In the old days, you could only watch the TV shows which were received with an antenna. Later. cable came along and you didn’t need an antenna. Now many people are getting rid of cable and going back to antenna. However, now you don’t have to be limited by what your antenna can receive. There are many streaming options for TV content which you can use along side your TV antenna.
When I got rid of cable I hooked my antenna up to my DVR, but I didn’t end up watching it as much as I though. Instead, I watch a lot of content over Hulu and Netflix. My antenna is mainly used for local broadcasts, nightly talk shows, and other shows which aren’t available on my streaming channels.
My question is, for those of you who watch TV over antenna, how much of your TV viewing is from shows you receive from antenna? Do you mainly use the antenna or are you using other streaming services?
And to clarify what I mean as “TV content”, consider it as anything you watch on TV, not just the current shows being broadcast on the networks. Watching old reruns on Netflix, DVDs, Amazon movies, etc, would count as TV content in this case. In the past your TV time was spent 100% watching what was coming over the air. Now, your TV time is spent watching a wide variety of content, only a subset of which is currently being broadcast.
With the exception of The Americans (the only “prestige” show I watch), Shameless and House of Lies, all of the episodic TV I watch is available via OTA. I do, however, also watch a shit-ton of basketball and wrasslin, but I can get what I need for that from online subscription services.
I voted less than 25%. The only broadcast show that I am currently watching is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and I watch that on my tablet using the ABC app. I have to wait a week after it airs, but I’m OK with that.
We watch sports OTA sometimes, but not that often. I recently found that I can stream the MLB.tv free game of the day in HD using my smart TV, which is nice since there doesn’t seem to by any OTA baseball anymore, at least in my area. Every once in a while we’ll turn on Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy.
We have Netflix and Amazon Prime, so we have plenty to watch. The kids like Youtube as well.
I have cable and that’s where I get my baseball fix. However, the TV in the bedroom is hooked up to Roku, a Blu Ray player, and an antenna for OTA channels. They’re a little strange, those extra OTA channels. A couple of channels in Austin play stuff like MASH, Hogan’s Heroes, Night Court, Charlie’s Angels, etc. One of them plays a lot of Wives with Knives type shows like Snapped.
I don’t watch a ton of TV, but it’s fairly split between DVDs, Netflix, and broadcast TV (most of which is either Create or MeTV, neither of which is appointment TV but full of things I find interesting to pass the time with).
None really fit my situation. I get basic cable, which is primarily broadcast TV from local stations, plus gems like MeTV, Comet, and Grit (the latter three are not available via regular cable, and I get them because I don’t use a cable box). There are also a half dozen cable stations, plus Netflix and DVDs.
Most of my episodic TV is from local stations: NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, the CW, and PBS.
I watch 20-30 NFL and college football games per year, the Cleveland Indians’ home opener game (they used to have 3-5 games on broadcast per year but that’s all they have now), maybe a political thing here or there or a Cavs basketball playoff game…but that’s about the extent of it.
Every once in a while I find myself with nothing to watch and Antiques Roadshow is on and I consider it a major score!
I wasn’t’ sure exactly how to vote, so I didn’t. All of my TV watching is recorded, and I record shows, not channels. I suspect that some of the shows I record are on the local channels but I have not checked. I also do quite a bit of ‘watching’ with Netflix, on Roku and the internet.
Things are very different from what they were when i was growing up. Just a couple of channels and lots of wrestling and boxing.
I might watch 15-30 min of antenna TV per month. The rest is online. The wife might watch college football if it’s available, so maybe a bit more for her if it’s football season.
I don’t have cable, but do have netflix.
Most of my watching is OTA, either live or recorded (I have a OTA DVR). I do watch an ocasional show (very few movies) on netflix, and watch Game of Thrones via DVD (thus I am one season behind). I might get a movie via redbox once in a whole.
My DVR is also my digital converter, as I sill have an analog (CRT) TV.
But I do also have a 720P front projector which I will watch select TV shows on (and is my exclusive DVD/BluRay viewer)
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