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(December 2004)

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Colm
(cough)Granada(cough)
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Edward Ington-Lock
It was a decision - I never said it was a logical or consistent one! Wink
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cummig20
My parents, and other adult relatives, call it STV, but most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..
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Ant
cummig20 posted:
most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..

I get annoyed with people who say that! It says the channel name before every programme and on digital EPG's and somehow people can't take it in!
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Colm
I blame David Bowie:

"Switch on the TV, we may pick him on Channel 2..." ("Starman", 1972)
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roo
Antz posted:
cummig20 posted:
most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..

I get annoyed with people who say that! It says the channel name before every programme and on digital EPG's and somehow people can't take it in!

Perhaps eventually they'll find it easier to call it BBC One than 'Channel 101'
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cummig20
Barney Boo posted:
Antz posted:
cummig20 posted:
most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..

I get annoyed with people who say that! It says the channel name before every programme and on digital EPG's and somehow people can't take it in!

Perhaps eventually they'll find it easier to call it BBC One than 'Channel 101'


Saying that, my brother will only recognise BBC1 as 101 and Channel 4 as 104 etc and gets confused when told something is on BBC1, no matter how often you explain it to him!
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tvguy
I can't get my dad to call it ITV1,he still calls it ITV!
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Andrew Founding member
Antz posted:
cummig20 posted:
most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..

I get annoyed with people who say that! It says the channel name before every programme and on digital EPG's and somehow people can't take it in!

And everything that isn't on channel 1 to 5 is on Sky!

'Did you see Little Britain last night?'
'what channel was it on?'
'it was on sky'
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Mark Smith
Andrew posted:
Antz posted:
cummig20 posted:
most younger people, as has been said before, refer to it as Channel 3, and, as has also been said, BBC1=Channel 1, BBC2=Channel 2 etc..

I get annoyed with people who say that! It says the channel name before every programme and on digital EPG's and somehow people can't take it in!

And everything that isn't on channel 1 to 5 is on Sky!

'Did you see Little Britain last night?'
'what channel was it on?'
'it was on sky'


I've noticed that! Many people have their Sky digibox tuned to channel 6 on their analogue TV so when they watch through that they always refer to it as "Sky", rather than the name of the channel the digibox itself is tuned to. These people usually watch anything on the terrestrial channels through analogue instead of changing the channel on the digibox (my nan always does this, but TBH I don't even know why she has Sky because she rarely seems to watch it, usually has the TV on analogue BBC1 or ITV1).

I usually refer to the third channel as "three" (not channel 3) or Anglia.
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tvguy
What hapenned to BBC2,Ch4 and five?
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Jez Founding member
Most people call it HTV or ITV

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