Even I remember only having three channels to watch and I was born after colour telly started. And half the time that was only two as there was nothing on BBC2. The excitement when C4 started was incredible, particularly as they were a little more risque - waiting patiently on a Sat night for the late film to start, hoping for a flash of tit! How times of changed......
Where I lived as a teenager didn't have C4 for a few years when it 1st started, my mate lived on top of a hill and could get it.
Really pissed me off him constantly telling the rest of us how great it was with all the juicy films he watched at weekends, low and behold by the time I could get it they had cut the decent stuff