6 Replies to “Not Watching For The Asteroid”

  1. there’s comfort seeing that old tv set – sort of nostalgic – i once had that very model. i watched the pbs moyer/joseph campbell series with it – my favourite episode was “the masks of eternity”.
    now i’m a lot older and i don’t have a tv. in a couple or three decades i expect i will be very much like the creature on the screen. my grandmother used to say that “it’s very important to enjoy your time on earth and use it well because you will be dead for a very long time”.

  2. Sounds like the networks still rely on the old folks that watched Ed Sullivan, Laugh-in, then Mary Tyler Moore, then MASH, then Rhoda….. now I guess Oprah… the polling ages don’t surprise me.

  3. I’ve got one of those. Do you mean I have to consign it to a landfill site?

  4. The whole television scene has changed since those early Dumont/RCA Victor days. While us boomers are still watching TV, the watching habits have changed dramatically. Chances are us oldtimers will be more likely to be tuned into Fox News, CNN, ESPN, TSN, Discovery and Nat Geo rather than ABC, CBS or NBC (insert CBC and CTV as required). Throwing a DVD or BluRay into the machine is also an option that was never even considered back in the dim times. I think you will see the big networks going the way of the dodo bird long before television itself dies. Actually, with the advent of the internet and computer technology, the TV as we knew it will continue to morph into an intigrated media/information/entertainment package.

  5. Cam: Sounds like the networks still rely on the old folks that watched Ed Sullivan, Laugh-in, then Mary Tyler Moore, then MASH, then Rhoda….. now I guess Oprah… the polling ages don’t surprise me.
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    I’m one of those. I put my TV in storage a while back and I doubt I will ever take it out again. For me, it’s all blogs/internet/YouTube, etc. all the time. Goodbye old media.

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