Do people still watch "live TV" with commercials as they air on television?

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

We watch MeTV or Comet at night, which are both mostly older shows we enjoyed growing up or in our early adult years. Comet does the cool scifi shows like Sliders, Quantum Leap, X Files, etc, and MeTV has older stuff, like Buck Rodgers, Star Trek (OG series), Lost in Space, and Kolchak, and Svengoolie. We sometimes watch the news, but it's just annoying anymore, and the regular stations don't have much on that we even like with new shows, so we rarely watch them.

We watch Svengoolie sometimes. I like it. The movies are terrible and Mystery Science Theater worthy of riffing, but I actually like Svengoolie and the information he'll give about the actors and the corny jokes. Sometimes we may watch Comet. Watched Quantum Leap through it. I saw it sometimes as a kid, but finally saw it in almost its entirety last year. Same with Sliders. I watched it up to a point when it originally aired, but finally saw more episodes after the brother showed up (forgot his name). I'd stopped watching regularly back then after Jerry left. Interesting seeing the final episode of it.

[MrPliggins]

Sometimes I'll sit and flip channels for a bit, but I very seldom watch anything in its entirety before flipping away.

[CyberCubed]

Do people still channel surf? Back in the 90's nobody knew what was on TV unless you had TVGuide (my parents had a subscription so they always had that book every week), and you just turned on the TV to see whatever was on.

Nowadays due to the internet everyone can easily look up when a show is airing or what type of shows are airing, but there's like no reason to just flip through channels anymore. There's like 500+ channels and nothing good on most of the time.

[MrPliggins]

I only have a digital antenna, not 500+ channels, more like 10. I suppose I could look up shows, but I don’t care enough to plan it out like that. Usually I do it when I’m waiting on someone or something, just to kill time.

[Leo656]

We just mute the commercials, or if it's on DVR we fast-forward through them. This really isn't that big a deal.

[Prowler]

Personally I only do it when there's a live football match on terrestrial TV. Sadly more and more football matches air in paid subscription channels. I don't subscribe to any of those.

So mostly during the Euro, World Cup and some Chanpions League and Europa League matches if my club is playing.

There's only one break during football matches anyway. 15 minutes between the first and second halves. So it's not like I get that many commercials.

Now, the last time I watched a movie or a TV show on TV?! I don't remember. Couldn't even tell you when they air anymore. I just watch stuff on phone or the computer nowadays. And it's been that way for a over a decade.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

We watch Svengoolie sometimes. I like it. The movies are terrible and Mystery Science Theater worthy of riffing, but I actually like Svengoolie and the information he'll give about the actors and the corny jokes. Sometimes we may watch Comet. Watched Quantum Leap through it. I saw it sometimes as a kid, but finally saw it in almost its entirety last year. Same with Sliders. I watched it up to a point when it originally aired, but finally saw more episodes after the brother showed up (forgot his name). I'd stopped watching regularly back then after Jerry left. Interesting seeing the final episode of it.

Me too. I've been watching lots of stuff on MeTV lately, including Svengoolie, Sventoonie, Toon in with Me, Batman (1966), Star Trek, etc. Love it.

And yeah, I still watch live TV with commercials. Prefer it that way.