General Discussion

My wife has never watched television news and opinion. I quit in disgust shortly after 9/11/2001.

Then we quit cable television, mostly because it was too expensive and we weren't watching it.

The last broadcast television show we watched was the finale of Chuck which was January 27, 2012. We moved our television shortly after that and didn't even bother to hook up an antenna. Our current television isn't programmed to receive any channels or connect to the internet.

Over the years we've tried a couple of streaming options -- dongles, "smart" blu-ray players, etc. -- and I don't recommend any of them since they all try to sell you advertising supported television now.

For a few years we were only watching DVDs we rented or bought in thrift stores. Sometimes we buy new DVDs for movies we especially like. We have a large library of them.

One of our children, home from college for a break, set us up with Netflix. We usually subscribe to one or two other streaming services in addition to that. When we get bored with a streaming service we quit.

We don't watch any television with advertising. Any advertising that moves or makes noise is banished from my computers too. I've come to find television advertising intolerable. If I can't make such advertising go away from a place I simply don't go there.

I blame "traditional television" for both Reagan and Trump. It needs to die.

Our grown children and their cousins pay no attention at all to television or radio as we knew it. They only care about their internet connections.

My wife and I have always been more interested in reading than television. Our television budget is about $35 a month. I try not to think about how much we spend on books, magazines, and newspapers. Our e-books have probably saved our house from collapsing under the weight of them.