Capie, how does one living in the shadow of Table Mountain watch BBC 1? On BBC World, or are they having you somewhere ex RSA?
Next time you go to Cape Town, look very carefully at the mountain and you will see my private 350 (now uprated to 650) metre satellite dish. It feeds a NT54WD 600 Gb network of frozen superconductors cooled by cryogenic generators, which run to my house in Constantia. Every 500 metres there is a 60,000 kv relay powered by a private power station next to Koeberg - not a lot of people know about this. The signal reaches my house with very little drop in attenuation where it is amplified by a battery of 24 General Electric CX67/B boosters and fed to the box. The image on some channels tends to pixellate at times when there is a black South Easter, but mostly it works pretty well.
Edit : New picture shows upgraded antenna farm and rather unsightly cables running down into City Bowl from where they go underground.
Otherwise, of course, the second part of your sentence is applicable!