14 January 2007

TV at Longido

So the street that I live on is called Longido Street, hence the house is referred to as Longido House or just Longido. I was playing around with the TV yesterday and exploring the channel lineup. I have to say, it’s pretty funny.

BBC News & Sky News (both British)
ESPN (European edition, so lots of soccer)
Discovery Channel (Euro edition as well)
MTV- I’m not sure if it’s the Euro or Asia version
SABC (South African station, comparable programming to NBC or CBS)
8 Indian stations (7 of which are in Hindi, and I’m guessing the 8th is a Tamil station. I have to say that the Hindi soap opera I saw yesterday was even more fun to watch than Mexican ones- more slapping, more supernatural events, more explosions- they’re great. And did you know that there’s a ‘Big Brother’ for India? And a ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’ too?)
A Pakistani channel
3 Arabic channels (one being Al-Jazeera at least part of the time)
An Egyptian channel
A Kenyan channel
A Turkish channel
A religious channel where people call in and have their problems solved by God. (Though I’m not sure which God is solving the problems.)
and I think the last channel is a Tanzanian station

So as you can see, there’s both nothing and tons to watch. I’m sure the TV would become much more interesting if I learned Hindi, but at the moment I’m having enough trouble with KiSwahili.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

please tell me you didn't list them down as you were pressing the remote... :)