Who doesn't have TV anymore???? I'm doing a survey.

[growlypants]

I am just wondering how many of you guys dont have TV anymore (I basically mean cable, because regular TV is worthless anyway, there are no channels). I turned my cable off 3 months ago and never looked back. I went from TV on all night (I left it on when I was asleep, it's a whole mental disorder thing I think. Dont like to be in total silence...my thoughts sometimes drive me nutso....TV distracted me. I guess I "think too much")to no TV whatsoever. Now I leave Air America streaming all night, but I'm sometimes kept up all night because by the time Mike Malloy goes off, I'm usually FURIOUS! I think that we libs/lefties are more likely NOT to have TV than the repugs. Hence, we are more intelligent.

[Roland99]

1. No cable TV since last November

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. I've never had cable....

Never missed having it.

[war-hater-joe]

11. what happened to air america

No Tv at all, just sirius satellite radio, which I bought for Air America. Now I don't have them, they took the money from Rufurd Murdock XM satellite , and left us Sirius subscriber holding the bag.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. I don't know....

Don't have satellite radio either. Sorry you paid money to get it and now don't have it.

[growlypants]

18. you can stream them on the net. I do it all day long.

[war-hater-joe]

29. streaming

Streaming not that good, I live in a rural area, and when I stream them I disconnect more than connect, that's why I bought sirius satellite...

[newyawker99]

46. Hi war-hater-joe!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[PSPS]

3. No TV at all since 11/2000

The day after the election debacle in 2000, my TV stopped working. I considered it some kind of sign. I expect that if or when the country escapes the clutches of the criminals now in control, it will magically start working again.

[castiron]

4. i watch the daily show via internet downloads and that's it

no tv for years and years. I always made it a point to watch Sex In The City when it was on at a friend's house.

[growlypants]

10. does comedy central offer stream for the daily show ???

Where do you find that becuase I'd love to watch the daily show. One of the few shows I actually miss (South Park and The Shield the other two)

[fishnfla]

5. Who needs a TV? There are 15 threads about CNN right now

Then again, if all these DUers say "turn on CNN now!" Who needs DU?


Maybe I'm dead wrong, but I haven't watched TV for over 2 and 1/2 years now.

I see people busting a gut over these shows that are made to pull their strings and I laugh

[growlypants]

20. could you post here a link to one. I'm dumb with computer stuff

[Ladyhawk]

6. Nothing since last September.

I can't afford to pay for crap I don't want to watch.

[NJCher]

7. quit watching a long time ago ('02 elections)

Occasionally turn it on for an Alfred Hitchcock. If I can get the agreement of another in my household, I'm ready to disconnect the cable.

I'd so much rather download some podcasts or listen to music.


Cher

[Darkhawk32]

8. I have a TV, a 4 year old, a 2 year old and a wife... so I have no TV.

:rofl:

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. Gave my NEW TV away a few months back

.
.
.

hadn't unpacked it from moving over a year ago

so . . .

gave it to a neighbour

and gee golly

my life goes on!!

[West Coast Democrat]

12. You guys are missing Jon Stewart's Daily Show...

that show alone is worth owning a TV for!

[Nikia]

13. We got rid of our cable television

to save money last fall. We finally got the cable company to allow us to have cable modem without having cable television. They strongly objected to that, but we rarely watched it anyhow. We watch movies sometimes though.

[peekaloo]

14. no cable BUT I have a friend who tapes The Daily Show for me.

Makes me larf, keeps me sane.

I still "sleep" with the TV on.....usually PBS. :shrug:

[earth mom]

16. No cable for the past year.

But we do get a few channels-nbc, cbs, abc, pbs and fox. We usually can find something we want to watch because dh and I are reality show addicts and also like pbs a lot. We watch the local news but I usually want to pick up the t.v and throw it when dh watches the network news! LOL! :argh:

[spuddonna]

17. You forgot to add that we're "more attractive..." :)

We turned off our expanded cable about 5 months ago, just get basic so we can get local channels (too many hills to get good reception otherwise). We only used the expanded cable to watch Jon Stewart; we'd stopped watching CNN, figured we'd save some $$$...

[Stephanie]

19. Never had cable

Wrestle with the tv. Once in a while I banish it from the house.

[DemGirl7]

21. I still watch TV

But I don't watch any of the basic channels, I don't watch the big news networks, since it's republican controlled, I only mainly watch C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, Comedy Central(only for the Daily Show and Reno 911) History Channel once in awhile and Cartoon Network for Adult Swim, thats about it. At night,I spend it online.

[European Socialist]

22. Went from expanded basic to basic last winter....

don't miss cable news channels at all-still get C-Span, PBS and networks. I watch C-Span the most.

[Bobbieo]

23. Who doesn't have "cable" anymore

I have not had cable for several years now. Tried it during the sumnner special a couple of years back and gave up. How many times can you watch Sandra Bullock as "Miss Congeniality"?

I got it 25 years ago when it was $10 a month and kept it for years until I got sick of the repeats. Now the service is $46.00 per month. On regular TV I only get 3 stations and guess what? I watch the 5:30 pm national news and that is all. One half hour per day.

I'm a retired print media journalist and spend most of my time writing on the computer. I have a column I update every two or three days and for freelancing, am currently editing a novel

[growlypants]

28. I have to have the MOST basic form of cable in order to

have a cable modem. I tried to JUST have the cable modem and TOTALLY cancel the cable tv part but the would raise the price of the stupid cable modem to meet what you were paying when you had cable tv too. Its a total scam. Comcast is totally raping us.

[growlypants]

34. from one newbie to another......welcome aboard!

[growlypants]

36. WOW. I didnt know this many people in the WORLD didnt have tv.

I thought I was the only one (well, my parents are still living in the stone age. They have a dial phone still if you can believe that. Takes an hour to dial 911). I'm impressed.

[dweller]

38. welcome to DU, Bobbieo!

:hi:

point us out to your column, we're a media hungry bunch here.

(If it's in your sigline, i don't see sigs....on a dialup).

dp

[Habibi]

24. Pretty much no TV since Buffy went off the air

We do have cable internet, so I can get C-Span, and video clips from the Daily Show, etc.

I get my news from DU now.

[dweller]

25. No cable over 2 years now, approaching 3 ? ...

or is it over a year now approaching 2?

i've lost all sense of time. :crazy:

Huge ice storm through the state took it out, i told them to forget hooking me back up. Mother nature did me a favor.

IF and when they get around to letting me choose the few channels i want, and pay accordingly, i'm not interested.
dp

[wovenpaint]

26. No TV since last August

I only watch movies on mine now-I use the internets for everything else.
Nothing on anyway-waste of time...

[tnlefty]

27. Will you even consider "specific TV"?

I have satellite and I watch c-span, c-span2, LinkTV, FreeSpeach TV and I will sometimes watch the Chinese news and BBC news in the early a.m.

My kids watch Animal Planet, Discovery, National Geographic, History International and the History Channel(sometimes).

Link and FreeSpeach have some excellent documentaries on that my kids watch with me that are much more informative than the History Channel, and 2 of them regularly watch c-span with me, even while getting ready for school, etc., so it's difficult for me to just turn it all off.

[growlypants]

30. ok, thats good...all educational and intelligent stuff. You're in

[Psyop Samurai]

31. No tv at all since early 2003...

...when I clearly identified the enemy in a war that had been waged against the American people and the world.

Why would I allow a deadly enemy in my home?

[youngdem]

32. As of right now I am down to one, with rabbit ears:)

[raccoon]

43. Same here with the rabbit ears.

I haven't had cable for years.

I don't watch much, local news and stuff on ETV sometimes.

Sometimes I watch network news (usually NBC) to see what they're covering (or not covering).

[WorseBeforeBetter]

33. I'm down to the basic cheapie cable. Between internet and cable...

I was paying about $100/month (thanks Cox!) for TDS, Keith Olbermann, and Law & Order:SVU re-runs. Now I catch TDS online, read Keith's blog, and get my crime/forensics fix through CSI re-runs on Spike.

[greendog]

35. I quit watching TV in 1975...

...when I was a high school sophomore. I've never owned a TV.

[growlypants]

40. Now THAT'S truly impressive (no sarcasm here, I'm serious!)

[never_get_over_it]

37. Sounds like me

I have a tv and cable but it hasn't been turned on in over two weeks and the only reason it was turned on then was my nephews were visiting. Except for West Wing and a few home improvement shows my tv is almost never on - but my internet to Air America and other liberal talk shows is on almost all the time including while I sleep however I tune to Bernie Ward once Mike Malloy is over unless I've already fallen asleep which is most of the time since I'm on the east coast.

But I'm going to have to turn the thing on at 11:00 tonight!!!

[growlypants]

39. what happens at 11:00 tonight???

[never_get_over_it]

41. CNN is going to replay the special that aired earlier eom

[MetaTrope]

42. I stopped watching TV about 15 years ago

And 90% of the DVDs I watch aren't in English...

47. foreign movies

I just watch tv mainly in winter time, not always a greater reader, so tv helps with boredom when can't get outside enough. Those reruns of "everybody loves raymond" at night really make me want to throw the tv out.

I also mainly get my kicks from foreign films. They seem to be sexier and more about real life than the american blockbusters.

[tuckessee]

44. No TV at all since 1997.

I occasionally see some TV at friends and relatives homes but I have so many negative comments about the programming that the boob tube usually gets extinguished shortly after my arrival.

[DelawareValleyDem]

45. No cable in ten years

[hexola]

48. If I could buy cable internet WITHOUT TV - I would...(nt)

[Patiod]

49. No cable just on principle

Don't like the monopoly.

Unfortunately, Air America in Phila. sucks - it's on only 6 hours a day.

[OnionPatch]

50. Sorry

I'm pretty down-to-earth...I grow our own food, am active to protect the environment, etc. but I like TV and I'm not about to give it up. Sure, most of it is garbage right now but I have hope for the future of television. Even now, as biased as it is, there are plenty of really great things on TV. I just program my clicker to block out all the offensive stuff (FOX News, etc.) HBO is totally awesome. Current shows a lot of pods that dig into the truth of the world. LINK tv is all lefty stuff. TV isn't going to go away. I admire you who turn it off but I'd rather support the GOOD TV so when people do turn it on, there will be something decent and informative to watch.