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Before it was recently replaced by digital in late october last year, the UK had 5 main analogue terrestrial TV channels (not including local / regional analogue channels).
Also, how would scrapping the yearly mandatory television licence fee effect the BBC (used to fund the latter unlike the other channels) following the alternate Peacock Committee? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_Committee)