How many tv channels did you have as a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

5

Could you be thinking of Playschool?
That was broadcast on BBC 2 but I agree with pp that watch with mother was on bbc 1 in the 60s

We had cable tv. My teenage years were basically Music Box.

Yes we didn't have a TV at all until I was about 7. And there were only the 2 channels in the late 50s when we got our first one - rented as was the norm then.

We were only allowed to watch BBC because my father couldn't stand the adverts on the commercial channel.

@BuoyedWithOptimisticIgnorance

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

😀

I was just reminiscing with my H about getting the double issue Radio Times & TV Times at Christmas and he said, “We didn’t get the TV Times”.

3

I remember we had the huge box that could record, Dish... And 500+ channels. I watched mostly from 1-100 and some in the 200s.

Yes indeed playschool - gosh wish I'd never posted.

I remember when channel 5 launched (1997, I was 7), then we had Sky.

Two. I can remember BBC2 launching. My two earliest TV memories are watching the first episodes of Coronation Street and Dr Who.

Three until I was 9, then Channel 4 was launched.

I remember being awestruck when someone told me that in the USA, they had 20 TV channels including one that showed nothing but children's programmes.

I don't think I would have believed that one day we would have access to hundreds of TV channels, and multiple children's channels. However, I had no concept back then of TV channels that consisted of little more than adverts, or the same programmes repeated several times throughout the day.

3 to start as a young child, then C4 came in.

Two. BBC and ITV.

I was just trying to help clarify, not be picky. 😊
I find it fascinating piecing together bits of memories from my childhood.

I think I was about 6 when channel 5 started. I remember happening it but vaguely