And in Germany, the telecommunications division of the German Post Office (later Deutsche Telekom) was in charge of laying cable networks and relaying programmes through them.
The channels relayed in the Hannover area, apart from the obligatory ARD/ZDF/NDR, also featured other "third programmes", RTL and SAT.1, the East German stations, and Sky Channel and Music Box. And also BFBS!

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Here are the television channels relayed on Swedish cable networks in the 1980s.
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