Foreign channels you have

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MooglesSayKupo

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I think WGN,CBC and PBS might be foreign channels but I'm not sure.If they are I have them.Please talk about your likes and dislikes about the channel or channels so this doesn't turn into a list thread.

Boomerang Latin Amerca/American-I never had Boomerang until Digital Cable was Introduce to my country.The downside was I lost a great deal of channels the good part is I gained MTV (I regreted it after I saw what it became) Scifi (atleast it has anime) and Boomerangla.I began to watch shows like Voltron, He-man, She-ra, G-force and old school GhostBusters (I think they showed the new one to but I'm not sure) flinstones and the Jestons etc.Around 2006 the channel relauned and stop showing classics and seems to now show teen Australian and Canadian shows and spanish telenovelas (I speak no spanish )like The last Buzz,6 Teen, Total Drama Island,Blue water High ,Power Puff Girls Z,Flight29 down ,H20:just add,Rebelde,Rincon de luz etc.
 
WGN is an over-the-air TV station in Chicago, carried nationally as a "superstation" on cable under the name "WGN America" (with the national lineup differing a bit from the local version).

PBS is the US' over-the-air non-commercial TV network (not government-run though...).

CBC is Canada's over-the-air government-owned TV network, though it does air commercials.

As for foreign channels, unless you pay for a special package offering such or live near the Canadian/Mexican borders, most Americans don't get such channels at all. Most US cities do however have Spanish-language TV stations (via Univision or Telemundo, the two major Spanish language networks in the US).

Re: animation: I don't get any foreign channels, so don't see much in the way of cartoons on those. In college however, we did get Univision, where I saw Spanish-language episodes of the Flintstones. Noticed a lot of the "rock" puns didn't work too well, though... or the Captain Caveman episode where he fights the villain from the future named "Futuro" (which is Spanish for, well, "Future").

-B.
 
Does BBC America count?

Just kidding!:p

Back in the day before you had DirecTV or Dish Network you had those huge (12 feet wide) satellite dishes that were capable of pulling in TV stations from Canada or Mexico, or even farther, depending on strength and the way the channels were scrambled (or not scrambled.) My grandparents had one of these and they pretty much moved the dish around to pickup different channels.
 
No they aren't. WGN is/was a "superstation", PBS is America's public broadcaster (publicly funded, not state-owned) and CBC is however Canada's public broadcaster.

WGN-TV
WGN America
Public Broadcasting Service
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Some American communities near the Canadian border may be able to pick up the CBC either through antenna reception or via cable TV if available.

Channels that are from foreign places or cater to minorities of ethnicity may include the following...
China Central Television (CCTV-4)
China Central Television (CCTV-9)
Al Jazeera
NHK World

Most foreign channels that may be seen in North America often tend to be "international" version and are often mostly news/informational rather than commercial entertainment we may otherwise want.
 
There is also their Francophone counterpart, Societe Radio-Canada, which is commercial-free. SRC tend to air a lot of foreign programming dubbed in French such as American and Japanese cartoons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Télévision_de_Radio-Canada


It depends on market. There's no Spanish-language UHF stations where I am, but some may be seen on local cable and/or satellite anyway.


Heh, Univision back in the 80's used to show a lot of Japanese cartoons that were dubbed into Spanish like Remi, Treasure Island, El Capitan Centalla (Gekko Kamen), La Maquina del Tiempo (Time Bokan) and so-on. You missed out on the best time for this stuff to be aired. Some parts of the US such as NY or LA often had a channel that was devoted to minority programming for different ethnic groups such as Asians, so often raw and unsubbed Japanese cartoons were common to see on there. It still may be possible in Hawaii as it often was seen there for decades.

One channel I loved the first time I saw it about 13 years ago was "International Channel", as it showed many different programs from all over, including news and some cartoons such as a un-subbed, raw version of Dragon Ball Z, and some Japanese cartoons that were dubbed in Arabic. The channel later was changed to "AZN" and catered to an Asian audience for a few years before it was finally gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Networks
 
I know friends who had one back in the 80's when many stations were still unscrambled.

You can still pick up on "Free-To-Air" satellite channels from overseas countries on these smaller dishes through the Ku band today, so it's possible you can still get the same feeling you did back in the day on these giant C-band dishes.
 
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