According to statistics from the Radio and Television Affairs Department of the Government Information Office, small satellite dishes are mainly used for receiving three channels broadcast from Japan's BS; medium dishes can receive a total of twenty stations from DFH2-A1 and Japan's Superbird-2: large receivers can pick up a total of 15 more stations from PALAPA-2, INTELSATVF8 and the Russian GORIZONT-8-A3: a veritable multitude that in numbers has already passed 40.
根據新聞局廣播電視處資料，目前台灣用小耳朵主要接收日本百合衛星的三個頻道；中耳朵收視亞衛一號、東方紅一號和日本超鳥二號，共廿個頻道；大耳朵則收得到印尼 PALAPA 二號、太平洋八號和俄羅斯衛星共十五頻道。林林總總，為數將近四十。