The good old days of shortwave radio provided me a plethora of information before the web came along, I also watched satellite dishes when I worked in the media seeing television from distant locales in the 1980’s and 90’s.
I had a “World Radio TV Handbook” and became engrossed with local broadcasting relayed on shortwave like the stations of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, ABC in Australia and Radio New Zealand, among others.
I listened to Reshet Bet from Israel and Mayak from the USSR, picked up shortwave relays of Swedish radio (P1 and P3), listened to Radio Luxembourg in German, English and French, plus several German outlets on SW.
Wow . . . how I would have loved having one of those!