1000 Channels How Many have your watched?

[Trekker4747]

There are something like 1000 channels out there for TV viewers -between broadcast, cable and satellite.

So keeping with the theme of "x how many have you y?"

How many channels have you watched?

 

[RevDMV]

All of them, for at least three seconds each....

 

[Joshua Howard]

No TV, so no channels. I used to watch MSNBC and CNN, but now I obtain all my news online.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Probably less than 10%. I haven't had cable in 15 years so most of the cable TV I have watched is on other people's TV's. Irony is the moment I can afford I am still going to get cable hooked up.

 

[captcalhoun]

BBC 1, 2, 3, 4 and News

ITV 1 nad 2.

Dave

G.O.L.D.

Sky One

Sky Movies Premiere

Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, Xtra and News.

Channel 4

Five

Five USA

Virgin 1

Bravo

think that's the ones where I've watched more than five minutes of them.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I don't even look at 95% of the channels on cable and free-view, I'm still find myself hoovering around BBC1/2,4, Ch4/5...that's when i actually watching the TV, i find myself more and more opting for catch up TV/On demand and iplayer these days.

 

[Jadzia]

I hardly ever watch tv now; there's not much point me having one really. I don't find much entertainment value in the programmes made now.

But back when I did watch television more, my parent's got ondigital in 2001 shortly after that started, and it was lovely to have all those fifty or so channels over the four and a half we had previously.

I remember my favourites were skyone, ukgold, and the film channels. But there was none which I hadn't looked at, at least briefly.

When I started at university, we had a full satellite package, which comprised of several hundred channels. Sticking with my favourites, I never checked most of those out. More often than not, the others had it tuned to the cartoon network or the endless reruns of Friends. Also, around this time, and the launch of freeview, when I was finding less interest in television.

In the years since, my viewing has dropped down to single figures if we're measuring viewing time in hours per month.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I just have 8 channels. Watch most of them. Don't need anymore channels.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Nowadays, Freeview channels are enough for me, even though I only watch about 2 or 3 of them on any given day. Prior to that, I had the 5 channels at home, then at Uni I didn't watch TV - radio was (and to a certain extent still is) my friend.

But back when I did watch television more, my parent's got ondigital in 2001 shortly after that started, and it was lovely to have all those fifty or so channels over the four and a half we had previously.

Did you ever get one of those ITV Digital monkeys?

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

We have about 35 channels over here. I watch about 3 and a half hours of TV every week, dispersed over 3 channels. TV is outdated.

 

[Jadzia]

Did you ever get one of those ITV Digital monkeys?

ondigital was before itvdigital, so no

But being the original technology, the ondigital boxes are built reliably. And even though they can't handle the now bloated bbci scripts, they don't breakdown, nor crash, nor randomly reboot while flicking channels, nor insist on doing a rescan in the middle of a film.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Did you ever get one of those ITV Digital monkeys?

ondigital was before itvdigital, so no

But being the original technology, the ondigital boxes are built reliably. And even though they can't handle the now bloated bbci scripts, they don't breakdown, nor crash, nor randomly reboot while flicking channels, nor insist on doing a rescan in the middle of a film.

Our old MedSoc building had an ondigital set top box, which worked well except in times when it would freeze, have poor reception with blocky interference, and when the card stopped working a few times. Then came the time it was reduced to an expensive plastic-metal rock when ITV Digital went belly-up.

I have had a few problems with Freeview set-top boxes such as the box hanging several times, but never had a problem with my last TV which had a built-in Freeview receiver.

 

[cultcross]

I watch BBC 1, 2 and 3, ITV 1 and 2, Channel 4, E4, More4, FilmFour, Dave, Virgin1 a lot or quite a bit, then some others like TMF, FiveUSA or Channel 5 occasionally as 'background chatter' or because something unusually diverting is on.

Plus, of course, my favourite channel, Gay TV Nightly.

 

[Warp Coil]

I would say that the only channels I care to watch, even only every once in a while, are:
A&E
ABC
Adult Swim
AMC
BBC America
Bravo
Comedy Central
Discovery
Fox
Syfy
TBS
TNT

I could probably survive just fine with only these networks.

 

[Mr. B]

Few enough that a list wouldn't be too imposing. Let's see... (regulars italicized of about 500 I have access to)

ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, BBC (some NFL through Sunday Ticket)
CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, MSNBC, C-Span
A&E, BIO, Food, History Ch., Discovery, TLC, HD Theater, SyFy
FX, TNT, USA, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Universal HD, HDNET, ESPN
HBO, Starz, Showtime, TCM, IFC, HDNET Movies

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I did the Freeview retune thing recently and came across lots of strange new channels, including something rather suspicious called Rabbit...

 

[auntiehill]

ABC
NBC
CBS
FOX
PBS
TLC
Discovery
BBC America
Comedy Central
CNN
SyFy
USA
TNT
Style
TCM
AMC
Bravo
Cartoon Network
History Channel
Food Network
HGTV

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I did the Freeview retune thing recently and came across lots of strange new channels, including something rather suspicious called Rabbit...

Did you not see GayRabbit and Babestation?

I got rid of Sky a few years back, right now I have a few hundred free to air channels, but most of what I watch is on Freeview anyway.

Channels I watch at least 1 regular series on.

BBC One, Two, Three, Four, and HD.
ITV1, 2 and 4
Channel 4, E4, More4
Five, Fiver, Five USA
Virgin 1
Dave
Quest
Sky Three

 

[tharpdevenport]

At various times, I have watched channels I only watched for one show, but never again, or channels dropped alltogether for viewing.

Channels I currently watch regularly:

The Discovery Channel
The History Channel
FOX News
Comedy Central
TV Land

Channels I watch on off for certain shows, as of right now:
Whatever CourtTV is being called now
Oxygen (for the re-runs of "Roseanne")
FOX (for "American Dad" and occassionally "COPS")
possibly forgetting some.


So, in other words -- many channels I don't watch at all.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I so rarely watch TV any more (I watch all my favorite shows online) that having cable is pretty pointless, yet I resist getting rid of it. But even when I did watch there were usually just 10-15 frequently watched channels at most.

I wish Time Warner had the option of bundling your favorite channels together and eliminating excess channels via your remote. I have a ridiculous amount of duplicates and channels I'll never watch, and then the ones I do watch are spread all over the place.