Zero, except some baseball and college football. Didn’t even watch the super bowl this year.
I think the threads helped since we had a week to chew over and dissect each episode and guess at what would happen rather than just hitting Next.
I’ve been trying to catch the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars every year. Sometimes the Golden Globes. Browns games on Sundays, sometimes an Indians game if it’s on a local broadcast channel, or OSU football.
I’ll watch political stuff if PBS has it. Otherwise without cable I don’t get much.
Every so often I’ve got like 20-30 minutes that I have to wait at home for something and I don’t feel like firing up a Netflix show or whatever, so I’ll turn on PBS or one of those in-between digital channels for classic TV shows. Probably only 4 hours a year of that.
There’s still a lot of fantastic programming on non-cable networks. I just prefer to watch them “time shifted” like most people.
I assume that “live TV” means anything that is being watched as it is broadcast, as opposed to recordings or On Demand.
I keep rather strange hours (except for weekends and every other Friday, up at 5 AM, and usually in bed around 9 PM), so my “live” watching is limited, but it’s pretty much CNN in the afternoons, and on Saturday (and Friday, when I’m home) mornings, and whatever I normally watch that’s on before 9 AM, which, right now, is pretty much limited to The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers on Sundays, Batkid-er, Gotham on Thursdays, and Fresh Off the Boat and The Cool Kids on Fridays. (If I’m not working that Friday, I’ll also watch The Orville as it airs.)
Correct.
I watch the Oscars and the four men’s professional golf majors (O.K., maybe the Players Championship too) live. Everything else is through DVR, streaming or On Demand.
I started out just wanting to improve my sleep hygiene, which was messed up when my bedtime was determine by when shows aired. Over time, and as viewing options increased, I found that it was much easier to choose what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Occasionally I realize that a show I was waiting for has been airing without me knowing. But overall it’s great not to be tied to a T.V. schedule.
We cancelled our cable subscription a couple of months ago for exactly this reason. All we do nowadays is stream content anyways.
I normally watch and hour of the news in the evening while I’m cooking dinner and then as we eat. Lately I’ve been hoping to catch commercials for my tv show so I’ve been watching Discovery for an hour after the kids go to bed. I try to catch Meet the Press live on Sunday but probably have a 50% hit rate due to having a life. So we watch maybe 10 hours a week of live TV.
Since we’re up in the mountains we don’t get any broadcast channels but we have a broadcast+ subscription with our cable company that gives us broadcast tv plus the discovery channel for $20/month which works out ok.
Well, the Super Bowl, one or two games of the World Series, the Olympics. Election night returns and presidential debates. That’s about it.
I watch the news live in the morning while getting ready for work. And I watch “This is Us” live every week it’s on. Other than that, I usually on-demand the shows I watch from Comcast, or watch stuff on Amazon Prime.
I don’t stream to a tablet or my phone though. I don’t understand why someone would watch things on a little screen instead of a big TV.
Our daughter walked in while my wife and I were watching House of Cards on an iPad. She told us we could through it up on our big TV in the same room. That was a game changer, no doubt about it. I still have no idea how to do it, so we just call her in to make it happen when we want to stream to the real TV.
99% of what I watch on TV is sports, and I watch them live. So for me, the answer is “99%”
The Seahawks during football season, and the third season of Kim’s Convenience on CBC. That’s it. Everything else is streamed.
I wish we could get CBC’s streaming service (GEM), but it’s not available to the US. 
I watch a lot of PBS in the evenings. Thursday nights PBS is all home improvement stuff that I’m not interested in for the most part so I watch BBT and the shows that follow on CBS until the cop show comes on at 10:00 and I switch to a secondary PBS station that shows foreign English language news programs. Weekend evenings I listen to the local NPR station’s music programming or watch Netflix or HBO. A lot of the time that the TV is on, if I’m not that interested I’m also on the internet.
Very close to zero.
I just bought a new DVR and was testing it out yesterday using an antenna hookup. This was the first time I deliberately watched live TV in a while and then only for a few minutes.
Re: Sports. Mrs. FtG watches Her Team’s games the next day on the DVR. Just as good as live as far as she is concerned. Problem: The idiot at the gym who keeps talking to her about last night’s game despite being told a hundred times not to do this.
Once you accept that watching DVRed sports is just fine, live TV viewing goes down quite a bit. Forget the “DVR-proof” claims.
(I still have the Super Bowl on the DVR and haven’t watched the 2nd half yet. Don’t tell me how it ends. ;))
Green Bay beat Kansas City 35-10.
I watch tons of Broadcast & Cable TV shows, but almost 100% of that is recorded on my DVR so I can watch at a later time with no commercials. It has nothing to do with streaming or Netflix. I’ve had a DVR since, I don’t know, early 2000s?
The only things on TV I’ll watch live as they air (other than if I just have the TV on in the background) are *actual *live shows like the Oscars, Emmys, football games, etc.
I don’t watch anything live except baseball ( and I’m not really watching that, it’s background noise) - even network shows that I watch the same night they air I record and delay watching by at least a half hour.
Really just sports
I feel like the unrepentant carnivore attending a radical vegan conference while wearing a leather coat.
I watch tons of live TV. I cut the cord but have tons of streaming options… many of which include live TV, and also OTA antennas. I guess I like to be on top of what is happening instead of having to avoid the thread about what happened on a certain popular show until I get a chance to watch it in a few days, or have to avoid conversations at work about who the Bee was. Other times I treat it like mental potato chips… rather than thinking about what I’ve been wanting to binge on I’ll just see what happens to be on… sort of a TV roulette. There always seems to be something that will catch my interest, or at least interesting enough to have on in the background. We also watch our fair share of DVR’ed programs and random things on Hulu, Prime, Netflix, etc.
Some people have music on all the time… I have video on all the time (Jimmy Fallon right now).