Realistically speaking, how many tv channels do you need?

One would be enough if I controlled the programming.

Zero, just the internet, Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go.

2 News channels
2 movie/ TV streaming channels
2 travel channels
1 cooking channel
2 nature channels
Smithsonian channel

What Stanley said, only my choices.

Just…one.. more. PBS, both local channels,weather network, cbc,

I only need THREE!!! I have 2 channels that I watch daily & 1 channel that I watch one show twice a year. Now that I’m thinking about it, I really only need TWO as the I can watch the third on streaming. I only keep my cable because I get a better price & service on my WiFi.

Channels? You mean those things that play on a fixed schedule and are filled with ads and station announcements? Zero.

I only want to play the things I want to watch, when I want to watch them, with zero ads.

Me? 20.

5 broadcast networks. 5 sports channels. 9 movie channels. And Comedy Central.

I use Sonarr to pirate tv for me. Luckily that shows what channels stuff is on.

Here is a list of the numbers of shows on what network that I have watched and might eventually get around to watching:

53 Netflix
46 BBC One
37 Channel 4
29 CBS
26 ABC (US)
25 ITV
24 Investigation Discovery
24 FOX (US)
22 HBO
20 NBC
20 BBC Two
18 The CW
15 Discovery
14 MTV (US)
14 Hulu
14 Amazon
14 ABC (AU)
13 CBC (CA)
12 Syfy
12 Showtime
11 FX (US)
11 AMC
10 TBS
10 Sky1
10 Science Channel
10 History
10 Comedy Central (US)
10 BBC Three
9 USA Network
9 Freeform
7 Sky Atlantic (UK)
7 PBS
7 Network Ten
6 TNT (US)
6 Starz!
6 National Geographic (US)
6 Audience Network
5 YouTube Red
5 Showcase (AU)
5 Paramount Network
5 ITV2
5 Dave
5 ABC1
4 Viceland (US)
4 SundanceTV
4 Stan
4 Nine Network
4 Cinemax
4 Channel 5 (UK)
4 CNN
4 CBS All Access
4 A&E
3 truTV
3 Seven Network
3 S4/C
3 Oxygen
3 Global
3 FXX
3 E4
3 Comedy Central (UK)
3 AHC
2 TV3 (NZ)
2 TV Land
2 Spike TV
2 Sony Crackle
2 Sky Arts
2 Pop
2 National Geographic (UK)
2 MTV (UK)
2 ITV1
2 IFC
2 Food Network
2 EPIX
2 Discovery Channel (AU)
2 City
2 CTV
2 Bravo (US)
2 BBC Four
1 go90
1 YouTube
1 Viaplay
1 VH1
1 UKTV Yesterday
1 TVNZ
1 TV3 (IE)
1 TV2
1 TV One (NZ)
1 Syndication
1 Seeso
1 SBS (AU)
1 Rooster Teeth
1 Really
1 RTÉ One
1 Prime (NZ)
1 OWN
1 MSNBC
1 Lifetime (US)
1 HLN
1 H2
1 Fox Channel (UK)
1 Family (CA)
1 FYI
1 FOX Sports 1
1 E!
1 Disney Channel (US)
1 Discovery Channel (Canada)
1 Discovery (US)
1 Crime & Investigation Network (AU)
1 Crackle
1 Canal+
1 CNBC
1 CMT
1 CBBC
1 C31
1 Bravo (CA)
1 BBC iPlayer
1 BBC America
1 Adult Swim
1 Acorn TV
1 AXN
1 ABC3

I could only watch one at a time. As it is I don’t really watch TV.

@johnpowell Do you mean you steal it?

Thirteen:

Turner Classic Movies
National Geographic Channel
Showtime
PBS
HBO
FX
TBS
FOX
NBC
Comedy Central
Cooking Channel
Discovery Channel
Science Channel

@Zaku

DVR fixes all of that

@MollyMcGuire :: Yes I steal it. But not really steal.

I pay for Netflix and Direct TV Now. But I only pay for netflix because they make some good stuff and I am happy to pay 12 a month to support that. And I pay for Direct TV Now mostly for the news. Torrents aren’t great for the news. So I would say I pay for around 80% of the stuff I watch but I just don’t use their services to watch it.

I watch a lot of UK and Australia stuff and I would pay to watch it but they won’t let me.

So I pirate everything and that goes into Plex and I can watch whatever I want whenever I want without commercials.

It looks like this on my end.

https://i.imgur.com/UWDpSWi.jpg

And then if I pick TV on the left I get a list.

https://i.imgur.com/bT88x1E.jpg

I watch a lot of TV. Might as well toss in some library stats.

https://i.imgur.com/yOkyvBF.png

Oh.. I do steal the fuck out of movies. But I justify that because I worked at a movie theater for three years and had to sell weed on the side to pay my rent. Fuck you Regal.

None, we subscribe to one off the internet and watch the news from the internet.
and that one channel only costs $4.99 Canadian a month.

I pay a £12.12 compulsory TV licence fee in the UK and 75% of what I watch is on BBC. I’ve thought of getting Netflix but I’ll probably hold off for a year or two. I like watching Judge Judy and the occasional programme on PBS but that’s about it.