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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 16:55:18 EDT
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:50:43 +0200, you wrote:
>Funny, just last night my girlfriend mentioned that moving aboard with me
>instantly cured her of a several hour a day TV habit. She says it didn't
>hurt a bit.
>
>I was doggy sitting for a friend of mine last month and I noticed that my
>addiction came back, and hard. Flipping on the toob was the first thing I
>did when I got to his place. On the boat I just always have other things to
>do.
>
>TV is for people who don't have boats.
>
>> I have no TV for more than 7 years now. Your mind, spirit,
>> body and family
>> would benefit. If you are a news junkie, read newspapers.
When I was a girl, we didn't have TV - radio took its place - I listened to
the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, Ozzie and Harriet, Jack Benny etc on the
radio. Eventually my grandfather gave us his old set (with a screen about
the size of my laptop screen and with a big magnifier in front) so we could
watch "What's My Line". But we didn't watch anything else much.
As a result, whenever I was at the home of anyone who had a TV, I was not
good company. I used to go to my boyfriend (now my husband)'s house and he
wouldn't be able to get my attention no matter what he did if the TV was
on, no matter what was on there. I had no access to TV while in college,
and we didn't have one when we were first married either. We didn't get
cable until about 1984 - Bob always said we didn't need it, and thus we
were doomed to watch snowy TV because we are pretty far out in the country.
Now that we not only have TV, but have cable at the house, I watch mostly
non-network broadcasting, like the Weather Channel, Discovery, Outdoor
Network, etc. I watch local news and weather also.
When we are on the boat, we can get broadcast channels on the dual voltage
TV/VCR. I like to look at local weather to supplement the NOAA forecast.
I miss the weather channel. We also listen to the radio.
Some friends have a "Follow Me" antenna, which they really love.
As far as cable companies and satellites - When I stay with the children
that have a satellite, I miss the local weather (and news, but I can get
that on the radio if I want).
I've had experience with several cable companies - some of them are very
good, some of them are OK, and some are awful. When I say they are awful,
I'm thinking about my mother's cable company which was charging her extra
for a cable box that she hadn't needed for years, and which has the local
channels only in her small area and not those in a closely adjacent city
which has a greater range of channels. Also all the network channels are
on the cable with different numbers than the original broadcast channel,
which means that the things they broadcast on those channels are often poor
quality. (i.e. if the broadcast channel is Ch 2, it comes in on the cable
as Ch 12, and anything on the cable Ch2 is sometimes poor quality.)
grandma Rosalie
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