Try just using digital TV. I get like 20 channels on mine with just a coax cable hooked to a VCR!
But then I’m tied to “normal” tv channels saturated with ads, yeah?
That’s very much part of the experience you seem to crave /s
It won’t really feel like a tv channel until I put 5 minutes of prescription drug commercials between every cut in a show.

prescription drug commercials

Referencing anal leakage and death while an upbeat jingle plays in the background to some smiling old people playing horseshoes or hiking in nature.

Talk to your doctor today!

@CmdrShepard49 @HeartyOfGlass

Here's it's more trying to make medical cannabis patients feel a bit more like people in tampons adverts did in 90's.

Maybe there is a FOSS self hosted solution for mixing good old tv ads into the mix!
Ersatz actually does allow you to do this. Its kinda neat to find old 80s and 90s commercials and mix them in with your 80s and 90s TV shows.
Okay that would be fun. Couple retro commercials between an episode every now and then would be cool.