I remember pulling down the live feed Carson on my C-band satellite dish and seeing all the stuff that went on during the commercial-breaks. Nothing like live comedy.
#21 I did too back in the early 1980’s with a 8ft then a 10ft dish antenna. My neighbors could tell I was watching tv as my antenna would swing back and forth !
Later they scrambled the tv signals but you could buy kits to unscramble.