Watching TV

I voted 5-7 hours. Usually, I watch the 10:00 News each night. Sometimes, I'll watch movies on channels like HBO. If I think about it, I might watch Whose Line Is It Anyway at 9 on weeknights. I will usually watch at least the first half hour of Satuday Night Live. But a lot of times, I'll switch around to the music channels (anything from VH1 to Arena Rock type music channels.) I've also recently got started watching channels like the Discovery Channel and National Geograpic channel.
 
0-4 hours. I am making adistinction here between "watching TV" and "having the TV on". I often have the TV on a news station while I am working on other stuff just for background noise. All I really watch is the news, though ocasionally movie will pop up that seems worth watching (latest good movie I have seen is "Kingdom of Heaven"....worth seeing if you have not). I loathe spectator sports, "reality" TV, and most modern "horror" movies, which are no longer scary, just yucky.
 
I used to watch television perhaps for a couple of hours every day - usually the news and an occasional movie.

But when it got to the point where I found myself arguing with the TV, shouting at it, and even planning to buy some vitriol to throw in its 'face', I decided to cut back to only a few minutes - watching just the news headlines and the weather forecast.
 
I watch no television, maybe 5 minutes a month.

This however does not include tv series I download 9 months before they screen here without advertisements.

TV is just awful when you have broadband, what's the point. Though I can understand if you are in the US and you actually get to watch things when they first screen.
 
10 hours is not much TV. Two movies and the nightly news will take that easily.

I'm curious why the link you posted merely brings one back to this thread. What's the purpose there?
 
You know, actually, it reminRAB me of a line from a Bruce Springsteen song called No Surrender

Maybe there should be a poll for how many hours a week do you spend listening to music. My vote would be: More Than You...or something like that.
 
The link actually goes to his reading poll.

Television is a big disappointment. I used to watch science shows on PBS but my reception has gotten poorer due to a fast growing maple tree in my yard. I like the tree better so have pretty much given up on any viewing.
 
It would be interesting to see if TV watching is going down because of computers. Someone said they had the TV on in the background which is what I tend to do but I get more of my news online now. If you took a poll about how much time I spend on the computer it would be around 6 hours a day atleast. In fact, this LCD screen at work will probaby fry my eyeballs out before I die :(
 
0-1. I give the hour to what I happen to hear, not watch, before my wife puts her heaRABet on. I agree with Symbiote in that with broadband, who neeRAB talking heaRAB and the other poor fare offered by the tube.
 
wait. Wouldn't that be 28 hours a day of TV and computers???

Even 14 hours a day for both combined seems like a lot, since that leaves 10 hours away from the TV and computer. You figure 8-9 are for sleeping, so 1-2 waking hours of non-TV or computer watching???
 
I would like to watch more than the present zero to possibly four hours I watch a week, but American TV is so depressingly icky.

The whole spectrum has been devalued by the sleazy programming of Rupert Murdoch and his Fox media, not to mention his parent corporation, The News Corporation, which manufactures news.
 
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