If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot
Cable? Hell, I remember black and white. And the little deer lamps that people would put on the TVs so you wouldn't get eye strain in the dark.
YES! The TV lamp, my mother kept it in back of the big monstrous black-and-white TV, which of course was kept on a TV cart
with WHEELS on it, and it had the rabbit-ear antennae, and my father put pieces of tinfoil on the ends of the rabbit ears to
improve the reception. We turned this TV on an off manually, and changed channels manually. We got about 8 channels.