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When I left the daylight (started night shift work) some 26 years ago, TV was the way to break up the evening. Something like,
5:30 PM national news
6:00 local news
6:30 some syndicated show
7:00 comedies, sitcoms
8:00-10:00 hour long serious shows
10:00 local news
Granted, it wasn't all like that across the board, depending on the Network and the time of the year. Further, of course, I was more or less watching up to 2004-2005 but I had long since stopped setting my appreciation of the passing of time to what was on. What I watched was more a factor of just being in the room at the time.
So how has TV changed, now that I am back in the daylight? I hear people talking everywhere about how they don't watch TV anymore except for Netflix. What is that like?
Now, two things. First of all, one of the reasons for my TV watching habit dying was because I was outside the time line. TV is time stamped; one only has to look at the commercials on Thursday, of movies opening, of car sales, for Lowe's, of what Macy's is doing on Friday to see that they are selling the weekend.
Now that I am back in the time line, I am curious......even if there is a high probability that I might end up running screaming from the room in 10 seconds.
Secondly, if any one says, "Well, if you are so curious, why don't you just turn it on?", please keep in mind that I don't have that infrastructure at all and it is an investment to build it.
No broadcast, no cable, no streaming, no satellite, nothing here.
When I left the daylight (started night shift work) some 26 years ago, TV was the way to break up the evening. Something like,
5:30 PM national news
6:00 local news
6:30 some syndicated show
7:00 comedies, sitcoms
8:00-10:00 hour long serious shows
10:00 local news
Granted, it wasn't all like that across the board, depending on the Network and the time of the year. Further, of course, I was more or less watching up to 2004-2005 but I had long since stopped setting my appreciation of the passing of time to what was on. What I watched was more a factor of just being in the room at the time.
So how has TV changed, now that I am back in the daylight? I hear people talking everywhere about how they don't watch TV anymore except for Netflix. What is that like?
Now, two things. First of all, one of the reasons for my TV watching habit dying was because I was outside the time line. TV is time stamped; one only has to look at the commercials on Thursday, of movies opening, of car sales, for Lowe's, of what Macy's is doing on Friday to see that they are selling the weekend.
Now that I am back in the time line, I am curious......even if there is a high probability that I might end up running screaming from the room in 10 seconds.
Secondly, if any one says, "Well, if you are so curious, why don't you just turn it on?", please keep in mind that I don't have that infrastructure at all and it is an investment to build it.
No broadcast, no cable, no streaming, no satellite, nothing here.
I know you have a tv becase you have an extensive library of shows. A $10 antenna solves the "no broadcast" problem.
You're posting here so you have some sort of access to internet and thus streaming tv. There are a ton of free offerings out there. You just have to look.
I know you have a tv becase you have an extensive library of shows. A $10 antenna solves the "no broadcast" problem.
You're posting here so you have some sort of access to internet and thus streaming tv. There are a ton of free offerings out there. You just have to look.
I'm posting here from work; they frown on streaming TV.
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