I only watched Qubo at my grandma's house and at my mom's friends house since they didn't have cable.
Nowadays you don't need PBS or Qubo if you don't have cable since everyone has streaming.
Yeah, that was just the old days before Netflix and stuff. I had the reverse situation of you, I watched public TV at home and cable at other people's houses. You can't actually watch Qubo anymore as they shut it down on February 28, 2021, almost two years ago. I think the channel was on its way down already before then; it started having infomercials instead of Qubo Night Owl on January 7, 2019, effectively making the channel cease to be a 24-hour network. I started watching Qubo less during the day, sometime between 2012-2014, as that was the time they started adding new shows and taking old ones away. I would still watch it at night longer, until I got cable in 2016, because I thought the shows in the night were better.
In my opinion, February 18, 2012 was the turning point in Qubo's history, the one moment that would begin the wane in my Qubo viewership habits. The beginning of the end. This was when the first Dex Hamilton ads came on, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Then my favorite shows, like 321 Penguins and Pecola would become less common on the network as they had to make room for new shows. I will admit I REALLY liked some of the new shows like ToddWorld, Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, and Archie's Weird Mysteries, and they were great additions to the network, but there were also shows I didn't really like like Denver the Last Dinosaur. Then some of the shows I watched in preschool started leaving the network entirely. Boo! and Maisy were early casualties, being removed on June 29, 2012, but other shows would get removed over the years. By the last week only two of the shows of the original lineup, Jane and the Dragon and Babar, were still around. I'd say Qubo hit the point of no return in 2019, when the channel ceased to be 24/7 and Mike the Knight got added! I hate that show's art style so much.
Okay rant over lol.