Is it any wonder we’ve become a nation of willfully ignorant believers rather than critical thinking citizens? Nevermind. What time does the Kardashians come on?
You will find more statistics at Statista
Despite the popularity of Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services in the United States, Americans spend more time than any other people watching traditional TV. According to Ofcom’s latest International Communications Market Report, Americans spent 4 hours and 42 minutes per day watching TV in 2014, roughly one hour more than people from the UK and Germany and two hours more than Chinese TV viewers who spent an average of 2 hours and 37 minutes watching the tube.
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OK, so the half of token Americans who vote for Democrat Morons (a redundancy) watch about 8 hours per day paid for by the Conservatives who watch about zero hours of FAP per day.
Robert – that about sums up the western world in general. But we’ve know that for a long time.
I’ll never forget going on a business trip to the US the day after Obummer was elected the last time. The guys sitting across the table from me says “You picked a hell of a day to come and see me.” He was visibly distraught.
“Au contraire my Amurican friend” I replied. “I picked the perfect day to come and see you.”
“Ya?” he says to me in that skeptical Yankee tone.
“Of course – it is important for you to hear from me – a neighbour and friend – that America has finally joined the ranks of the rest of the western world where the people who take things finally outnumber the amount of people who work for a living. Welcome to the club”
He wasn’t consoled.
Wait til Virtual Reality headsets and programming infest the public with a sickness far more addictive than TV or XBOX gaming.
Sick of your wife/job/life….put on your headset and enjoy an artificial reality of your choosing where you can exist in a world so completely different from your real life. It’s sort of a construct within a construct if you think about it, the ultimate in escapism. Ten years of that technology and people will no longer be able to tell you their real name.
Looks like a bunch of countries spend too much time in front of the telly.
The dude in that picture seems to be calling out the HSF clan!
According to cable cutter ads, 90 percent of the popular shows are on free teevee.
Dr Pangloss said, we can put 200 channels on this box (referring to a then-new 40 channel box) but who has time to watch 200 channels? No wonder the company folded soon after.
Americans love ‘moar’ of everything.
Admin, you might want to add Maggie to the list of contributors, she pulls in the numbers or maybe just the comments, what do her stats look like?
If you tried to watch tv in the uk in the 80s or 90s you would be surprised they watched at all.
Since the FCC mandated “digital” Teevee, it’s much harder to get a signal off the air (in other words, free). This is mainly because digital transmitter power output is much lower, and with digital a substandard signal just doesn’t cut it (unlike analog where the picture might be snowy but watchable. Out here in the backwaters of L.A. the only over the air teevee we get are 1 PBS station with the rest (about 25 signals) all in Spanish or Chinese. And I have a late model high gain amplified antenna with a rotator!
What a freebie to the cable companies!
@Westcoaster
you are saving your mind by the lack of access.
Yes, the change to digital was moar $ for the industry,
ever robbing us as they poison us. A two-for.
Westy, what kind of antenna and where? If you are alongside the mountains, it is a challenge as well as south east of Mt Wilson because of the hills.
Westie
I use a Winegard Flatwave Amplfied (25 mile range) ad I pick up at least 40 channels of ,better than cable tv. Super HiDef if it is transmitted but at least HiDef..
3 PBS
NBC and 2 extra
CBS and 1 extra
ABC and 1 extra
The M Channel (Movies)
Me TV
Retro TV
Escape Channel
BOUNCE
GRIT TV
THIS TV
LAFF TV
Antennae TV
JTV
QVC
SHOPHQ
COZI TV
HSN
WMYO
JUSTICE TV
KETWORLD
HSN
6 Religious Channels
Can’t remember the rest of the channels, some are from southern Indiana. We get two weather channels also. It’s all free after you pay the $25.00 for the antennae.
I never got a picture this good on cable. Add in Netflix and Fire TV (Amazon) and I have more tv than I can watch.
Bea Lever, Why watch ANY of it? Seriously!!!
Because the side channels have Bonanza, Superman, Gunsmoke and Outer Limits episodes. Cozi has old variety shows. You keep up with current events on the 3 networks and you can stream Lifetime on your Roku. Any money you save, you can send to TBP.
Polecat- I like to watch old Perry Mason episodes but most of the time I am watching documentaries on Netflix and Amazon. PBS and Perry Mason is why I have the antenna.
EC- IMO the M Channel shows better movies than you can find on cable, I hope you can pick that one up some day.
I recognize all the channels you listed, I had them during the warm weather month of October. When the weather got bad, <65 degrees, they disappeared. I just have a few strong channels now.
I have a bunch of stuff to put an antenna up in the air, just waiting for the day to take up that project.