# How much live TV do you watch these days?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 28, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338 "2019-02-28T15:51:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/42 "2019-03-01T05:03:13Z")
Unless I’m on a road trip watching TV in my hotel, I don’t watch live TV at all. I’ve seen my lifetime quota of TV commercials, thank you.
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### Author:  [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/43 "2019-03-01T05:23:38Z")
The closest thing with any regularity is SNL, and even that is DVRed most of the time. I catch glimpses of sports but I’m not a sports guy.
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/44 "2019-03-01T05:40:34Z")
None, other than visiting relatives who have the TV going and I might watch a few minutes. I don’t own a TV.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/45 "2019-03-01T09:49:03Z")
I watch the news, mostly for local weather and traffic. Occasionally I’ll have it on as background noise. I have never in my life had cable. Gave up satellite, oh, nearly 20 years ago. Happy to have a broadcast antenna.
When I actually want to be entertained it’s Netflix, Amazon video, or my extensive collection of DVD’s and, yes, VHS tapes (I still have and use VHS. I also still have vinyl records and a turntable). Or I borrow DVD’s from the local library.
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### Author:  [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/46 "2019-03-01T12:59:54Z")
None at all, since 2011, except in doctors’ offices where they inexplicably have to have daytime TV turned on at loud volumes. And sometimes at relatives’ houses.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/47 "2019-03-01T22:40:11Z")
Basically just sports events, or the occasional “must see in first run to avoid spoilers / be in on the fantalk ASAP” types of shows, like “Game of Thrones”, or season opening/finale episodes of a show like “Doctor Who”.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/48 "2019-03-02T00:02:11Z")
> [@robardin](#):
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> Basically just sports events, or the occasional “must see in first run to avoid spoilers / be in on the fantalk ASAP” types of shows, like “Game of Thrones”, or season opening/finale episodes of a show like “Doctor Who”.
Heh, you know, it’s been off for so long that I completely forgot about it! **Game of Thrones** I \*do \*watch live. There are no commercials and it’s on late enough that I’m done with whatever I was doing during the day.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/49 "2019-03-02T23:10:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Green Bay beat Kansas City 35-10.
I’m still hoping that Len Dawson gets a Superb Owl ring someday.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/50 "2019-03-03T00:35:48Z")
Only the occasional premium cable tv show episode, and only when there are no commercials and I’m dying for the next episode. Game of Thrones, Counterpart, John Oliver; stuff like that. Most of the time I’m time-shifting it by minutes with my DVR; starting at like 9:05 instead of 9pm, or maybe pausing for a bathroom break. Watching it legitimately, actually live without ever pausing is _extremely_ rare.
Other than that I DVR everything, including sports. Especially sports. I watch NY Giants games in 50-60 minutes each, and the only other football I watch are Jets games (35-40 minutes each), playoff games (45ish minutes each) and the Superbowl (2 hours.) If I couldn’t FFWD through refs discussing something on the field I would throw my remote through the tv.
You know how there are two announcers in the booth for a game: the play by play guy and the color commentator guy? I almost never hear color commentary as I FFWD to the next play. I still don’t know how Tony Romo is as a color guy despite having watched multiple games he’s called.
So since I went to DVR in the early 2010s, essentially nothing.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/51 "2019-03-03T00:46:02Z")
The news are on in the morning while i get ready for work. About 15 minutes total.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/52 "2019-03-03T03:35:39Z")
Football. I will again when it’s baseball season. Every now and then I don’t feel like putting any thought in and I will channel surf. But most of the time no, I’m either watching something on the DVR or something streaming.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/53 "2019-03-07T03:00:45Z")
Virtually none. When my mom was alive we’d record CSI, Fixer Uppers, and Grey’s Anatomy and begin watching them at 15 past so we could fast forward through the commercials. But in the three years since she’s been gone I can probably count on my fingers the number of things I watched the night they aired. This year there wasn’t even a Dr Who Christmas special to add to the count.
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-live-tv-do-you-watch-these-days/830338/54 "2019-03-08T01:48:31Z")
ZERO. I cut my DirecTv 6 months ago. Catching up on my dvds and a few vcrs. Just finished binge watching The Americans 6 seasons - excellent.
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