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by clan
439 days ago
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In DK I would say it became common with the kitchen and maybe bedroom TV around 1990 and TVs in the kids rooms around 1995. Cable TV became common in the 1980s (around here). So distribution is just a question about point of entry. Are the aussies and UKensians that different? Source: I worked at a TV/electronics shop in the early 90s. |
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Digital, broadcast TV in the UK is mostly received by radio broadcast or satellite broadcast, so the house would only have the appropriate cables from certain rooms up to the roof. Thinking of the houses I lived in, it wouldn't have been practical to put a router of any kind up there.
From recent UK statistics:
- 95% of households have at least one television
- 30% receive TV over satellite
- 13% by cable
- 80% by IPTV
- 48% by terrestrial radio broadcast
- 96% have broadband internet
That's 13% of houses using their cables for a TV subscription, so more than that number have the cables available, but some big chunk probably had it installed to a single room in the 1980s and have never expanded it — the kitchen and the kids' room use terrestrial broadcast.