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A 1965 advert for the Telebank TV rentals. According to my maths 8/6 a week at 6d an hour requires 2.4 hours viewing a day to cover the rental. To then go on and save £80 a year would require a further 8.7 hours a day viewing - a total of 11.1 hours a day across 3 channels (BBC1, BBC2 and ITV) that only had 26 hours of programmes all together (BBC1 -11 hours, BBC2 - 4.5 hours and ITV - 10.5 hours).
I was an apprentice engineer in their Newcastle depot in the mid 70's and reckon some of the sets were on 24/7 !
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