What are your current TV watching habits as compared to 10 years ago?

[Bouncy Ball]

Poll question: What are your current TV watching habits as compared to 10 years ago?

Do you watch more, less? Why?

[Left Is Write]

1. I watch a whole lot less TV now than I did then.

I can give you two reasons right off the bat: One is an adorable five-year-old and another is a cute three-year-old.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. I'm trying to be a better American and watch more, but I

keep forgetting to turn the damn thing on. :crazy:

I realized today that, compared to 1995, I hardly watch any at all. I used to watch TV daily back then and I'm wondering what happened.

Probably the internet. :rofl:

[Left Is Write]

5. Yes, I'd say the internet has influenced my TV habits also.

Also, I'm more selective about what I watch, though I have been known to get sucked into Brain Pablum (and I confess to a DOOL habit).

[havocmom]

3. Ten years ago, I needed respite from the hell raging in my mind

Today, I find my mind much more entertaining than TV. More voices & views in my mind than there are on TV. ;)

[Steve Nash is god 13]

4. ten years ago I was 2 years old

[Bouncy Ball]

10. ACK!!!!

[eyesroll]

6. Way less.

10 years ago, I was in college and the TV lounge was the hangout.

[VelmaD]

7. Ten years ago I was finishing up my undergrad degree...

and living at home with my folks. I watched more tv back then because I spent a lot of time watching sports on tv with my dad. We'd sit and watch the game (baseball, basketball, football, hockey...it didn't matter) while I did homework. It was great time spent with my dad. :)

But even back then there weren't a lot of shows I watched regularly. Now it's unusual for me to have the idiot box on more than an hour or two a day...I watch reruns of The Simpsons twice a day and sometime stuff on PBS. I haven't had cable in years and years.

[Nikia]

8. I barely watch television anymore

College broke me of the habit of watching television. There was no cable in the rooms and reception was very poor in the rooms as well. There was one cable television in the basement of each dorm, but people always fought over it. As a result, I almost never watched television in college.
We didn't get cable at our first place. At this place, we had to get cable television in order to get cable internet. For the first few months, we watched a few hours every evening. Then we watched only a few shows that we liked. Then we stopped watching those too. It's been a few weeks since we've turned on the television.
Ten years ago, I was a high school senior who frequently watched television after dinner before tackling homework and watched Saturday morning cartoons when I didn't have track meets.

[FloridaPat]

9. I watch TV with a laptop on my lap. So I am distracted typing comments

like this on DU. And there is so much garbage on TV now it's amazing. I thought there was a lot on 10 years ago, but it's gotten much worse.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I think that's one of the reasons I stopped watching.

I got more selective, like Left is Write said, and the more selective I got, the more I noticed 99% of it is garbage not worth my time.

[blue neen]

12. I used to watch the news on TV,

but I don't waste my time on the MSM any more.

[greendog]

13. I quit watching TV in 1976

n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

16. It must be nice having all those extra brain cells!

[sundog]

14. watch it hardly at all

just some cable news during the day in the dining room

[Huckebein the Raven]

15. About the same

:shrug:

[Kenneth ken]

17. same - didn't have a tv then, still don't. n/t

[ovidsen]

18. Watching a little less

I've never watched all that much anyway. I'm amused by surveys showing folks watching 30 or 40 hours a week of TV. Like, where the heck do they find the time???

And as often as not, the TV is background noise. I'm doing something else, like fooling around on the PC. I've had one of those for 19 years, and forced to make a choice, the TV would go.

[Bouncy Ball]

19. Ooo can't stand the background noise thing.

But I'm really auditorally weird. I can't stand the sound of commercials, especially.

I know, where do they GET 40 hours a week to watch TV? Are they doing anything else? I can't imagine. I do watch movies on DVD from time to time, but that's about it.

[ovidsen]

22. I think you are in the majority

Lots of people I know find TV, or radio, a major distraction if they are trying to do something else.

I'm blessed (cursed?) with the ability to selectively ignore background noise. It's a talent that is by no means foolproof.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Decrease to none. n/t

[Penndems]

21. We very seldom watch network television anymore

There's nothing on that's really worth watching. Those "reality" shows are just plan boring, and the comedies are funny at all, IMHO. The only programs that pique our interest are the local and national news.

We've got the premium packages for HBO, The Movie Channel, Showtime and Cinemax, so they satisfy our movie cravings (The HBO movie "Warm Springs" is just outstanding). My husband's glued to ESPN, ESPN-2 and Comcast Sportsnet during the NCAA and Sweet 16 tournaments (as am I during football and baseball seasons). TCM is one of our favorites; so is C-SPAN and the cable news channels (with the exception of Faux News). We also enjoy watching "classic TV" shows on Nick at Night's TV Land.