In Spain in 'ancient' times it used to be UHF/VHF channels. Two of them. First, THe only channel, a la BBC, but from a dictatorship, TVE, Television Española, a

In Spain in 'ancient' times it used to be UHF/VHF channels. Two of them. First, THe only channel, a la BBC, but from a dictatorship, TVE, Television Española, and later, TVE2, in a different band (I think it requiered a separate antenna and/or tuner) which was depicted as more culture bound (the regime opened up a little in the early 70's) and with less hour per day that the main channels. The new channel appeared when my parents were kids, around the late 60's. But, for incredible stuff happening in the 90's, I remember watching the MTV illegally in very early 00's due to a semi-pirate really local TV channel. They used to broadcast chiptune videos at late night too, it was really weird. Even some early Flash videos and animations too. Good times to own a TV tuner in your PC among the teletext when you had to go to a cybercafé to basically work offline and batch-send/downloaded everything within an hour while you chatted with your friends and some potential GF. If you knew how to pirate the Nagravision cypher from paid TV channels (something lame to decode with an Athlon in real time) you often could watch (and dump) movies with, well, VHS quality (MPEG2 was just a thing for cable TV and DVDs) but at least after the long rip (13h per hour, and then the encoding to XVID/DIVx) you could watch a good movie months after being displayed in the theaters.