch with mother was on in the 50s. Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Woodentops etc. Only bbc 1 then (or just bbc). I think bbc2 was around from 1964 but you needed a tv with 625 lines. We had 405 so no bbc2. Not sure it was on bbc2 though as my sisters watched it and we didn’t have bbc2. Maybe you just watched with your mum’s friend and her child?

I was as sick as a parrot about no Monty Python as no bbc2.

3 but never watched BBC2! I was also the remote control!

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3, but ITV was only allowed for dad to watch wrestling on a Saturday afternoon

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