You're Watching Less TV 769
NickFusion writes "With a plethora of online games, chat, IM, email and, well, Slashdot, who's got time to watch television? Evidently, not men ages 18-34. The NY Times (free reg, etc) takes a look at the issue and comes to conclusions that will shock, I say shock, the average Slashdot reader. Meanwhile, Fox Broadcasting Corp. is calling for a recount. Disclosure: I'm quoted in the NY Times article, and so is one Rob Malda. Mom will be so proud!"
Mr. Spector's a w... (Score:5, Funny)
Mr. Spector sees things a little differently. The missing men grew up with a joystick in hand, he said, and computer games have grown up with them.
No comment necessary.
Demographics... (Score:5, Funny)
Not me (Score:3, Funny)
I sit at my coffee table with my laptop and a wireless card...the TV is almost always on.
Re:No hurry.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Demographics... (Score:5, Funny)
Mom will be so proud (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe if TV wasn't directed towards women (Score:5, Funny)
Big stations thought they had it right with reality TV but that certainly drove more women to the small screen but moved men away from it. Now we're playing more video games than ever and hating TV. At least there aren't ads in the middle of my game.
Mythtv is where I waste my time (Score:5, Funny)
I spend so much time making my TV and video viewing time more productive that I don't have much time for actually watching TV.
As a side benefit when I do sit down to watch some boob tube it's on my terms (no advertisements) and on my schedule.
Re:No hurry.. (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks...
Re:Demographics... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No hurry.. (Score:4, Funny)
On my screen (1400x1050 on a 15.1 laptop screen), this is about 2 CD high... Unless these CDs are DVDs, that not a very impressive number of episodes!
Quality journalism (Score:3, Funny)
With insight like that online, who needs television?
Next they'll tell us that nobody visits the least popular sites.
Re:No hurry.. (Score:3, Funny)
Bring back BayWatch (Score:5, Funny)
Plotlines? Well, if you insist, but they aren't central to the show. Try and limit it to stuff like: "Pam gets injured while undergoing a bikini wax. Other cast members lend support."
Chip H.
Re:Online (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute, did you just make an argument for reality TV? Nooooooooooooooo!!!!
Damn.... (Score:2, Funny)
Ah the irony (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I think this is a bad strategy. I'm ripping and distributing 7th Heaven [thewb.com] in an attempt to get it off the air. So far, no luck. No downloads either. I think the ideal TV audience is the techno-illiterate.
The Boob tube indeed.
Still watch Seinfeld (Score:2, Funny)
BTW... The Sopranos BLOW. The whole premise of the show... where somehow, this cold, ruthless, sick bastard Tony somehow has become some kind of pop 'hero' to the gazillions of people who watch it is pretty sickening. Somehow it seems to equate to 'the bad guy wins, and this is good...', and that's not good no matter how you slice it.
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Middle-aged office secretaries. Every office has a gaggle of them where all they do is talk and gossip about who's getting voted off, fired, etc. The thing is, they think everyone watches it, as if it's really something to do.
"OMG, you DON'T WATCH JOE MULTIMILLIONAIRE?!"
"Uh, no. You ask me this every week."
"Yeah, but that show is GOOD."
"...you're lonely, aren't you?"
Basically it gives them something to look forward to in their otherwise meangingless lives.
Re:Demographics... (Score:2, Funny)
TIAA is suing the internet and... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Trolling? Or just thieving? (Score:5, Funny)
I feel *so* guilty thinking that the networks soon won't be able to produce shows like Survivor, the Bachelor, Train 48 and that show with the toupeee guy... Donald Trump.
Fox News (Score:3, Funny)
No, but I'm not surprised that the company that owns Fox News is blasting the research.
Conservative Organization Blasts Research Which Hits Its Business Model!
Vows to Fund Own Research to Prove Liberally-Biased Researchers Wrong!
News at 11:00!
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What's on TV? (Score:5, Funny)
* Real World - network executives get young kids to the point of alcohol poisoning and videotape them for your amusement
* Fear Factor - out-of-work hollywood actors line up to eat bugs for your amusement
* Tough Crowd - Colin Quinn and his buddies validate your racist tendencies
* The Apprentice - A dozen yuppies compete to get close enough to see if Donald Trump's hair is actually a new, sentient life form.
* American Chopper - All of America tunes in each week to see if this will be the show where Paul Jr. hits Paul Sr. over the head with a tire iron.
* Rush Limbaugh - Only in America can the Vice Presient of the United States be seen calling in to an Oxycotin addict's tv/radio show.
* Seinfeld - A "show about nothing"; of course it will be a huge hit. Each week we anxiously look forward to an entirely new paradigm shift in obsessive-compulsive behavior.
* The Osbournes - Watch burned out rocker being slowly driven crazy by his own family.
* X-Play - This is a show that's all about Morgan Web's sweater pies, but I think there's a side theme of gaming, but I'm not sure.
* Almost everything on WB - Lame urban sitcoms that have revitalized the laugh track industry.
* Survivor - Amuse yourself by watching Mark Burnett dangle rice and toilet paper over the heads of starving, back-stabbing media-whores on a deserted island.
* Law and Order: SVU - It's like Dateline NBC with worse acting.
* Will and Grace - Yet another show about 30-something beautiful single people. I just can't get enough of homo/hetero-erotic lust triangles. Rumor has it, Mr. Roeper will return during sweeps week.
* CSI: Miami - Someone died; someone's hiding something; someone's an arrogant/evasive prick; someone's hair is in the wrong place. Not since CSI: Topeka, CSI: Fargo and CSI: Van Nuys has CBS come up with an intriguing, compelling and creative series.
* American Idol - Innovative show involving no-talent hacks (who have slept with the right people) criticizing no-talent hacks.
I'd write more but it's time for the Jimmy Kimmel show.. gotta go.
Re:30 and no TV (Score:3, Funny)
After reading the above, I'd say you're being modest.
Obvious Solution (Score:3, Funny)
The legal workweek needs to be cut down to twenty hours maximum. That way, we will have time to spend watching dead media like television.^-^
Re:Fox... Why am I not surprised (Score:3, Funny)
I want to know what the traffic is when I am driving. That generally happens in my car, not at my desk.
Re:Demographics (Score:2, Funny)
Calvin: Mom, why would someone pay money to talk to a lady in her underwear?
Mom: WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT?
Calvin: Ummm, Saturday morning cartoons?
Re:Trolling? Or just thieving? (Score:3, Funny)
As well as you should, soon only the rich who can afford vanity producing will be able to produce television shows. You'll get shows like "Survivor" (hosted by Donald Trump), "The Most Eligible Bachelor" (starring Donald Trump), and "Starsky and Trump" (starring Tom Cruz as Donald Trump).