How many tv channels did you have as a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

5

Ha ha, same!
Hector's House and Blue Peter = yes
Magpie = oh noooo!

3 until the early 80s when Channel 4 launched.

3 and then Channel 4 came along in 82.

Swiftly followed by Countdown if I remember correctly.

3

3 but we were not allowed to watch itv. So 2 channels available

1970s - BBC1, BBC2 and ITV .
1980s - also Channel 4, We also had Ceefax on the telly which was like some basic incarnation of the Internet - you could for example look up the weather forecast

BBC1 only for many years until I was a teen and mum hired a colour TV from Redifusion in about 1978. Wow!!

We could only watch BBC2 or ITV if next door was watching it too. Apparently, we needed to piggy back to pick up the sound or something. 😂

Our TV was perpetually broken as dad was a TV repairmen so used to rob bits from our TV to repair other people’s if they rang him at night.

2, but I am older than RTE 2 by a few months.

Same here! Not allowed to watch Magpie!

Two until 1967, when my dad finally rented a 625-line TV so we could watch BBC2 as well. I was nine.

3, then 4….twas most exciting!
and I was about 5 when video recorders became a thing, with a plug in remote control….🤣

3 and I remember how excited I was for C4 launch night!

3

I remember being gathered round to watch the start of Channel 4.

When Channel 5 launched I was at uni. Do you remember the retuning exercise with house visits to retune equipment because its frequencies were used by existing equipment? They couldn't retune DH's because it was too old so they gave him a special little widget to plug in the back to block Channel 5 instead.

Gosh I remember that! You really jogged a memory there. The tuning in problems

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I have never understood why 5 was allowed to launch amidst the problems it had at the beginning. I seem to remember we couldn't get it at all when it first launched.

Three, but only watched itv at my nans house as mom wouldn't allow it.

It was the week of mine too. 4th November?

I remember those power cuts. I was only 7 in 1973 so having to sit in candlelight felt exciting, I bet that's not how my parents saw it at all. 😄 For years after that my dad used to be adamant that everyone should have candles in the house at all times and know where to find them - fairly sensible, tbf.

My mum tells me I first started learning to read from the adverts on TV as a pre-schooler, I was obsessed with them, more so than the programmes in fact. 😄She took me out of my first school because they had a go at her for 'teaching' me to read (she hadn't, I was picking it up for myself) - apparently I was 'making the other children feel stupid' (I really doubt it, I was a shy mouse of a child at that age) and teaching children to read was 'the school's job'. 🙄How times change. It was for the best as my next school was way better and I really enjoyed being there.

I still at 58 have a lingering fondness for 70s ads and sometimes watch them on YouTube. Can't stand modern ads, a lot of them are technologically clever, but also so jarring and shouty, I always mute when the ads are on now.

I can remember coming home from school to find my parents had a surprise for me. They had upgraded from a black and white to a colour tv. I was so shocked I went to sit down. missed the chair and fell down on my arse. 😄

Three then four. I still don't really believe Channel 5 exists.

Nope...watched it with the elderly next door neighbour - 1963-64 ish.

Same.