Where I live in New York City, I have access to at least 54 channels, with only one being a duplicate. My antenna doesn’t have the best configuration, so the might be some I’m missing.

It’s basically as good as basic cable in America, and even has 1 dedicated weather channel and 1news channels. But it’s free. Some channels are broadcast in HD, while others are broadcast in SD.

Included in the lineup are a majority of English channels and a decent amount of Spanish channels with at least two Chinese channels.

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  1. 14.

    * LRT TELEVIZIJA – generalist flagship channel of public broadcaster, one of TOP3

    * LRT PLIUS – culture, sports, regional shows, documentaries from national broadcaster

    * TV3 – one of TOP3 generalist channel, owned by the TV3 Group

    * LNK – third of TOP3 generalist channels, owned by MG Baltic Media

    * Lietuvos ryto TV – another generalist channel, associated with daily/news portal Lietuvos rytas

    * TV6 – TV3 Group channel, targeting youth (especially men). TV series, documentaries, sports.

    * Info TV – news and documentaries, MG Baltic Media ownership

    * TV8 – TV3 Group channel targeting women. TV series.

    * BTV – purchased by MG Baltic Media few years ago. 1990s films (mostly action), sports, TV series.

    * TV1 – TV series (many detective series) and some documentaries and shows. Owned by MG Baltic Media

    * Delfi TV – news and documentaries. Associated with news portal Delfi.

    * 2TV – pop music.

    * Current Time TV – Russian language TV from RFE/RL and Voice of America with news, documentaries and some other films.

    * Pūkas TV – lowest tier 1990s-2000s Lithuanian music, low effort news and crazy conspiracy theory talkshows.

    LRT also broadcasts LRT Lituanica channel FTA on Astra 4A, aimed at diaspora. All of LRT channels are available online (together with Pūkas, Delfi TV and Current Time TV), others have non-linear streaming services.

    Before the shutdown of analogue TV I was able to receive Polish TVP2 and TVP1 here in Kaunas. However, some TVP channels are easily available on satellite.

  2. So you mean: how many free-to-air channels does your country have?

    One Belgian channel: “TV5 Monde” (the Belgian/French/Swiss version)

    And then some foreign channels, especially a lot of German ones. Zero Dutch/Flemish channels. Antenna owners used to have three Flemish channels (Eén, Canvas, Ketnet), but those channels stopped in 2018 and are now only available via cable/satellite/internet.

  4. In Italy there are many free-to-air channels:

    **RAI 1**: RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italian Radio and Television) is public television.

    **RAI 2**

    **RAI 3**

    **Rete 4**: Run by Mediaset, the leading private television company, owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

    **Canale 5**: Mediaset

    **Italia 1**: Mediaset

    **LA7**: Still private, but not managed by Mediaset, but by the publisher Cairo.

    **TV 8**: Private, owned by Sky.

    **Nove**: Discovery Channel

    **Canale 20**: Mediaset

    **RAI 4**: Semi-network, only films, cult series and animes

    **Iris**: Only auteur films, Mediaset

    There are many others, but I will not list them all because there are too many.

    All are network channels, except where specified.

  5. around 200. Most of them are pay-tv channels though. Free ota around 40 (southern Alps)

  6. Oh, no idea – it’s mostly cable/IP based in NL, I have no idea if we actually do over-the-air broadcasts at all here – never asked the question to myself in 20 years. You need to pay for the cable/IP service, but cable is mostly it’s kinda bundled with the internet. Something like 10 euro a month for KPN (the largest supplier) is the ‘declared’ cost for TV , but normally thrown in if you shop around.

    Once you have that you get quite a lot – 50 or so in the basic package? – but that includes some BBC channels, German, Italian, various international news etc. It’s nothing like the US, the costs are minimal, the advertising is restricted heavily, cable is not really a topic of contention or particular discontent.

    Internet costs are relatively high (for Europe), but when I say relatively high, I think the current costs – full price is 70 euro a month for a 1Gb fibre connection (but I pay 35 (including TV channels) on an offer) and will switch. Switching is easy (although the telcos do have a bit of a propensity to cock it up)

  7. Technically I can receive 96 different channels but a lot of those are HD versions of SD channels or time-delayed channels (i.e. the same content as another channel but delayed by an hour).

    Edit: 95 of those are in English and 1 is in Scottish Gaelic. We also get a lot of repackaged American stations (the reverse of BBC America) like PBS America, CBS Drama, the Food Channel, the Smithsonian Network, etc.

  8. 62 channels, of which around 20 are free to air. some duplicate SD channels are included.

    cable and IPTV are of course widely spread too.

  9. many but the nightmare of every italian radio enjoyer is “radio maria” a christian radio who only transmits holy music or prayers

  10. RTÉ One

    RTÉ2

    Virgin Media One

    TG4

    Virgin Media Two

    Virgin Media Three

    RTÉjr

    RTÉ One +1

    RTÉ2 +1

    RTÉ News

    Tithe an Oireachtais

    Sky News

  11. In France we have 26 free-to-air TV channels :

    1. TF1 : private TV station, the most popular (with everything this word means), generalist
    2. France 2 : public channel, generalist
    3. France 3 : public channel, local news, cultural heritage, game show for old people
    4. Canal + : partly crypted, series, movies and sport
    5. France 5 : public channel, education and knwoledge
    6. M6 : the housewives’ channel,
    7. Arte : French-german channel of high quality (documentaries, movies)
    8. C8 : Hanouna TV (the meaniest, trashiest, most manipulative TV host you could imagine), every buzz is good, especially bad buzz
    9. W9 : reruns from M6 and music
    10. TMC : reruns from TF1 and infotainment
    11. TFX : shitty real TV
    12. NRJ12 : shitty real TV
    13. LCP-AN : parliamentary channels
    14. France 4 : public channel, for kids during the day, for culture in the evening
    15. BFM TV : hysterical news station
    16. CNEWS : French Fox News
    17. CSTAR : music and shitty TV shows
    18. Gulli : for kids
    19. No longer attributed, formerly France Ô, dedicated to oversea territories
    20. TF1 Séries Films : reruns of movies and TV shows from TF1
    21. L’Equipe : sports
    22. 6ter : reruns of movies and TV shows from M6 and W9
    23. RMC Story : crime documentaries, alien documentaries, shocking documetnaries
    24. RMC Découverte : half documentaries, half real TV about american truck drivers, american fishers, american lumberjacks…
    25. Chérie 25 : another housewives channel
    26. LCI : news
    27. France Info : high quality news

  13. 10 free to air channels, 5 of them SD only. Practically unusable, but the corporations running the TV channels are greedy so I’m actually surprised that there’s anything more than the 4 national TV channels…

  14. Free to air:

    ETV – Estonian Television. News, culture, classic movies, local gameshows etc. Honestly IMO the best channel

    ETV2 – Also Estonian Television. Mostly documentaries, stuff for kids, older movies and reruns of stuff from ETV

    ETV+ – Estonian Television in Russian

    Tallinna TV – TV channel that was AFAIK funded by Estonian Centre Party and was meant for news about Tallinn. It was closed in 2020 and I only remember Viktor Vassiljev from there

    Paid:

    Eesti Kristlik Televisioon – Estonian Christian television. Despite Estonia not having a large Christian population

    Kanal 2 – Owned by M. Linnamäe, Estonian oligarch. Mostly trash-tier shows and foreign movies

    TV3 – Owned by Viasat. Slightly better Kanal 2

    TV3+ – Russian TV3

    TV6 – Owned by Viasat. Stuff for younger male audience mostly

    Duo 4, formerly Kanal 11 – Sister channel of Kanal 2. Mostly stuff for women and reality shows

    Alo TV – Estonian music channel

    KidZoneTV – cartoons

    Lolo TV – cartoons

    Viasat History – History stuff, but everything is in English with Estonian subtitles

    There are for sure more, but that’s all that comes to mind

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