On 3/9/2010 1:27 AM, scott wrote:
>> Hate to tell you, but with some exceptions, most of those channels
>> **did** exists, you just had to be bloody stinking rich, or have an
>> illegal satellite unit, to watch them.
>
> Maybe in the US. In the UK we only got a satellite service around 1990,
> and cable TV much later which still is not popular at all. The majority
> of people used terrestrial receivers to get the 4 available channels via
> analogue (they added a 5th, but bandwidth problems meant a lot of people
> couldn't get it properly), and recently ~50 channels via digital.
>
> In the UK, the only channels now that existed before digital TV are the
> ones that came over from Sky, like Sky News, Sky Sports News and CNN and
> the imported Viva channel (can't see anymore on the listings that might
> have existed earlier). All the rest (the majority) were either added as
> additions to the "big 4" analogue channels or created from scratch after
> digital TV came.
>
> The channel list is here:
>
> http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/Channels
>
>
So.. the old joke about going to Europe and having one one station, 
which showed nothing but how the local factory made cheese is true? lol

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