Mickey Hoyle#questiontime : would you rather watch your country's #public #television or your country's commercial television? Or not tv at all?
Ninah Marie 🍅 (Yes, this one.)@MickeyHoyle I don't have a television :)
Almost 16 years now.
Inactive (SoE)@MickeyHoyle CBC is pretty okay, I'll watch it on line and continue to not own a TV :-)
@somethingeloquent yes, I think have to make myself clear that I don't consider owning a television set, which is just another screen, fundamental to watching tv.
peter hessler - inactive@MickeyHoyle all TV is shit. i haven't regularly watched since 2006.
@phessler is there anything you do watch then?
@MickeyHoyle sports (baseball). occasionally movies, but almost never in the theater.
Klaus Stein@MickeyHoyle Germany: For news and other kind of information: public TV (or no TV at all). Other stuff (shows etc): depends.
The German public TV has regional and special interest channels where they sometimes try new things/ideas and some of them are great. But there are also some few commercial channels where they try crazy fun stuff ;-)
The German public TV has regional and special interest channels where they sometimes try new things/ideas and some of them are great. But there are also some few commercial channels where they try crazy fun stuff ;-)
@Lapizistik here in The Netherlands commercial stations rarely broadcast documentaries or shows with a political/social/societal theme. Mainly just game shows and sponsored concepts.
@MickeyHoyle There are political talkshows on German commercial TV, but I prefer nit to watch them (on the other hand I prefer not to watch most political talk shows at all as they are not insightful but make me angry. There is one exception: the Presseclub (public TV), where (mostly newspaper) journalists are invited to talk about one topic once a week).
Michael A. Zekas@MickeyHoyle Definitely commercial, though preferably Internet-delivered channels for more unique content. I couldn't think of anything memorable from U.S. public television since the peak of their educational programming in the 90s.
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