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Farmer Five 

Television channels available over an antenna. Traditionally in the USA these are NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and PBS, which were the only TV channels available out in the country prior to DirecTV.
- Did you see what happened on Breaking Bad?
- No, sorry, I only get the Farmer Five.
Farmer Five by Damian Yerrick December 3, 2014

Farmer Five 

The farmer five is a term that relates to the television availability in rural areas of the country.

Typically the local free access channels that gives us our weather, sports and local news.
Most often they are PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX.
The farmer five is all that is available to us in the areas where we cannot get cable, internet or not have the money for the satellite.
Farmer Five by Mrs.Chicken2 December 2, 2016