You know you're a TV anorak when...

21. You know the names of all your local transmitter sites.

22. You actually spend time looking for (and even record) mistakenly transmitted clean feeds and studio outputs on previously unknown satellite transponders.

23. you visit websites like this several times a day.

You have tons of VHS cassettes of vintage pres and adverts you've traded over the years

Having a video called "Eng Tests" full of test cards from the hidden channels dept of Sky Digital

You own BOTH TBS videos

You collect 1970's LP's of TV theme tunes not performed by the original artists

*owns up to all of the above*

Walking deliberately past Granada Television as it's on the way to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

Humming the theme to ITV Regional News and RTÉ News

Having a few tapes full of TV Presentation

Watching Channel 4 News for 'the Headlines' and the music

Staying up until the middle of the night to see the last ever screening of an ident.

..When you check TV listings for several days ahead on the BBC site, looking for the next closedown/CEEFAX broadcast!

All modern anorak stuff...
Here's one for older anoraks, mackintoshes, in fact....
Recording the Service Information bulletin on BBC-2 each morning at 10.00am between 1968 and 1973 to find out what Trade Test Colour Films were to be shown each day!

Afraid to say, Guilty as charged!

35. You make an effort to drive back from Birmingham to London at midnight, in utterly terrible weather, just so you can see the final LWT startup.

36. You get terribly excited when something unexpected happens during an ident, like a VT clock popping up.

37. You then proceed to record every ident on the channel that night, 'just in case' it happens again.

38. You start a thread called 'You know you're a TV anorak when...' on a forum.

What? Only a FEW?

39. Rate the Continuity Announcer's announcement.

Actually that would be really sad. People only have multiple satellite systems just to watch television that they cannot get from Sky, namely Italian, Indian, etc. In the case of me, it's to watch the footie cheaper.


40) Sad people are people who take captures of unnecessary things and post it on the internet in the full size just to make life harder for the dial-up person, or just to show off they have a tv capture card. For example:

41. As a child, you asked your parents' friends to bring you back a local TV Times from Skeggy or Jersey, instead of candy rock.

42. You had a little notebook and kept a log every day of who the continuity announcers were on Channel Four and Tyne Tees.

43. You were inconsolable when Tyne Tees started showing more adverts on Channel Four, so less of FourScore was heard.

44. You had a A5 book and drew pictures of station symbols, interval slides and countdown clocks; asked your dad to do the same, and then gave him marks out of 20 on the quality of the reproduction.

45. You can't resist mentioning the new Channel Seven idents in international chatrooms if someone from Australia signs in.