# Longest you've ever viewed a single station **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772 "2015-04-29T03:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/21 "2015-04-29T18:35:37Z")
Not sure if this counts but I have done Star Wars Marathons were we watch all 6 movies. I did it successfully twice. Last time we tried it we had had enough after empire and bailed on Jedi. after that I didn’t try to do them all in one day. I did successful marathons of the original trilogy many many times though. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/22 "2015-04-29T18:35:42Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > No one here watched for long stretches on 9/11? The Moon landing? During 9/11 I was compulsively channel hopping hoping that someone somewhere had actual information. For the OP, most years we kept the fireplace channel on over a few days for Christmas. This year I just turned on the fireplace instead. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/23 "2015-04-29T19:14:56Z")
MST3K Turkey Day, all day long (early 90s). 9/11 on CNN, for what seemed like forever. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/24 "2015-04-29T20:13:31Z")
Weather channel during Hugo. CNN during opening bombing of Gulf War Done plenty of the “turn on Headline News while doing a marathon stint of Civilization” many, many times. Up to the reader if that counts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Richey84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Richey84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richey84)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/25 "2015-04-29T20:56:52Z")
When I was in grade school, MTV would run Daria marathons on weekends and I would find myself sitting there for a good 6-8 hours without realizing it. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/26 "2015-04-29T20:59:34Z")
I still refer to it as My Night from Hell™. I was behind on my analytical chemistry lab book and pulling an all nighter in the dorm’s lounge to catch up. The cable didn’t work and the only channel the TV could receive was some weird UHF channel that played videos upon request. You made your request my dialing some 1-900 pay number… And some heartless bastard apparently wanted an all night marathon of Lisa Stansfield’s [All Around the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVuuatjHGnY). The same video. On repeat. ALL NIGHT LONG. We stopped counting after 70+ repeats. Sadly, we needed the noise to keep us awake. And it worked. And I still can’t stand that song. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/27 "2015-04-29T23:25:05Z")
When my business partner and I first started our company we would watch TVLand most of the day. When the second airing of _Golden Girls_ came on in the wee hours of the morning, we’d crash for a few hours then get up and do it again. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/28 "2015-04-29T23:46:00Z")
I had just been released from the hospital after an appendectomy when Katrina hit. Being stuckon the couch for a couple days, I turned on the news and never turned it off for about 2 days. The whole thing was so incredibly overwhelming, and just when you thought you’d seen everything, more unsettling pictures would come in. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/29 "2015-04-30T03:42:59Z")
The Twilight Zone marathon on New Year’s Day. (But I would still change the channel during commercials.) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/30 "2015-04-30T13:36:07Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > When my business partner and I first started our company we would watch TVLand most of the day. When the second airing of _Golden Girls_ came on in the wee hours of the morning, we’d crash for a few hours then get up and do it again. Now that’s a Business model I can do! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/31 "2015-04-30T13:45:19Z")
> [@journeyman\_southpaw](#): > > Back in the days before YouTube and when 24-hour music stations actually played videos, I watched entire 12-hour loops of programming a few times. Hah, I did that once. I think I was 13 (so 1986-7) and I decided to watch 24 hours straight of MuchMusic. I was so disappointed to discover that it wasn’t 24 hours of original programming but an 8 hour(?) loop. A few years ago a truck crashed into a hydro pole near my work and knocked the power out so we all got to stay home. I spent the entire day on the couch cuddling my kitten and watching a CSI marathon on Spike. (The Las Vegas CSI, back in the Grissom days.) Best day off ever. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/32 "2015-04-30T13:55:45Z")
I remember watching most of the Planet of the Apes series as a marathon at least three times when I was a kid. On TBS, maybe? I used to also watch the “Bible movie” marathons, usually around Easter. I also used to have the Olympics on non-stop when they would have things like gymnastics or ice dancing all day. And there was a brief period of time in which I fancied myself a day-trader and would have Bloomberg on all morning… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/33 "2015-05-01T02:20:10Z")
When FXX was running every Simpsons ever last summer, I pretty much had my TV tuned to that nonstop except for a few hours here and there where I had something I needed to watch. I forget how long that was, but I know it was over a week. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOldKJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GoodOldKJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOldKJ)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/34 "2015-05-01T03:27:40Z")
Anytime there’s a major event like a hurricane or war bombings or whatever I find myself locked onto CNN just to see what’s going on and get every little bit of detail that I can. STAR WARS!!! I have watched 8 + hours in a row of professional wrestling On any given Saturday college football comes on my TV at noon and ends at 2 in the morning or later I may have some issues! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/35 "2015-05-02T00:21:35Z")
> [@GoodOldKJ](#): > > I have watched 8 + hours in a row of professional wrestling In 2000, the WWF started the pre-Wrestlemania stuff at noon, and didn’t end with the post-show stuff until around midnight, so I got you beat there. Of course back in the era of the Monday Night Wars, I’d regularly be watching 5+ hours of wrestling every Monday, but that wasn’t all on the same channel. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/36 "2015-05-02T00:59:33Z")
A couple days, about 15 years ago there were twilight zone marathons on some channel, maybe sci, over new years eve. Now with netflix it isn’t necessary but I would watch those. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/37 "2015-05-02T01:06:06Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > When the Olympics are on I will usually leave the TV on that channel for extended periods, and last time (London) I happened to be quite unwell with a lung infection so it was a welcome distraction in the middle of the night whenever I woke from a feverish dream to a bout of coughing. I had the flu during the Beijing Olympics and I couldn’t get off the couch for a couple of days. I think I had the games on the whole time. I developed an appreciation for water polo. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772/38 "2015-05-02T06:22:11Z")
I was too drugged up to remember if it was the same station, but the last time I was in the hospital for awhile, I somehow ended up watching a lot of Lawrence Welk show. It was not all that unpleasant. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-youve-ever-viewed-a-single-station/718772.md?page=1)