How many of you watch broadcast media or even TV anymore?
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Excluding when I'm away from home and someone else's TV is on, never. I pulled the plug on all things follyweird around a decade ago in all forms (broadcast, cable, optical disc and never bothered trying this new fangled streaming thing the kids on my lawn are going on about - it's still the same crap in a different package). Nothing I've seen since then has made me regret doing so in the least. Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form definitely made doing so easier. :-\
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Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form
I never have. :zzz: I don't see the point in it. Reality TV is unreal - so I've heard; I never have watched it. News TV is unreal - so I've heard; I only used to watch the BBC and no longer even that since the 80's. I can't sit through sitcoms since they are not com at all. I could go on but my favourite show isn't on TV anymore.
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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I watch broadcast TV all the time. I guess you're just better than me.
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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It seems I'm the only old fashioned TV watcher here, a lot of Dutch television but that's more because the wife watches it, personally Dutch soaps and series always disgusted me X| During our vacation in Denmark we even watched some German television, yes no subtitles, everything dubbed in German !
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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lopatir wrote:
in particular free-to-air TV)
There is no such thing! 30% of air time is commercial therefore a 30 min. sitcom is 10 minutes of ads and if you got paid for the time that you sit through these mind numbing ads would it be worth your time. Not mine!
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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Nope. We dumped our cable TV a year or so ago, reducing our monthly bill from $185 to $65 (Internet only now). Mrs. Wife still watches one broadcast channel occasionally. I watch Netflix or Blu-Ray/DVD.
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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Nothing live - ever - unless, as others have pointed out, I'm at somebody else's place and the TV happens to be on. Even then, that's when I get re-acquainted with how horrible live TV has devolved into. As if commercial breaks weren't bad enough - now you have in-your-face animated TV station logos, and promotions for other shows on network TV taking up the lower third. My main source of TV shows to this day remains Usenet, and I have no moral qualms about that - I always end up purchasing those series I enjoy, and because of such posts, I've discovered (and purchased) more series than I ever would have otherwise.
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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lopatir wrote:
- don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L)
I'm exactly the same! Are you my long-lost twin brother, or something?
lopatir wrote:
the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports
Well, so much for that idea. Running around fields chasing balls is a job for dogs.
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question... I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.) - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want) - don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit - don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt) Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L) yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports (of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...). we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream) in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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Bought my house in the US in 2006 and decided not to get cable. I used to study a lot; so no time for that nonsense. Today, I do watch TV, but it's all through a HDMI cable from my laptop. I watch mostly YouTube, a little NFL Brady, and some of the NBA finals. I also download and watch movies from Putlocker. The problem of not watching network television is I no longer feel part of the American culture. I do not understand why people cry victim, equal pay, racism, equality, and just out right hate speech, because I see the exact opposite in society.
