How many tvs did your childhood home have?

[goofyernmost]

Most of my childhood, one. Black and white until I was about 7, then we got a color TV. That was about 1965. When the color tv died my mom moved it into the Living room because "it was too nice a piece of furniture to throw out". So we had two then, but only one that worked. When my mom passed away in 2013 I took the nice piece of furniture TV to the dump. It had been in the house nearly 50 years, only the first 10 or so was it working.
And yes, we had 4 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC and NET. NET later became PBS.

We must have had the same Mother's at different times. In 1961 my parents bought one of those Cabinet B&W TV's with Fm and Am radio and a turntable. The TV gave out about 10 years later, but since the radio and turntable was still working she felt it was way to nice a piece of furniture to throw out so it sat out on their sun porch until she passed in 2005 it was then put to out of its misery. Still a beautiful piece of furniture but completely useless except to hold knick knacks and pictures of grandchildren.

 

[barkley]

And yes, we had 4 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC and NET. NET later became PBS.

no kbhk channel 44 or ktvu channel 2 in the 60's?

 

[tvguy]

no kbhk channel 44 or ktvu channel 2 in the 60's?

I think they both were around but they both are San Francisco stations and I am in Sacramento. Their signal did not reach Sacramento.

 

[ronandannette]

ONE and somehow it was just fine!!! and oh, so many years ago!

And it’s still just fine. I grew up with a single TV in the house and our home now only has one too - we’ve never had more than one.

 

[barkley]

And it’s still just fine. I grew up with a single TV in the house and our home now only has one too - we’ve never had more than one.

absolutely fine.

what I find interesting though is what seems to be common among my oldest (30's) and that peer group of not desiring having a tv and def. not if they have kids b/c they (say) that they don't want to waste time/have their kids waste time watching TV but the kids are still streaming the shows on their pads or laptops while the adults (my own included) have large monitors for their gaming computers that they seem to keep up to speed watching the same shows I do. so is it tv watching they are against or just the old school method of delivery?

 

[amcnj]

Most of my younger years there was one tv. Then my mother won a raffle for a color tv m, and since the black and white set was still working, we doubled up and became a two tv family!

 

[NYCgrrl]

One used black and white non-console TV given us as a family gift when I was eleven or twelve. Nice not having to visit friends to see the Jetsons or Flintstones. Oh and staying up to watch “The Late Late Show” and finally “David & Goliath”. Still, the library was more fun in my mind and helps to explain my ability to ignore the TV for years at a time.

 

[kanerf]

We had two. It was the sixties. Big color console thing in the living room and small black and white in the guest room.

 

[antmaril]

We had one black and white tv when I was little in the 1950’s. Eventually, of course, we got a color tv, but we always had just one. It was a different time.