How much TV do you watch?

I answered "I don't watch TV, but I watch videos" because I don't. I really don't. I have a TV, but I don't have cable. I don't even have an antenna! The only reason I have it is to watch movies from the video store, and then I'm very selective about what I watch. I used to watch 6 hours of TV a night, every night. But one day, I started questioning the content of the shows I was watching and asked myself if it was worth having to endure fourteen consecutive asinine commercials three times an hour in order to view that content. I finally woke up and realized the content was garbage, and I had learned to hate advertising. I turned the TV off and have probably watched less than 10 hours of TV in the last five years. I went through withdrawal, but once that was over, I realized how refreshing and wonderful it was to get the garbage out of my life. Especially the incessant liberal brainwashing that passes as "news". I am free now to think for myself. Thank God!

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They don't call it the "idiot box" for nothing!

A corollary poll might be "How much time are you on the computer? [per week]"

Could be interesting...

I have never really been a big fan of T.V. My passion has always been reading non fiction.

Life's to short for TV

Now...If they bring back Peewee's Playhouse????

I like the history channel and discovery... What the heck happend to TLC, The Learning Channel!!!!!! Its now the what to wear and my house is a mess so come clean it channel!!!!! So very very wrong... it used to be a good channel...

I answered 1 to 5 hours...

Hi Charles, do you remember me (now that you are a big shot) ? Just kidding. I hope people appreciate this poll you started. I hope they understand the importance of why you probably started this poll. So many people when asked how much tv they watch, immediately answer with "oh I barely ever watch tv". However, these same people will be the first to tell you all of the details of all of the sporting events. They will also spend hours telling you about all of the sitcoms etc. My observations have shown me that people do not want to let others know how much time they spend watching tv.

I was lucky enough to listen to a very successful person speak at a conference once. When I say he was successful, believe me, he was very successful. He was a great motivational speaker and everyone listened to his every word. They all were trying to figure out what were his secrets to a successful life. This was evident by the questions that were being thrown at him. He looked us all in the eye and said, "if you want to be successful, shut off the tv". At the time (this was many years ago), he said the average tv viewing time was about 38 hours a week. He said that is like a full time job. He said wake up people and please shut the tv off. He was almost mad, he wanted all of the people in the room to be successful too. I never forgot his words.

In the poll I answered 1 to 5 hours. Just to be clear, my tv viewing time is just over 4 hours a week. I am not questioning anyones honesty or integrity in the forum. I believe we have a great group here. I just thought it was important to not overlook this post as just another thread or just another poll. Please take the time to answer honestly and take the time to do some self-evaluation as it relates to your tv viewing time. Take care all. Great post as usual Charles.

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"Television, the drug of a nation."

Can you remember that song by a rapper in the nineties.

I answered 1-5 and it is probabaly at the upper end of that. CSI Las Vegas is the show my wife and I will both record and then find a time to watch together. Other than that one, I might find something cool on the History Channel, and if i want a laugh watch an episode of Mythbusters ;-) We will rent a DVD and watch it together on Wednesday evening as a time set aside for popcorn and a movie alone. All in all, we have a sytem and don't let the "idiot box" control our lives, which is a change from many years ago when I know it did!! We have cable TV channels only because it was mandatory with our cable supplier if we wanted cable modem s e r v i c e. We have all access to the outside world via the cable, TV, Internet, and Phone s e r v i c e (vonage.com)...no MaBell hook up.

When we lived on the south pacific coast of Costa Rica we had no TV as I stopped watching it years ago and sure as hell didn't want it in "paradise". In the begining this was a sore point with my teenage son. As we were driving home one early evening he looked over at a home we were passing and remarked "Look Dad, they don't even have a door and they got a TV."
He now watches very little TV, maybe 3 hours a week. Spends his time on the computer now

Well I watch some sitcoms, it's true, but no news, no weather, no tv-shows... I preffer to enjoy the beach, forex , my wife , in stead of tv

I do spend around 1-5 hours I think. But I just watch to help me stop my mind from thinking..

I'm an over-thinker..

P.S.
I now dislike commercials more..

I hardly watch TV now that I got interested in FOREX


I'd rather learn more about it than waste my time watching garbage on TV
so I probably spend less time now than ever and most of the time I watch Business Televison here in Toronto

You people need to get with the program! (Pun intended!)

24 is the best show out there...

Blasphemy I say! BLASPHEMY!!!