It might be one station out in the country or three in a medium sized city or five or more if you lived in a populated area in or around the big cities.
The hundreds yea thousands of channels or video options we can see today were but a dream.
As recently as Jan. 2, 2000, that had always been the case wherever I lived (I was 38 at the time). The only exceptions being in my dormitory (and later my off-campus residence) when I was in college. On the aforementioned date, we activated our DirecTV (a Christmas gift to my mom and stepdad from from his offspring and I).
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