May-16-2010, 03:42 PM (UTC)
(May-14-2010, 02:47 PM (UTC))Nuytsia Wrote: Farseer I thought people would watch MORE TV when they'd had a baby.
Not me! Ahem...maybe I was doing something wrong (though both my boys were pretty high maintenance early on, due to a few medical dramas)?! I went for YEARS without really watching TV, listening to the radio or reading a book...I even missed Allan Border's last season of international cricket AND Queensland's first ever Sheffield Shield win and that's saying something (way off topic...you are a bad influence on me ...but I was an absolute cricket nut and therefore that's the best measure I have for my total lack of media immersion in those years!!).
(May-14-2010, 02:47 PM (UTC))Nuytsia Wrote: How many channels do you get total?
Growing up, I only had the one and, being out of town, that was usually fuzzy (ABC, which was all I needed for the cricket and footy anyway!). It wasn't until I reached my last year of high school that we finally received commercial television (the first show I saw was a re-run of 'Happy Days' and it was awesome to see the Fonz without having to be on holidays in Brisbane!).
Nowadays we get ABC, SBS, Impara and Seven Central (though, as we are out of town and have satellite television, we do also receive inter-state versions of ABC and SBS eg we can watch a show on Qld ABC but, if we miss a part of it, we just have to wait a few hours and can then view it again on Western Australian ABC !). In saying that, we can't watch a thing when it rains (which is very annoying seeing as how cricket season coincides with our wet season!!).
Everywhere on the coast/down in the south-east corner etc receives ABC, SBS, Channel Nine/Win (I thought they were the same?!), Channel Seven and Channel Ten (as well as all the rest of the free-to-air digital channels you can now get with a new HD TV set - ABC2, ABC3, GO! etc).
Sorry all...it's Nuytsia's fault !!!
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