ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Non-US Electrical Systems & Trades "Esoteric" countries and their wiring practices?

Years ago I came across an article on pirate TV in a magazine that also told of how Eastern Europeans would drive to the borders with Western European countries and hook up portable TV sets to the batteries of their cars to watch the Western TV networks.

Also, a lot of people (in Poland) would build their own sattelite dishes and receivers.

I assume people living in East Germany could tune in the West German TV channels and vice versa, right?

What happened to the East German TV channels? Were they just absorbed by the ZDF, ARD and 3 networks or did they stay on as additional channels along with new ARD, ZDF and 3 relay stations?