There was an article I came across about cord cutting, and someone was talking about how they'd cut the cord "except for my wife who loves HGTV." The follow-up question that I feel like never gets asked is "Are there one or more programs on <%Network> that you actually watch, or do you treat it as either a background or default channel that you put on if there's nothing else on?"
When I visited my brother-in-law and his family after Christmas, they would regularly put on whatever Discovery Channel subchannel that seems to air nothing but Mythbusters or HGTV and just leave it on, without having any sort of deliberateness to it. Someone would simply watch whatever aired on that channel, regardless of what it was. I don't know if anyone's actually done research along these lines, but I do wonder how many people keep cable for background channels. On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:48 PM Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re/code <http://recode.net/2016/01/22/would-you-pay-36-a-month-for-espn/> > (link): Investment analyst Michael Nathanson came up with what a list of > what the best-known channels would be asking *IF *they chose to offer > their products in that way, which, of course, ain't happenin'... they don't > include OTA nets, whose fees are right in there with the cablers, and of > course, ESPN's figure is in the ionosphere... > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
