With more and more video-on-demand options emerging every day, it’s remarkably easy to have a large slate of television to watch without ever turning on live TV.
How much live TV are you watching these days?
Personally, with the sole exception of live sports, I’ve not watched live TV in at least a few years.
Man, I don’t even watch live sports - other than the Superbowl. (Don’t watch much sports anyhow, just the occasional golf.) Anything I want to watch, I’ll record it and wait long enough (20 mins per hour or so) that I can FF thru the ads.
zero. unless maybe i’m just craving background noise, but in general i don’t watch live tv at all
We watched the presidential debates pretty seriously in 2008 and again in 2012. We watched the 2016 debates half-heartedly.
Other than that, we have not watched live TV at home. I watch a ton of Netflix and Amazon Prime content streaming on my tablet. When we are out at a bar, I tend to stare at whatever is on the television (lately hockey).
Hardly ever unless I’m staying in a hotel.
Pretty much only things that actually are live, like sports and SNL.
But my SO watches a lot of “live” TV: MSNBC, Turner Classic Movies, other movie channels, occasionally the Game Show Network…
She’s the type of person who’ll watch a movie if it comes on TV (even with commercials), even though we have that movie on a DVD that we haven’t watched in a long time, if at all.
Almost no live TV for me too. Everything gets recorded and played back without commercials. I like watching a baseball game in about 90 minutes. I’ve become good at knowing when to start watching so I’m caught up and “live” by the 9th inning.
None. My wife canceled the cable TV and moved to all streaming. I suppose, come election time, I’ll watch the debates online. The last show that was “appointment television” for me was Mad Men and that was partially based on the weekly SDMB threads and being able to participate in Monday morning chatter.
See, I binged MadMen start to finish and really enjoyed it. I cannot imagine watching it on TV as each episode aired.
Yeah it’s almost painful to watch live TV now. Seems like there are more commercial breaks now than ever, and they’re longer. Not to mention the modern convention of shows, even those NOT of the “reality” variety, previewing scenes both before and after the breaks, which is ludicrous to me. Why the fuck are you showing me stuff I’m just about to see? They even recap scenes you just saw seconds ago. I end up watching the same “dramatic” scene like 4-5 times an episode. If I couldn’t skip that shit I’d be throwing the TV out the window.
Sports and news. That’s about it. Even the Food Network is DVR’d for later.
Very very little, and only if I happen to stumble across it; never planned. No sports, no news.
The only thing we watch as it airs is Survivor and baseball. I read my news online, never watch it.
Zero. The dog watches an over the air channel while I’m at work (usually PBS or Laff), but I turn it off as soon as I walk in the door. 
I watch something about every other night.
We watch the local news and weather every morning using our rabbit ears antenna. When I’m sick and spending all day on the couch, I’ll sometimes watch reruns of old sitcoms (Gimme a Break, Facts of Life) on ThisTV. That’s about it.
I loathe sports, hate talk shows, don’t believe anything on the news, detest all politicians, and haven’t watched SNL since Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo left. So my answer is, none at all.
About 10-15 minutes of local news in the morning while we get ready. Occasionally we learn something about the commute, the weather, or the world that we didn’t know.
Perhaps an additional 3-5 hours per month of broadcast TV. For example, we watched two hours of the Oscars broadcast and the recent Rent broadcast. We have watched a few minutes here and there of Jeopardy, a sitcom, or Antiques Roadshow when we’re too lazy to decide between Netflix and Amazon Prime. Otherwise, it’s all streaming or we just read.
I watch 10 or 20 minutes of the local news once in a great while. That’s it these days. All my viewing is Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or YouTube.