- Joined
- Sep 25, 2014
My cable company was a little more interesting, as we had one of those "dual-line" services were the channels were fed from two wires going into a switch box or converter before going to the TV set. For most of the 80's, Nickelodeon was on channel 5A, while MTV was 5B. I remember often switching over to MTV a lot that way. Nobody knew! Of course the real problem with such a set-up was that programming a VCR wasn't the most compatible thing on the planet given you coudn't program for a channel on opposite sides at once. They gave up on this thing by the end of the 90's.Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were the only ones around when I was a kid. I still remember that Disney Channel was channel 16, Nickelodeon was channel 24, and MTV (which I wasn't supposed to watch) was channel 29.

Classics!At the time, Nickelodeon didn't even have the Nicktoons, and it was mainly stuff like Pinwheel, Today's Special, Eureeka's Castle, and weird foreign cartoons I can only vaguely remember like Spartakus: The Sun Beneath the Sea, The Lost Cities of Gold, and Belle and Sebastian.
I will say though, tt can be difficult for anyone to see the appeal in something like this, but I loved it...
That was my teenage years when these were big.As a kid I loved MTV's oddities and Aeon Flux (I think I liked it) whenever I could find it. I could never get into Beavis & Butthead.