TV: How do you watch TV?

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Galieo:
True, but I have found that baseball is probably the easiest sport to follow listening on the radio, which frees me up to mow the lawn, play with the children, etc. Plus, its on during the summer which is the best time to be outside.

Now football…that is another matter. 😉
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I second that about baseball. If you have a good broadcast team doing baseball, it works very well. Football, there is just something lacking. There is only so much you can say, cleanly, to describe players, hitting, tackling, and running on the radio.

Besides, the commercials during the World Series were just suggestive. The guys in the Men’s group this morning were telling me all about it.

go with God!
Edwin
 
I pretty much have EWTN on all the time.

Sometimes I watch **The Apprentice ** (just so I can observe how others behave in business, so I can learn how to NOT tick people off at work).

You can see clips here. Including the different commercials made by each team as tasked to advertise for people to join the New York Police Department. They were tasked to “hit people at the heart” with whatever ad campaign/commercial they were going to make.

VERY different commercials made by each team. One militaristic, one not. Guess which one won?

(I’ll give you a hint… the one that did NOT show New York as a Police State." Yikes!)

apprentice.tv.yahoo.com/

Sometimes I watch 30 Minute Meals, just so I can imagine myself cooking a really great meal in less than 30 minutes. I call that “entertainment.”

foodnetwork.com/food/show_tm/0,1976,FOOD_9997,00.html
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"The difference between fiction and reality? 
Fiction has to make sense."  
-- Tom Clancy
 
Veronica Anne:
I pretty much have EWTN on all the time.

Sometimes I watch **The Apprentice ** (just so I can observe how others behave in business, so I can learn how to NOT tick people off at work).

You can see clips here. Including the different commercials made by each team as tasked to advertise for people to join the New York Police Department. They were tasked to “hit people at the heart” with whatever ad campaign/commercial they were going to make.

VERY different commercials made by each team. One militaristic, one not. Guess which one won?

(I’ll give you a hint… the one that did NOT show New York as a Police State." Yikes!)

apprentice.tv.yahoo.com/

Sometimes I watch 30 Minute Meals, just so I can imagine myself cooking a really great meal in less than 30 minutes. I call that “entertainment.”

foodnetwork.com/food/show_tm/0,1976,FOOD_9997,00.html
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"The difference between fiction and reality? 
Fiction has to make sense."  
-- Tom Clancy
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Good Morning,
I like the Apprentice also…saw that episode…I thought the right person was fired…

I watch 30 minute meals…maybe for the same reason 😃
My favorite cooking shows are Home Cooking with Paula Deen and the Barefoot Contessa.
One of my favorites tv shows is ‘Bounty Hunter’ on the A&E chanel 👍
 
how di I watch tv? well what else with my eyes!😛 :rolleyes: :dancing: :whacky: :rotfl:
of course the tv is on and those eys are open! 😉 I just couldnt pass that one up.
 
we pretty much stick to the 2 E-channels, now that EWTN is on DSS. when hub is at home, well, it’s ESPN. If Mother Angelica starts hosting golf tournaments or Fr. Corapi buys a football team, that may change.
 
I have a satellite dish but rarely have time to watch TV. Usually, the TV is on to provide white noise while I do something else. I keep it tuned to CNN, ESPN, TLC, or Animal Planet.
 
I sold my one and only tv a few months ago. Not only do I save the cost of cable, but I also do not waste my life away staring at a screen. I do go on the internet (obviously that’s where I am now), but feel that is more active than just watching TV. Since I do not own my own computer, even that is limited.
 
Cable, to watch MASH, Star Trek, and various other shows/sitcoms that happen to be on, DVD’s, VHS’s, etc.
 
I watch the TV the Frank Barrone way…

Pants open & unbuckled with something nearby to snack on! 😃
 
we have three little girls…7 yrs, 5 yrs and 14 months. we don’t have a TV. let me be brutally honest, however, i could easily be a TV junkie. that’s why we keep our old TV in storage closet far from any power outlet. when we used to watch TV, i could find so many additional things in life to worry about…(e.g. what was going to happen to carol on the next episode of e.r., who shot JR…)

i really do feel like mass media is corrupting our families and relationships in a way that is grossly ignored by modern society. parents and children alike are constantly exposing themselves to unrealistic programs that give them unrealistic standards by which they unconsciously measure their real lives. no wonder we are not as beautiful as jennifer aniston…she spends two hours in the make-up chair getting her face painted before she goes on stage… no wonder we are not as perky and energetic as chandler on ‘friends’, he is doing drugs before taping the show.

well…enough of my ranting. most of you don’t have TV’s either anyway. i’m preaching to the chior. sorry!
 
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Stef:
we have three little girls…7 yrs, 5 yrs and 14 months. we don’t have a TV. let me be brutally honest, however, i could easily be a TV junkie. that’s why we keep our old TV in storage closet far from any power outlet. when we used to watch TV, i could find so many additional things in life to worry about…(e.g. what was going to happen to carol on the next episode of e.r., who shot JR…)

i really do feel like mass media is corrupting our families and relationships in a way that is grossly ignored by modern society. parents and children alike are constantly exposing themselves to unrealistic programs that give them unrealistic standards by which they unconsciously measure their real lives. no wonder we are not as beautiful as jennifer aniston…she spends two hours in the make-up chair getting her face painted before she goes on stage… no wonder we are not as perky and energetic as chandler on ‘friends’, he is doing drugs before taping the show.

well…enough of my ranting. most of you don’t have TV’s either anyway. i’m preaching to the chior. sorry!
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I don’t think you are just ‘preaching to the choir’. There are those here who still like watching television, and I am sure these people are strong enough spiritually to handle what is broadcasted today. Then, there are those who just don’t want televison.
I am in between, I will watch but VERY selective, but my life isn’t centered on watching tv. Watching tv, is low on my priority, but it is there if there was an emergency that I needed to know more information about. TV is a tool, it is what you do with it and what you watch that is important.
 
Karl Keating:
I watch TV with the power turned off. I find it’s better for the mind.
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Our children gave us a Tivo and a DVD burner so we never watch anything simply by chance - we program the Tivo for season passes and we see all of Masterpiece Theater and History and almost everything on EWTN like Grodi on Journey Home, the Papal Wednesday noon so we will always have seen his last appearnace – we never miss anything. We hardly ever just turn on TV and we have no TV downstairs - not even in the family room. You want to watch TV? You have to go up to the loft and make a committment to watch. Unless you are sick in bed and then you get a clicker and anything that makes you feel better!
I have small tv on my deskby my computer for the stock market. That’s a necessary evil. I need to learn to cut to the chase and answer these questions in 10 words or less. I am new at this. Terry
 
Karl Keating:
I watch TV with the power turned off. I find it’s better for the mind.
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You miss EWTN and the animal Channel?:eek: God Bless
 
I got rid of my TV in 1984 and haven’t had one since. What a nice difference in my life. The only TV I watch is vicarious when I happen to walk past one in a store window or one is playing in my direction in a restaraunt or bar.
 
We got satellite with TiVo built-in a few years ago. It’s nice to be able to record programsn when I’m in the middle of homework and something I wanted to see comes on. Last week, though, I forgot to set the timer for one of the shows, and found myself with an extra hour of time that night :o.

Eamon
 
Soul Amp:
I installed an eject button on my remote…
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Why? To eject yourself into the next room when something totally lame comes on? 😃

Eamon
 
I like it late at night and preferably turned on. Watching the screen is not fun!

God Bless–JMJ
Laura 🙂
 
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