I haven't had a TV in ten years.

Excluding YouTube, I only watch TV or other streaming services once or twice a week, and usually just local news or a special event like the Billy Joel concert.

I’m all in on audio (including podcasts) and physical magazines and books.

Now.

I subscribe to a couple of internet streaming services, most notably MHZChoice who offer (subtitled) European television programs and movies where social engineering has not reached the sublime. Yet.
 

The time of life when I don't watch TV has been most of my adult life.

At 11 every night I sit down and watch the news. After that, I make a drink and, for the next 30 minutes or so, I watch whatever my wife happens to be watching. Usually some mindless game show.

The exceptions have been for major news events like a moon landing or an election night.

The last TV show I regularly watched on TV rather than via a streamer was Mad Men.

Last edited by Hansa (April 16, 2024 8:25 am)

I watched the least TV during my university years.
Then it was mainly the news at night.
I was heavily involved with CITR UBC radio and between that and my studies and seeing friends, (and girl friends) I felt no need to watch TV shows at all.
These days I don't watch much mainstream TV.  I have a few streaming services and I watch a few regular TV shows using Bell On Demand.

 

Shorty Wave wrote:

As a teenager I went to boarding school and I didn’t watch tv for the 6 years I was there. Oddly enough I ended up working in television, go figure.

I was the same, in college enrolled in the broadcast course (Radio/TV) and not watching television.  I did listen to a lot of radio however.  

Even at my first job after college didn't watch television.  My apartment was furnished and had a portable black and white TV.  Living in Thunder Bay, the only stations I could get off air were CHFD (CTV), CKPR (CBC), TVO, and one station from Duluth Minn.  Didn't have cable. 

I remember watching a Leaf game one Saturday night when I was sick, and oddly enough watching Peter Gzowski's late night talk show.  The only reason I remember this is because he introduced a new comedian that nobody had ever heard of before.  Robin Williams.  I remember Williams was incredibly funny and unique.  Gzowski was laughing so hard, he could hardly talk, and the studio audience was roaring the whole time.

So like you, I went about six years and rarely watched TV.  Even though I majored in broadcasting and was working at a radio and TV station.   I had heard about all these great shows 1975 to around 1981 but watched almost none of them.  But I think when you are in your late teens and into your mid 20's even back then this wasn't rare.