>Aye madness. There aren't enough hours in the week to watch all that one day may provide. I presume you have satellite. Here I have a DTR (Digital Terrestrial Receiver) which gives the digital channels caught via the aerial (antenna). I get many channels but not the subscibe channels like Sky. so I haven't see the new series of Battlestar Galactica (I remember the old from the 70s - great at first then became stupid and now looks soooooo dated).

I have cable TV and a satellite for use when cable TV faults. DTR is coming there. I'll buy it. Because satellite antennas so ugly..

>When I was born there were just 2 channels: BBC and ITV, then came BBC2 in the late 60s, then Channel 4 in 1981, then Channel 5 c. 10 years ago: so 5 terrestrial channels here.

Tv came here at 70s...

There are for about 20 national channels and hundreds of local channels on air TV. I think so 20-30 more national channels on cable and satellite...

I know a big part of them lose money because of low advertisement incomes. 2-3 years ago a tv channel sold for about 400 million dollars. Actually it doesn't worth 400 million dollars. He just bought that channel for power...